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Importaad Deeisio~.-My opinion has been re-
quested on this question " Are the children Of
parents naturaIised under any existing law of the
United States, who were under tventv -one wears
Of age at the period of their parents na,uraliza.
ton, entitled. themselves, to the privileges of c
zenship?" have no doubt, not the most remote
that they are. The question turns altogether upon
what is to be considered the true construction OF
the naturalization act Of Congress of the l4,h
April, 1902, and especially of the 9TH section of
tha; act.


am sure that it admits of but one interpreta-
tion, and that is, that matter under what law,
or at what period, if the parents are naturalsed,
heir children. if then under age, are at once, and
by virtue OF that section, made citizens. This
seems to me to be perfectly clear as wei! from tine
obvious motive Of the provision as from the terms
used. The parent considered as the head Of the
| 'amily, and as representing all Of them who, when
| he becomes naturalised. re infants. At his death
inles,s,e, the law designed that his children should
be his heirs. and they could only be so, by max inc
| them, by favor of the citizenship of the pa rent
themselves citizens. The children over twenty
one, and of course capable Of determining and
| acting for themselves, excluded from the be-
eft Of the section, but minors, who have no legal
| or supposed capacity. we're intended to be made
npable of inherng their fathers estate, by favor
of HIS citizenship. | repeat then, as my decid.
ed opinion. that the construction | give the law is
the correct one, and knov that such has BEEN
and is, the Interpretation given to it by all the
courts of Baltimore, Federal peH as State
So we'll settled indeed is the question considered
by them, that am sure, except as a matter OF
courtesy, they would not hear an argument
| against it. RENERDf JOHNSON.
Baltimore, 10Th Sept, 1914.