Washnqton. D. 0. DE.R SIt : Receipt is acknowledged of your letter of the 18th instant. addressed to the Commissioner of Naturalization. offering to consider any suggestions the department might have to make In relation to section 67 of the act of codification. pending in the tiouse. and your sub. stitnte for said section. You understand. of course. that the Department of Justice has no authority in relation to the qestion of the retention of naturalization fees under section 13 of the a.!t of June 29. 1906. Some years ago. when the House Committee on the Judiciary had tnder consideration a fee hill for the clerks of courts. a representative from the former Department of Commerce and labor. the (lhief of the livislon las it was then) of Naturalization. appeared before the committee. and after presenting the views of the department in relation to the subject. those views were embodied In the act Just as they now appar in the substitute offered by Representative TowNER to section 17 aove referred to and to your substitute therefor. except tlat the words Secretnrs of tommerce should be " Secretary of Lahor." Tle hlli uinder consideration by the Jdiciary Committee was designed. of course. to place clerks of courts on a salary rntier than on a fee basis. ritat portion of the said bill relating to fees in naturalizotlon proceedings was so arranged as to enable the department to prevent delay to applicants for naturalization In Federal courts because of in. auffielency In clerical force. and to make such allowance as tigit be necessary to prevent such deficiency. You will see the importtnce to good administration of adopting the terms of the judiciary lill alove referred to. since it enables the department to make sttitabhle provision to obviate the delays to those seeking citlzenshilp heretofore experienced In n number of courts by reason of insufficiency of clerical force in said courts. Very truly. yours.
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