Series 85182

DESCRIPTION: This series contains stubs for certificates of citizenship issued by the court to newly naturalized citizens. The court clerk was responsible for sending the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization in Washington D.C. a duplicate of the certificate, "and to make and keep on file in his office a stub for each certificate so issued by him, whereon shall be entered a memorandum of all the essecntial facts set forth in such certificate." (Naturalization Act of June 29, 1906, Sec. 12, p. 117 in the Compiled Laws of Utah 1907. Charles S. Tingey, 1908, Salt Lake City.)

The essential facts included both filing information and personal history information on the individual:

No. of certificate,......

Name............

Age........

Declaration of intention issued by clerk of ...... court of ........, vol.........., page....... on the .......day of.......A.D.........

Petition filed on the ..... day of ...... A.D. ........ vol......, page........

Name, age, and place of residence of wife......,........,.......

Names, ages, and places of residence of minor children.................................................................................... Date of order........... Volume......., page......

(Signature of holder)...............

The preprinted stub forms were in volumes issued by the Bureau of Naturalization.

ARRANGEMENT: The stubs are arranged by certificate and volume number. The certificate numbers were issued in chronological order.

RELATED RECORDS: The volumes cited for petitions of naturalization and order of admission as a citizen are those in the NATURALIZATION RECORD BOOKS, series 84156, kept by the Fourth District Court in and for Wasatch County. This series serves a partial index to it.

FINDING AIDS: An alphabetical name index has been compiled and is available in the Research Center.

PROCESSING NOTE: The series was microfilmed in 1981; Archival processing by A.C. Cone was completed in 1989.

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