In re Thompson

This applicant filed petition for naturalization No. 18328 on November 18, 1926, under provisions of Act Sept. 22,1922. Her petition recites that she was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, arrived in the United States on September 3, 1923, and has since continuously resided therein, and that she has resided con- *152 tenuously in the state of California since September 8, 1926. She was married April 25, 1926, to Leon S. Thompson, a citizen of the United States bom at San Francisco, Cal.

The verifying witnesses to her petition made affidavits, and subsequently, at the preliminary hearing, testified to her residence and good character since only April 25,1926; the petitioner relying upon depositions which have been obtained to prove her prior residence in the state of California from at least November 17, 1925, to April 24, 1926, thereby completing proof of one year’s residence immediately preceding date of filing her petition for naturalization. The Act of September 22, 1922, requires proof of residence for only the one year immediately preceding the date of the petition. Section 10 of the Act of June 29, 1906 (Comp. St. § 4369), provides for the taking of depositions to prove residence…