SEC. 4414. Sessions of courts for naturalization. In the counties of Windham, Middlesex, and Tolland the superior court shall be in session on Friday of the second week before, and on the day before, the electors' meeting to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1902, and biennially thereafter, for the purpose of admitting aliens to become citizens of the United States. The courts of common pleas and district court, respectively, in the other counties shall be in session on said days for the same purpose.

SEC. 4415. Record of witnesses and their testimony. When either of said courts shall admit an alien to become a citizen of the United States, the clerk thereof shall make a record of the names and residences of all persons testifying in behalf of such alien and of the substance of their testimony and preserve the same; and he shall keep among the files of said court all declarations of intention to become citizens, and certified copies of such declarations, and all certificates that may be offered in evidence except discharges from the Army or Navy of the United States, and upon all such discharges offered in evidence he shall indorse a certificate of the naturalization of the persons holding the same.

SEC. 4416. Naturalization certificate must be dated.-Every certificate of naturalization issued by any court of this State shall specify upon its face the date when it was granted.

SEC. 4417. Applicant to pay for naturalization papers.-Every clerk of a court issuing naturalization papers who shall not require the payment of the legal fee therefor by the applicant at the time such papers are delivered, shall forfeit his office and shall be ineligible to reappointment for five years.

SEC. 4418. Penalty if otherwise paid. Every person who shall individually or as a member of any committee or political organization pay the fee for naturalization papers issued to another, or shall agree or become obligated to pay therefor, or to refund the amount paid therefor, shall be fined not less than seven nor more than one hundred dollars.

[General Statutes of Connecticut, revision of 1902, p. 353.]

SEC. 1164. Deprivation of rights on account of alicnage, color, or race. Every person who subjects, or causes to be subjected, any other person to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the constitution or laws of this State or of the United States, on account of alienage, color, or race, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both.

[General Statutes of Connecticut, revision of 1902, p. 639.]

SEC. 2466. How foreigners may gain settlement.-No person who is not an inhabitant of this State or of some State or Territory of the United States who shall come to reside in any town in this State shall gain a settlement therein unless admitted by a vote of its inhabitants or by consent of its justices of the peace and selectmen, a majority of whom, convened and acting as one board, shall be a quorum for that purpose.

ACT OF 1895.

[Connecticut Public Acts, 1895, Chapter CCXCV, p. 638.]

AN ACT Concerning Italian and other alien laborers.

Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives in general assembly convened:

SEC. 1. The commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics is hereby authorized to appoint some competent person or persons, familiar with the language of Italian, Polish, or other alien laborers, as special agents of the bureau, whose duty it shall be to inform said laborers, either personally or through printed matter in their language, as to their right of contract under the laws of the State, and to prevent, as far as possible, any illegal advantage being taken of said laborers by reason of their ignorance, credulity, or want of knowledge of the English language.

SEC. 2. The appointment of said special agents shall not be permanent, but simply to meet the exigencies of each case as presented to the commissioner, and they shall be paid a similar per diem compensation to that paid to other agents of the bureau, the total per diem expense in any one year not to exceed three hundred dollars. SEC. 3. Any person who shall obtain or receive money due Italian, Polish, or other foreign laborers, ignorant of the English language, and shall retain any part thereof for his own use without giving adequate consideration therefor, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment for one year, or both.

Approved, July 4, 1895.

DELAWARE.

DIGEST OF IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.

Code of 1852 and 1893 (titles to real property).-Aliens may hold and transmit real property after declaration of intention to become a citizen. The act is retrospective and relates back to 1811. Purchases prior to 1829 are valid. Personal property of aliens pass just as that of citizens. Grants to aliens prior to 1805 are good, and deeds made by aliens are good.

Act of 1879-1881 (an act to encourage immigration to the State).The act of 1879-1881 provides that certain marsh lands assessed at not exceeding $2 an acre may be exempted from taxation for 10 years when settled by 10 or more families.

Act of 1879-1881 (an act in relation to titles of real property).— The act of 1879-1881 confirms the titles made to or by aliens prior to 1879. Conveyances made by the widow or children of an alien shall be valid.

Act of 1881 (an act in relation to estates of aliens and to complete their titles to the same).-Conveyances to and by aliens made. prior to 1897 are made valid. Title of widow or child of alien made prior to 1879 is valid.

Act of 1883 (an act for the encouragement of immigration and to foster the agricultural interests of the State). The act of 1883 empowers the governor to appoint a board of immigration, consisting of three commissioners for terms of two years. Expenses, but no compensation, shall be allowed. It shall be the duty of the commissioners to advertise in periodicals, distribute special publications, and utilize any other effective means to induce desirable immigration. But they shall also exercise due care to prevent the importation into the State of any person who might endanger the public morals, health, peace, or good order of its citizens. They shall publish pamphlets containing data relative to all resources and advantages. They shall make special arrangements with transportation companies. They shall encourage the formation of local agricultural societies for the procuring of foreign labor, and shall appoint agents or otherwise direct, invite, and encourage immigration.

Acts of 1885, 1893, 1905, 1909.-Acts were passed in 1885, 1893, 1905, and 1909 to the same general effect in relation to the estate of aliens and in completion of their titles.

Act of 1907 (an act for the encouragement of immigration and to foster the agricultural interests of the State).-The act of 1907 constitutes the members of the state board of agriculture a board of immigration commissioners, of which the governor shall be ex officio member. The general duties, powers, and provisions are parallel with those prescribed by the act of 1883.

IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.

EXTRACTS FROM REVISED CODE.

[Laws of Delaware, Revised Code, 1852, as amended, etc., 1893, title 12, Ch. LXXXI, p. 617.]

SECTION 1. An alien residing in this State, and having made declaration according to law of his intention to become a citizen of the United States, shall be capable of taking by deed or will lands, tenements, and hereditaments in fee simple or for other estate, and of holding and of aliening the same; and upon the decease of an lien having title or right by purchase or descent according to this act to any lands, tenements, or hereditaments in fee simple, intestate as to such lands, tenements, or hereditaments, the same shall descend and pass in the same manner as if said alien were a citizen of the United States; and it shall be no objection to the kindred, husband, or widow of such alien, or of any citizen deceased, taking lands, tenements, or hereditaments by virtue of the intestate law of this State that they are aliens if they at the time of the death of the intestate reside within the limits of the United States; and any such kindred, being aliens and not residing within the limits of the United States at the time of the intestate's death, shall be passed by, and the effect shall be the same as if they were dead.

SEC. 2. The foregoing section shall have a retrospective operation, and shall relate to the 22d day of January, in the year of our Lord 1811, and shall have the same effect as if enacted on that day.

SEC. 3. All purchases, conveyances, and devises made before the 26th day of January, A. D. 1829, to or by an alien residing at the time in this State of lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall be as valid and the property shall pass and be held as if such alien had been a citizen. But no right vested in any person shall be divested or prejudiced by this section.

SEC. 4. When a title to real estate is claimed by descent by a person capable at the time of the descent of inheriting, it shall be no bar or interruption of such descent that the father, mother, or other ancestor, through whom the descent is derived, was an alien.

SEC. 5. The personal estate of an alien deceased intestate residing in this State at the time of his death shall be distributed in the same manner as if he were a citizen, and it shall be no objection to the husband, widow, or kindred of an alien or other intestate taking distributive shares of the deceased's personal estate that they are aliens.

SEC. 6. All gifts, grants, bargains, sales, conveyances, and devises of any lands, tenements, and hereditaments within this State made. before the 23d day of January, A. D. 1805, to any person or persons, who at the time of making the same was or were an alien or aliens shall be good and effectual, and shall be construed and taken to be good and effectual, to vest in the grantee, or grantees, bargainee or bargainees, devisee or devisees, such estate and interest, and as good a right and title in and to the same as he or they could have taken by the same gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, or devise if he or they had been legally naturalized at the time of making the same; and all deeds and conveyances made of any lands, tenements, and

hereditaments within this State by any such alien or aliens, or his or their legal representatives, or by virtue of any legal process directed to the sheriff or coroner, shall be as good and effectual, and shall be construed and taken to be as good and effectual to vest in the grantee or grantees, bargainee or bargainees, devisee or devisees, such estate and as good a right and title in and to the same lands, tenements, and hereditaments as such grantee, bargainee, or devisee could have taken by the same if the grantor, bargainor, or devisor had been legally naturalized at the time of making such grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, or devise last mentioned.

ACT OF 1879.

[Delaware Laws, pts. 1-2, 1879-1881, title 12, ch. 127, p. 189.]

AN ACT In relation to the estates of aliens.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the State of Delaware in general assembly met, That all gifts, grants, bargains, sales, conveyances, and devises of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, within this State, made before the 1st day of January, A. D. 1879, to any person or persons who, at the time of making the same, was an alien, or were aliens, shall be good and effectual, and shall be construed and taken to be good and effectual to vest in the grantee or grantees, bargainee or bargainees, devisee or devisees, such estate and interest, and as good a right and title in and to the the same as he or she or they could have taken by the same gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, or devise, if he or she or they had been legally naturalized at the time of making the same; and all deeds and conveyances made of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments within this State, by any such alien or aliens, or his or her or their legal representatives, or by virtue of any legal process, directed to the sheriff or coroner, shall be as good and effectual and shall be construed to be as good and effectual to vest in the grantee or grantees, bargainee or bargainees, devisee or devisees, such estate, and as good a right and title in and to the same lands, tenements, and hereditaments as such grantee, bargainee, or devisee could have taken by the same if the grantor, bargainor, or devisor had been legally naturalized at the time of making such grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, or devise last mentioned.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That the widow, child, or children, respectively, of any alien, who died before the 1st day of January, A. D. 1879, shall be held to have acquired and taken the same interest, right, and estate as they would have done if such alien had been a citizen at the time of his death. And all conveyances made by such widow, child, or children, or of their or any of their rights or estates by legal proceeding, shall be as valid and effectual to convey such rights and estates as if such alien had been a citizen of this State at the time of his death.

Passed at Dover, February 5, 1879.

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