Public Law 64–316

That declarations of intention

Naturalization of aliens.

Declarations of intention filed in certain counties of Montana, validated.

Vol. 34, p. 30.

Vol. 35, p. 1102; Vol. 36, p. 831; Vol. 37, p. 737.

to become citizens of the United States filed prior to the passage of this Act in the counties of Cascade, Chouteau, Teton, Hill, Blaine, and Valley, State of Montana, under the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” as amended by the Acts of March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, are hereby declared to be as legal and valid as if such declarations of intention had been filed in the judicial district in which the declarants resided, as required by section four of said Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and that the petitions for naturalization dismissed on account of such invalidity in the declaration of intention shall be given a rehearing

Rehearings.

without additional cost, upon informal application therefor by the candidate for citizenship to the clerk of court upon notice to the Bureau of Naturalization: Provided, That such declarations of intention

Provisos.

Applicable only to entrymen.

shall not be by this Act further validated or legalized and that this Act shall apply only to those persons who have heretofore made homestead, desert land or timber and stone entries.