No. 2502. September 28, 1925. John C.F. Gordon, District Director of Naturalization, for the United States. Petition of Maria Fortunato to be admitted to citizenship. Granted. MORRIS, District Judge. Maria Fortunato, an alien, filed her petition in April last to be admitted to citizenship. Hearing was had thereon on the 14th day of the present month — September, 1925. At that hearing it appeared that the petitioner had complied with all the conditions precedent and that generally she was well qualified

JANUARY TERM, 1843. IN error to the Court for the trial of Impeachments and Correction of Error, of the state of New York. The counsel for the plaintiff in error, having filed a statement in writing, setting forth that the matters in controversy in this case had been agreed and settled between the parties; it is thereupon now here considered and adjudged by this court that this writ of error be and the same is hereby dismissed, at the cost of the plaintiff in error.

March Term, 1863 John K. Porter, for the appellant. Daniel Lord, for the respondent. SELDEN, J. Our statute concerning tenures provides that "every citizen of the United States is capable of holding lands within this State, and of taking the same by descent, devise or purchase." (1 R.S., 719, § 8.) Aliens can neither take nor hold such lands except under certain conditions not claimed to exist here. (Id., §§ 15, 16, 17.) The question, who are citizens of the United States, must depend upon the laws