C. MY DEAR CONXReSS.xAN: I am In receipt of a telegram from the Commissioner of NatoralizAtion. advising me the Unitetl States So"prenie Court has handed down an opinion in which it held that the declarations of intention issued prior to the date on which the act of June 29. 1906. went Into (Iffect are Invalid. �One of the provisions ef tie abovenalned act was to make declaralions of intent invalid for all purposes seven years after the date of issuanc.. and. with tile exception of the United States judicial circuit taking in the southern district of New York. it has never been heretofore held that tbat provislon was retrJoactive. It is lay bilief thls opinion of -the Supreme Court will have time effect of making all certilicates of naturalization issued *throughout the country since this act went into effect. nanmely. September 27. 1906. the petitions for which were supported by declarations of intent that were more than seven years ohi. nl] and void. I thought that you might be interested in Introducing a bill In Congress that wonld have the effect of validating all such certificates.
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