[61] With the creation of the Department of Labor, in 1913, out of the former Department of Commerce and Labor—Commerce becoming a separate department—the Naturalization Service became a Bureau of that department, headed by a Commissioner responsible to the Secretary of Labor.
[62] Act of June 29, 1906 (34 United States Statutes-at-Large, pt. i, p. 596), as amended by Act of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat., pt. i, p. 1102), as further amended by Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat., pt. i, p. 830), as further amended by Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat., pt. i, p. 736), as further amended by Act of May 9, 1918 (Public No. 144, Sixty-fifth Congress, Second Session).
[63] The Oath of Allegiance usually imposed in these proceedings reads as follows:
I hereby declare on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly to [name of sovereign of country] of whom I have heretofore been a subject; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
[64] The division offices are located in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis, St. Paul, Denver, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D. C., the last named being a division field headquarters, with a chief examiner in charge, as well as the site of the general headquarters of the Naturalization Bureau itself.
[65] That is to say, has been extant for at least two years, and, presumably, whether it has not expired by reason of having been extant for more than seven years—in which event it would be invalid by expiration.
[66] See Van Dyne, Naturalization, pp. 42-50; Moore, Digest of International Law, vol. iii, p. 329.
[67] In re Lopez, unreported; Supreme Court, District of Columbia, December 13, 1915. In re Fernandez, unreported; same court, September 24, 1913.
[68] See [chapter ix], on Military Naturalization.