There is no reason why an oath may not be taken before him at any place where he may happen to be. as well as before a judge or notary or commissioner. He is the person indicated by the law. When it dispenses with his action in open court. it dispenses with the only locality which is universally known for clerical action. and we can not require his action under the naturalization law s to be held in any particular spot or room or building without adding to the law a qualification of our own not indicated by its language and not required by any of its purposes. There has been a dictum of Judge Field cited here upon the same subject. but that was simply a dictum. There was no case pending befbre him. There was an ex parte application by Mrs. Langtry for naturalization. and the clerk had gone to her lodgings and intended to take the declaration there. It was wholly ex parte. There could be no judgment in such a case. of course.
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