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![handle is hein.immigration/supnatl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Calendar No 1531
70m CoNRnEss SENATE REPoRV
2d Session No. 1504
SUPPLEMENT TO NATURALIZATION LAWS
JANUARY 24, 1929.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. COPELAND, from the Committee on Immigration, submitted the
following
REPORT
[To accompany H. R. 349]
The Committee on Immigration, to whom was referred the bill
(H. R. 349) to supplement the naturalization laws, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with
the recommendation that the bill do pass with the following amend-
ment:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof
the following:
That (a) the registry of aliens at ports of entry required by section 1 of the act
of June 29, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, part 1, page 596), as amended,
may be made as to any alien not ineligible to citizenship in whose case there is ho
record of admission for permanent residence, if such alien shall make a satisfactory
showing to the Commissioner General of Immigration, in accordance with regula-
tions prescribed by the Commissioner General of Immigration, with the approval
of the Secretary of Labor, that he-
(1) Entered the United States prior to July 1, 1924;
(2) Has resided in the United States continuously since such entry;
(3) Is a person of good moral character;
(4) Is not subject to deportation.
(b) For each such record of registry made as herein authorized the alien shall
pay to the Commissioner General of Immigration a fee of $20. All fees collected
under this section shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
(c) The provisions of section 76 of the act entitled An act to codify, revise.
and amend the penal laws of the United States, approved March 4, 1909,
shall apply in respect of the record of registry authorized by this section in the
same manner and to the same extent, including penalties, as they apply in
respect of the oaths, notices, affidavits, certificates, orders, records, signatures,
and other instruments, papers, or proceedings specified in such section 76.
SEC. 2. Upon the making of a record of registry as authorized by section 1 of
this act, the certificate of arrival required by the fourth paragraph of the second
subdivision of section 4 of such act of June 29, 1906, as amended, may be issued
upon application to the Commissioner of Naturalization, in accordance with
regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Naturalization, with the approval
of the Secretary of Labor, and upon payment of the fee prescribed by section 5
of this act.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.immigration/supnatl0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)