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 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 69. 1918. 547 with recommendation for reenlistment, or who has completed four years of honorable service in the naval auxiliary service, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States upon his petition without any previous declaration of his intention to become such, and without proof of residence on shore, and the court admitting such alien shall, in addition to proof of good moral character, be satisfied by competent proof from naval or revenue-cutter sources of such service: Promkled, That an honorable discharge from the Navy, Marine Com, Revenue-Cutter Service, or the Naval Auxiliary Service, or an or ary discharge with recommendation for reenlistment, shall be accepted as proof of ood moral character: Promkled further, That any court which new {has orimay hereafter be given jurisdiction to naturalize aliens as citizens of the United States may immediately naturalize any alien applying under and furnishin the Im { _ proof prescribed lg the fore%>ing prov1sions"; and so mucli of am pipgsiiawm section three of an ct gpprovc Jime twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred “‘{?,,,_ 3,,,,, m and ten (Thirty-fourth tatutes at Large, `part one, page six hundred and thirty), reading as follows: "That lpsaragraph two of section four of an Act entitled ‘An Act to estab h a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States ’ approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended lay adding, after the proviso in aragrapai two of section four of said Act, the following: Provided j'3r¢her, at any person belonging to the class of persons authorized and qualified under existing aw to become a of thedUnited States, pvihp has resided constant?} in Hltgme. ni tates uring a rio 0 e years next reced1n.g' ay t nineteen hundred and tg, who, because of misinlformation in regard to his citizenship or the requirements of the law gpverning the naturalization of citizens has labored and acted under e impression that he was or could become a citizen of the United States and has in good faith exercised the rigbhts or duties of a citizen or intended citizen of the United States ecause of such wrongful information and belief may, upon making a showing of such facts satisfactory to a court having ]urisdiction to issue papers of naturalization to an alien, and the court in its tgidgment e eves that such person has been for a period of more an five years entitledeiapon proper proceedin to be naturalized as a citizen of the Uni States, receive from tie said court a final certificate of naturalization and said court may issue such certificate without requiring proof,_of former declaration bly; or on part of such person of their intention to become a citizen of the United States, but such applicant for naturalization shall comply in all other respects with the w relative to the issuance of final papers of naturalization to aliens." That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with or repugnant to  hm '°' the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed; but nothinglin this ummm Act shall repeal or in any Wag enlarge section twenty-one undred and sixty-nme of the Revise Statutes, exceplt as specified in the §;.Z;§°E;§l°’p‘3m‘ seventh subdivision of this Act and under the limitation therein _ defined: Provided, That for the piuposes of the prosecution of all $.2%%*,; prosecu. crimes and offenses against the naturalization laws of the United *i°¤S»°*°··°°¤“¤“°"· States which may have been committed prior to this Act the statutes stm, D, 8,,,,,,, M_ and laws hereginrepealed shall remain in full force and effect: Pro- ineiutm Army- vuledlfurther, t as to all aliens who, plrior to January first nineteen undred, served in the Armies of the United States and were R_S_ ,,._m,,p_m_ honorably dischaxiged therefrom, section twenty-one hundred and ' S1Xl1y·S1X of the evised Statutes of the United States shall be and remain in full force and effect, anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. Y