In re Sutherland

DAY, District Judge.

[1] This is an application for naturalization to which the representative of the government has interposed certain objections. The petition was filed under section 2174 of the Revised Statutes, which provides as follows:

■“Every seaman, being a foreigner, who declares his intention of becoming a citizen of the United 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…