formation of the new state, become citizens of the United States by adoption, even though, being foreigners, they have never complied with the requirements of the naturalization laws. Boyd v. Nebraska, 143 U. S. 135, 36 L. ed. 103, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 375. 85. Nebraska. The Nebraska enabling act (13 Stat. at L. 47, chap. 59) declared that all persons qualified to vote for representatives of the territorial legislature should be eligible to election as members of the convention, and should be entitled to vote upon the acceptance or rejection of the Constitution. By the existing laws of the territory, foreigners who had declared an intention to become citizens of the United States were entitled to vote at elections, and this provision was carried into the Constitution of the new state, as ratified by Congress. The Supreme Court of the United States held in Boyd v. Nebraska, 143 U. S. 135, 36 L. ed. 103, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 375, that upon the admission of the state into the Union, all persons of this class became citizens of the United States. A citizen of France, a resident and inhabitant of the territory of Nebraska, who had declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, became a citizen of the United States upon the admission of Nebraska into the Union as a state. Bahuaud v. Bize, 105 Fed. 485. PART III. PASSPORTS. CHAPTER I. STATUTES AND RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE ISSUANCE OF PASSPORTS. 86. In general. 87. Rules and regulations governing the granting and issuance of passports, prescribed by the President. 88. Forms. 86. In general.—The American passport is a document issued by the Secretary of State, or under his authority by a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States abroad (or by an executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States), to a citizen of the United States (or to a person owing allegiance to the United States), stating his citizenship (or status), and requesting for him free passage and all lawful aid and protection during his travels in foreign lands. See American Passport, p. 4. Until the passage of the act of Congress of June 14, 1902 (32 Stat. at L. 386, chap. 1088), amending the statutes of the United States so as to permit the granting of passports to residents of the insular possessions of the United States, passports were only issued to citizens of the United States. The sections of the Revised Statutes, as amended, which govern the subject, are as follows: "Sec. 4075 [U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 2764]. The Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by such diplomatic or consular officers of the United States, and by such chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States, and under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States; and no other person shall grant, issue, or verify any such passport. Where a legation of the United States is established in any country no person other than the diplomatic representative of the United States at such place shall be permitted to grant or issue any passport, except in the absence therefrom of such representative. "Sec. 4076 [U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 2765]. No passport shall be granted or issued to, or verified for, any other persons than those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States. "Sec. 4077 [U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 2765]. All persons who shall be authorized to grant, issue, or verify passports shall make return of the same to the Secretary of State, in such manner and as often as he shall require; and such returns shall specify the names and all other particulars of the persons to whom the same shall be granted, issued, or verified, as embraced in such passports. "Sec. 4078 [U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 2766]. If any per son acting, or claiming to act, in any office or capacity, under the United States, its possessions, or any of the states of the United States, who shall not be lawfully authorized so to do, shall grant, issue, or verify any passport or other instrument in the nature of a passport, to or for any person whomsoever, or if any consular officer who shall be authorized to grant, issue, or verify passports shall knowingly and wilfully grant, issue, or verify |