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79th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 730
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 13 (legislative day, March 12), 1945
Mr. Pepper introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to th# Committee on Immigration
A BILL
To authorize the admission into the United States, under a
quota for Koreans, persons oi the Korean race, to make them
racially eligible for naturalization, and for other purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 lives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 That section 303 of the Nationality Act of 1940, as amended
4 (54 Stat. 1140; 8 U.S. C. 703; Public Law 199,*Seventy-
5 eighth Congress; ch. 344, first session), is amended to read
6 as follows:
7 "Sec. 303.  (a)   The  right  to become  a naturalized
8 citizen under the provisions of this Act shall extend only
9 to  (1)  white persons;   (2)  persons of African nativity or
10   descent;   (3)   persons  who  are  descendants  of races  in-