AIDING OR ABETTING VIOLATION OF PRECEDING

SECTIONS.

Every person who knowingly and intentionally aids or abets any person in the commission of any felony denounced in the three preceding sections, or attempts to do any act therein made felony, or counsels, advises, or procures, or attempts to procure, the commission thereof, shall be punished in the same manner and to the same extent as the principal party.--(Rev. Stats. U. S., Sec. 5427.)

FALSELY CLAIMING CITIZENSHIP.

Every person who knowingly uses any certificate of naturalization heretofore granted by any court or hereafter granted, which has been or may be procured through fraud or by false evidence, or has been or may be issued by the clerk, or any other officer of the court without any appearance and hearing of the applicant in court and without lawful authority; and every person who falsely represents himself to be a citizen of the United States, without having been duly admitted to citizenship, for any fraudulent purpose whatever, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (Rev. Stats. U. S., Sec. 5428.)

PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL COURTS OF

NATURALIZATION.

The provisions of the five preceding sections shall apply to all proceedings had or taken, or attempted to be had or taken, before any court in which any proceeding for naturalization may be commenced or attempted to be commenced. (Rev. Stats. U. S., Sec. 5429.)

CHAPTER 927.

AN ACT

CONCERNING NATURALIZATION AND REGULATING THE PROCEDURE IN CASES OF NATURALIZATION IN COURTS OF THIS STATE.

BECAME A LAW JUNE 5, 1895, WITH THE APPROVAL OF The Governor.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

COURTS HAVING JURISDICTION.

SECTION 1. The Supreme Court in the respective Judicial Districts and the County Courts in the respective counties of this State shall have jurisdiction of declarations of intention, and of applications of aliens to become citizens of the United States; no other court or courts now or hereafter established by this State shall entertain a primary or final declaration or application made by or on behalf of an alien to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, or have or entertain jurisdiction of the naturalization of an alien; nor shall any clerk of any such court or courts receive any such declaration, application or papers.

PRIMARY DECLARATIONS OF INTENTION.

SECTION 2. Primary declarations of intention of aliens to become citizens of the United States may be recorded and filed in the Supreme Court in the respective judicial districts and the County Courts in the respective counties of this State at any time, and the requisite and prescribed oath administered by the clerk of the court at the time of such recording and filing; a complete record of each and every of the said declarations shall be entered in the proper docket of the court by the clerk thereof, which said record the alien shall subscribe, or cause to be subscribed, and he shall also add, or cause to be added, in writing, the street and number of the house in which he resides, and the name of the

city, town, village or other place where such residence is situated; provided, that where the street and number, as required by the provisions of this section of this act, cannot be given, the place of residence shall be described with sufficient accuracy for identification.

FINAL APPLICATIONS OF ALIENS.

SECTION 3. Final applications of aliens to be admitted to become citizens of the United States, made in any of the courts of this State in which, by the provisions of this act, such applications may be made, may be filed in term time or during vacation; but final action thereon shall be had only on stated days, to be fixed by rule of the respective courts; every application shall be entered on the docket of the court on the day on which the application shall be made; such application shall be in the form of a petition, subscribed and verified by the oath of the applicant, and shall be filed in the court to which it is presented AT LEAST FOURTEEN DAYS before final action thereon shall be had; the petition herein provided for shall state the place and country of the birth of the petitioner and the time and place of his arrival in the United States, the grounds on which he claims the right to be naturalized, and shall set forth his name in full, his age and occupation, the name of the street and the number of the house in which he resides, and the name of the city, town, village or other place in which such residence is situated, and the name of the person or the names of the persons whom the said applicant intends to summon as witnesses at the final hearing upon his said application, together with the street and number of the residence or residences of such witnesses; simultaneously with the presentation and filing of the petition herein prescribed and provided for, there shall also be filed an affidavit of a person, who must be a citizen of the United States, and who may or may not be a person whom the petitioner intends to summon as a witness at the final hearing upon his application to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, which said affidavit shall set forth the full name, residence and occupation of the affiant, and that the affiant is a citizen of the United States and is personally well acquainted with the petitioner and that the said petitioner will have resided for five years within the United States, and one year within the State of New York, immediately preceding the return day of the petition, and that during that time the said petitioner has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same, provided that

in applications made pursuant to sections two thousand one hundred and sixty-six and two thousand one hundred and seventyfour of the revised Statutes of the United States, it shall be sufficient for the affiant to swear to the length of residence or service required by said. sections respectively, and in applications made pursuant to section two thousand one hundred and sixty-seven of the revised Statutes of the United States, and any amendments thereof, the affiant shall also declare his belief, with the grounds therefor, that for the portion of the two years next preceding the return day of the said petition that has elapsed at the time of its presentation, it has been bona-fide the intention of the petitioner to become a citizen of the United States; provided, that in applications where the street number, as required by the provisions of this section of this act, cannot be given, the place or places of residence shall be described with sufficient accuracy for identification; and provided further, that none of the provisions and requirements of this act shall be deemed to dispense with, nor shall they or any of them dispense with, the evidence and proofs; or other requirements, provided for and required in cases of naturalization under, in accordance with, and by virtue of the provisions of the revised statutes of the United States and the laws of Congress.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION.

SECTION 4. Every person who may or shall hereafter make application in any of the courts of this State, in which by the provisions of this act such application may be made, to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, shall give notice in writing of his application to the clerk of the city, town, village or other place where he resides, or, if there be no clerk, then to the officer or person performing similar duties in such place of his residence, AT LEAST FOURTEEN DAYS before the final hearing upon his application, as aforesaid, which said notice shall contain his full name, age, occupation, residence and the name of the court in which his said petition has been filed and is pending; it shall be the duty of such clerk, or other officer or person, to make and preserve a complete record of all such notices in a form convenient for public inspection, and to give each applicant who has given such notice a certificate that the provisions of this section of this act have been complied with, and this certificate shall be filed by the said petitioner in the court in which his said petition is filed and pending determination before final action thereon shall be taken by the court.

POSTING OF NOTICE.

SECTION 5. The clerk, or other officer or person performing similar duties, of the city, town, village or other place of the applicant's residence, shall, within seven days from the receipt of the notice prescribed in the preceding section, post in at least two public places in such city, town, village or other place, the date of the receipt of the notice, the name of the applicant, his age, occupation, residence and court in which his petition is pending, on lists, with blank forms containing the following headings :

Date of Receipt of Notice.

Name.

Age. Occupation. Residence.

Court in which
Petition is
Pending.

RECORD OF FINAL APPLICATIONS.

SECTION 6. A record of every final application to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States shall be kept by the clerk of the court in which such application shall be made, and shall be open to the inspection of the public, at reasonable times and upon proper demand; such record shall contain the names of all applicants, arranged alphabetically according to their surnames, and also the residences of the said applicants; it shall further state the nationality of each applicant and the form and nature of the application, whether based upon a preliminary declaration of intention or upon a petition founded upon and made in accordance with the provisions and requirements of section two thousand one hundred and sixty-seven of the revised statutes of the United States, and any amendments thereof, or otherwise; and it shall further state the name of the witness, or the names of the witnesses, summoned by the said applicant and appearing upon his final application to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, with the residence or residences of such witness or witnesses; a return shall be made annually by the several clerks, on or before the first day of February of each year, to the Secretary of State, of the full name and residence of each and every person so naturalized and admitted to become a citizen of the United States during the year prior to the first day of the preceding January, together with the date of such naturalization and admission to citizenship; and the returns so made shall be filed and