Dean
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. This was a petition of William Dean, an alien, praying for admission to citizenship. The petitioner came to the United States from England after he was eighteen years of age and more than five years before the date of his petition, intending to become a citizen, and has over since resided in the United States. More than two years prior to this hearing he had made and filed a declaration of his intention to become a citizen.
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On exceptions. This was a petition of William Dean, an alien, praying for admission to citizenship. The petitioner came to the United States from England after he was eighteen years of age and more than five years before the date of his petition, intending to become a citizen, and has over since resided in the United States. More than two years prior to this hearing he had made and filed a declaration of his intention to become a citizen. By the declaration it appeared to have been made before Edwin J. Cram, Recorder of the Municipal Court of the City of Biddeford. Upon this petition the…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
This is an application by an alien seeking to become a citizen of the United States. As evidence of the previous declaration of his intention to be naturalized, required by the Act of Congress, the applicant produced a copy of a dec*492laration made by him January 24, 1888, before Edwin J. Cram, Recorder of the Municipal Court of the City of Biddeford, attested by "Edwin J. Cram, Recorder.” Under the federal statutes, only those courts that are authorized to naturalize, are authorized to receive and record this declaration of intention. The question here presented, therefore, is whether the…
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