No additional burden has been laid upon the clerks since the passage of the naturalization law. nor does the provision now pending lay any additional burden upon the clerks. But when the naturalization law was passed it laid a largely increased service upon the clerks in a half dozen different ways which I would not be able to clearly state without having a copy of the act before me. Under the new naturalization law the whole business has been thoroughly arranged and such pains are taken in connection with every subject of proceeding that the labor of the clerks is very largely increased. The cost of naturalization was fixed substantially at $5. and out of that the clerks take onehalf and the balance goes to the Government of the United States. That fee is so disproportionately small that the clerks of the State courts refuse absolutely to send for the papers or to conduct the business. and in the United States courts the business is very much discouraged. But in the large cities. where there Is a large volume of business. the applicant first files his declaration of intention.
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