Repeal of Citizenship Status to Alien Seamen who Have Only Declared Intention to Become Citizens: Hearings ... Seventy-second Congress, First Session, on H. R. 6710

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Page 6 - of section 4 of the Act of June 29, 1906, entitled "An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization and to provide a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States...
Page 57 - States in any competent court, and shall have served three years on board of a merchant vessel of the United States subsequent to the date of such declaration, may, on his application to any competent court, and the production of his certificate of discharge and good conduct during that time, together with the certificate of his declaration of intention to become a citizen, be admitted a citizen of the United States...
Page 57 - ... declaration of intention to become a citizen, be admitted a citizen of the United States; and every seaman being a foreigner, shall, after his declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States, and after he shall have served...
Page 7 - All licensed officers of vessels documented under the laws of the United States, as now required by law, shall be citizens of the United States, native-born or completely naturalized; and upon each departure from the United States of a cargo vessel in respect of which a construction or operating subsidy has been granted all of the crew (crew including all employees of the ship) shall be citizens of the United States...
Page 54 - ... of this act, shall be permitted to depart from any port of the United States unless she has on board a crew not less than 75 per...
Page 38 - States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Page 6 - Congress notwithstanding; but such seaman shall, for all purposes of protection as an American citizen, be deemed such, after the filing of his declaration of intention to become such citizen.
Page 43 - They cover the policy adopted by the board of directors of the Maritime Association of the Port of New York...
Page 5 - An act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States.
Page 58 - Stat., 809,) and it provides : " that from and after the termination of the war in which the United States are now engaged with Great Britain, it shall not be lawful to employ, on board of any public or private vessels of the United States, any person or persons except citizens of the United States, or persons of color, natives of the United States.

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