Ex parte Eberhardt

DYER, District Judge.

[1] The petitioner, Joseph Eberhardt, filed his application for citizenship August 25, 1920. He based this upon a declaration of intention executed August 25, 1913. Existing law places a limitation of seven years upon the life of a declaration of intention. The law excludes parts of days. A declaration is therefore valid, so far as its age is concerned, for the purpose of petitioning for naturalization, on its seventh anniversary. In re Babjak (D. C.) 211 Fed. 551. But there is no expedient that may be resorted to whereby the life of a given declaration of intention may…