I admit there Is perhaps no specific language like that in the present law. but I do not think language designating the State officers as Federal officers and agents for the enforcement of the naturalization law is of any significance whatever. When a State court or the officers of a State court undertake to administer a Federal naturalization law. by the very nature of the undertaking they become Federal officers or agents in that particular work. and it does not make any difference whether the court shall be specifically designated a Federal court or the clerk a Federal clerk while so engaged or not. They are such whether this law says so or not. We can not add to or take from the fact that an officer who exercises Federal power is a Federal officer or agent in the execution of that power.
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