In re Hastrup

HamiltoN, Judge,

delivered tbe following opinion:

Tbe petition, whose allegations are not denied, shows that until tbe Act of March 2, 1917, this court bad not granted applications for naturalization since shortly after the passage of tbe Naturalization Law of June 29, 1906 (34 Stat. at L. 596, chap. 3592, Comp. Stat. § 963, 6 Fed. Stat. Anno. 2d ed. p. 940), it having been held by tbe Department of Labor that tbe court bad no such power. It seems that tbe clerk of this court published a notice in tbe newspapers at San Juan that after November 30, 1911, tbe court would cease to grant first…