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Gen. Charles S. If the examiner is satisfied tlt tile applicant can qualify Farnsworth requested that immediate steps be taken to handle before the court. the petition is filed with the clerk and the the naturalization of the men of the Thirtyseventh Division. aliens name is posted for 90 days. At the end of this time as the following morning they were under orders to proceed the final examination is held in open court ahid if. in the opinion to some point of debarkation for overseas service. By use of of the judge. the applicant is qualified. he raises his right hand. telegraph and telephone a corps of examiners was assembled renounces allegiance to his foreign ruler. and takes the oath of at Montgomery. Ala.. Saturday night and Sunday morning. allegiance to the United States. and at 5 oclock Sunday morning work was begun in the camp All children under 21 years of age and residing within the in preparation for the naturalization hearing on the following United States on the date of the parents naturalization auto- morning. Judge Clayton. General Farnsworth. and Mr. Moore. matically become citizens of this country. By tile act of the representative of the naturalization service. planned the September 22. 1922. commonly known as the Cable Act. women hearing for sunrise of such units as were under orders to were granted independent citizenship. Alien women are now entrain. It was necessary to outline the work. prepare the receiving the same attention and education as men and are be- papers. and make all final preparations for the unusual cerecoming citizens independent of their husbaids. An alien miy of a session of court at sunrise on the open parade grounds woman. however. whose husband is an American citizen. aeed in . military camp. not file her declaration. and only one years residence instead Lieutenant Colonel Albrecht was assigned by General Farnsof five is necessary. worth as the military officer in charge. and through his able Of the 14.000.000 foreign born in the United States less than cooperation It was possible to file the naturalization papers. half are naturalized. There aire 2.000 State courts and 200 It was. to say the least. an impressive ceremony. Three hunUnited States courts where hearings are held inllaturalization dred aid sixtysix enlisted men of many nationalities. all petiproceedings. During the fiscal year enlding June 30. 1923. tioners for naturalization. In full marching equipment ready 169.968 petitions were finally disposed of. of which numlber to cross the seas in defense of their adopted country. were 145.084 were adnmitted to citizenship and 24.884 denied for varl- drawn up in rectangular formation. At one end of the rectangle ous reasons. on a raised platform were seated the United States district