a similar instruction in 1880 with respect to a native citizen of Danish parentage who, having been taken abroad at an early age, claimed American citizenship on attaining his majority, saying: [Footnote 4]

"He lost no time, when he attained the age of majority, in declaring that he claimed the United States as his country and that he considered himself a citizen of

the United States. He appears to have adhered to this choice ever since, and now declares it to be his intention to return to this country and reside here permanently. His father's political status (whether a citizen of the United States or a Danish subject) has no legal or otherwise material effect on the younger P_____s' rights of citizenship."

Secretary Thomas F. Bayard, in answer to an inquiryby the Netherlands Legation whether one born in the United States, of Dutch parents, who during minority had been taken back to the Netherlands by his father, on the latter's resumption of permanent residence there, was an American citizen, answered: [Footnote 5]

"But the general view held by this Department is that a naturalized American citizen, by abandonment of his allegiance and residence in this country and a return to the country of his birth, animo manendi, ceases to be a citizen of the United States, and that the minor son of a party described as aforesaid, who was born in the United States during the citizenship there of his father, partakes during his legal infancy of his father's domicile, but, upon becoming sui juris, has the right to