The bill repeals a section of the Revised Statutes which provides that any foreignborn sailor who has served on a merchant vessel for three years. and has a certificate to that effect. shall not be required to prove up the five years residence in order to become a citizen. It also repeals another section of the Revised Statutes which provides that when an alien has declared his intention to become acitizen of the United States at least two years before the expiration of he five years limitation of residence and diesbefore he has acquired full citizenship. his widow and his children shall be deemed to be citizens of the United States. I do not know whether the committee that reported this bill intended the repeal of these sections or whether they were overlooked inits consideration. but the fact remains that all of these sections. two of which are incorporated in the original naturalization laws. and the third enacted since the close of the war. would be repealed by this act. I shall not read them. Mr.
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