Certainly. Many of the 5.000 courts then having jurisdiction in naturalization cases. have been deprived of that jurisdiction under the new naturalization law passed at the last session of Congress. Now. at the last session. in addition to passing the general naturalization law. we did pass. as the gentleman from New York has stated. a bill authorizing the validating of certificates issued by the criminal court of Cook County. There has been some question as to whether that court was authorized. under the law then in force. to issue naturalization certificates. The court had issued a great many such certificates. and those certificates had not been issued in accordance with this section. We have validated all the certificates issued by that court. and the purpose of this legislation is only to correct. not the error of the applicants. but the error of the courts that were authorized to issue iaturalization certificates.
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