AGENCY: District Court (Sixth District : Kane County)

SERIES: 27790
TITLE: Citizenship certificate stubs
DATES: 1908-1929.
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical by certificate number.

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 essential 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 such as number of certificate; name; age; dates issue and filing; name, age, and place of residence of wife; names, ages, and places of residence of minor children; date of order; and signature of holder.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office permanently.

Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

Microfilm duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This disposition is based on the record's secondary informational value to researchers. These naturalization records are important sources for both the family historian and historical scholar studying immigration and ethnic settlement in Utah.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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