Henry Batke, Certificate Entitling Naturalization, 1917

Once the oaths of residence and allegiance were sworn to by the alien, as Henry Batke did in the above post, the Justice of the Peace would make a determination whether the alien had met all of the conditions for citizenship. Having made this determination, he prepared the document you see to the left: "The Naturalization Act: Certificate that Alien is Entitled to Certificate of Naturalization." He would fill out the top portion from information on the previous document. The Justice of the Peace then forwarded this document along with the Oath of Residence and Oath of Allegiance to the Clerk of the District Court, in Henry Batke's case it was to the Judicial District of Swift Current.  On the wrapper of Henry's naturalization papers, it is stamped "Judicial District of Swift Current, July 20, 1917, RECEIVED"

When the Clerk of the District Court received the documents he posted them for at least two weeks in his office/court to see if anyone objected to the alien being naturalized.  If no objections were received, as it appears in Henry Batke's case, the Clerk signed the document.  This document then became the basis for Henry's Certificate of Naturalization which is shown in the following post.   Note the court in Swift Current received the papers on July 20, 1917 but didn't complete the process until October 3, 1917.

For a short introduction into the Naturalization Process in Canada, click on Canadian Naturalization Process.