In re Gladhill

The question in this case is, whether the police court of Lowell is a court of competent jurisdiction to receive *169and record declarations of aliens of their intention to become citizens, and to admit aliens to naturalization under the laws of the United States. The question arose in this way: The petitioner applied to this court to be naturalized, and as a part of his necessary evidence offered a transcript of the record of the Lowell police court, to prove his previous declaration of intention, made in that court on the 18th of July 1840. As the same courts only that are authorized to…