Ex parte Shahid

SMITH, District Judge.

This is an application for naturalization. The applicant has performed all the' necessary formalities, and the matter now comes up first upon his right to naturalization, and next whether, conceding that he belongs to the class of persons entitled to the benefit of naturalization, he is a fit subject to be naturalized.

According to his statement he is now 59 years of age, and was born at Zahle, in Asia Minor, in Syria, and came to this country about 11 years ago, and is a Christian. He writes his name in Arabic, cannot read or write English, and speaks and understands…