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Volume 44

Public Law 69–388

To validate certain declarations of intentions.

Approved May 25, 1926

Statutory text

An Act

To validate certain declarations of intentions.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That so much of the seventh subdivision of section 4 of the Act 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,” approved June 29, 1906, as amended, as reads

Prohibition, for making on election (lay, etc., repealed.

as follows: “Provided, That it shall not be lawful to make a declaration of intention before the clerk of any court on election day or during the period of thirty days preceding the day of holding of any election within the jurisdiction of the court,” is repealed.

Sec. 2.

No declaration of intention heretofore filed in disregard of so much of such Act of 1906 as is above repealed shall be held invalid for such cause.

Approved, May 25, 1926.

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