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Sec. 3. The governor, secretary and judges, and all other officers under the territorial government, shall continue in the exercise of the duties of their respective departments, until the said officers are superseded under the authority of this constitution.

Sec. 4. All laws, and parts of laws, now in force in this territory, not inconsistent with this constitution, shall continue and remain in full effect, until repealed by the Legislature, except so much of the act, entitled "an act regulating the admission and practice of attorneys and counsellors at law," and of the act made amendatory thereto, as relates to the term of time which the applicant shall have studied law, his residence within the territory, and the term of time which he shall have practiced as an attor ney at law, before he can be admitted to the degree of a counsellor at law.

Sec. 5. The governor of the State shall make use of his private seal, until a State seal be procured.

Sec. 6. The president of the convention, shall issue writs of election to the sheriffs of the several counties, requiring them to proceed to the election of a governor, members of the General Assembly, sheriffs and coroners, at the respective election districts in each county, on the second Tuesday of January next; which elections shall be conducted in the man ner prescribed by the existing election laws of this territory: and the mem bers of the General Assembly, then elected, shall continue to exercise the duties of their respective offices until the next annual or biennial election thereafter, as prescribed in this constitution, and no longer.

Sec. 7. Until the first enumeration shall be made, as directed in the second section of the first article of this constitution-the county of Hamil ton shall be entitled to four senators and eight representatives; the county of Clermont, one senator and two representatives; the county of Adams, one senator and three representatives; the county of Ross, two senators and four representatives; the county of Fairfield, one senator and two representatives; the county of Washington, two senators and three representatives; the county of Belmont, one senator and two representatives; the county of Jefferson, two senators and four representatives; and the county of Trumbull, one senator and two representatives. Done in Convention at Chillicothe, the twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, and of the independence of the United States of America, the twenty-seventh. In testimony whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names, EDWARD TIFFIN, President.

Attest, THOMAS SCOTT, Secretary.

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.

AN ACT to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.

Any free white

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any alien may be alien, being a free white person, may be admitted to become come a citizen, a citizen of the United States, or any of them, on the following mentioned, fr. conditions, and not otherwise:

on conditions

mentioned, three

tention to be

First. That he shall have declared, on oath or affirmation, Alien to declare, before the supreme, superior, district, or circuit court, of some on oath, before one of the States, or of the territorial districts of the United one of the courts States, or a circuit or district court of the United States, three years before ad years, at least, before his admission, that it was, bona fide, his mission, his inintention to become a citizen of the United States, and to re- come a citizen, nounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, ance to any to potentate, state or sovereignty, whatever; and particularly, by reign prince, &e. name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, whereof such alien may, at the time, be a citizen or subject.

renounce allegi

be admitted, the

will support the

Secondly. That he shall, at the time of his application to be At the time of admitted, declare, on oath or affirmation, before some one of application, to the courts aforesaid, that he will support the constitution of the alien to declare, United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely re- on oath, that be nounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign constitution, t prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, whatever; and particu- ly renounces all larly, by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, allegiance to any whereof he was before a citizen or subject: which proceedings foreign princeshall be recorded by the clerk of the court.

that he absolute

Proceedings to

be recorded, &c.

be satisfied that

five years with

Thirdly. That the court admitting such alien, shall be satis- The court admit. fied that he has resided within the United States five years, at ting the alien, te least, and within the State or Territory where such court is at he has resided the time held, one year at least; and it shall further appear in the United to their satisfaction, that, during that time, he has behaved as States, one year a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of in the State, and the constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the ved as a man of good order and happiness of the same: Provided, That the good moral cha oath of the applicant shall, in no case, be allowed to prove his viso, &c. residence.

that he has ben

racter, &c. Pro

Fourthly. That in case the alien, applying to be admitted to In case the alica citizenship, shall have borne any hereditary title, or been of has borne any any of the orders of nobility, in the kingdom or state from nobility, he mast which he came, he shall, in addition to the above requisites, renounce it, &c

title or order of

The renuncia

be recorded.

Proviso: no alien

be then admit

ted, &c.

Aliens who

were residing

and under the

Jan. 1795, may

mentioned.

make an express renunciation of his title or order of nobility, tion of titles to in the court to which his application shall be made; which renunciation shall be recorded in the said court: Provided, That whose sovereign no alien, who shall be a native citizen, denizen or subject, of is at war with any country, state or sovereign, with whom the United States the U. States, to shall be at war, at the time of his application, shall be then admitted to be a citizen of the United States: Provided also, That any alien who was residing within the limits, and under within the limits the jurisdiction, of the United States, before the twenty-ninth jurisdiction of day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, the U. States, be- may be admitted to become a citizen, on due proof made to fore the 29th of some one of the courts aforesaid, that he has resided two be admitted on years, at least, within, and under the jurisdiction, of the United the conditions States, and one year at least, immediately preceding his application, within the State or Territory where such court is at the time held; and on his declaring on oath or affirmation, that he will support the constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever; and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, whereof he was before a citizen or subject; and, moreover, on its appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that, during the said term of two years, he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same; and where the alien, applying for admission to citizenship, shall have borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the orders of nobility in the kingdom or state from which he came, on his moreover making in the court an express renunciation of his title or order of nobility, before he shall be entitled to such admission: all of which proceedings, required in this proviso to be performed in the court, shall be recorded by the clerk thereof: Aliens residing And provided, also, That any alien who was residing within the der the jurisdic limits, and under the jurisdiction, of the United States, at any sion of the Uni- time between the said twenty-ninth day of January, one thoutween the 29th sand, seven hundred and ninety-five, and the eighteenth day of of Jan. 1795, and June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, may, with1798, may, with- in two years after the passing of this act, be admitted to become a citizen, without compliance with the first condition April, 1802, be above specified.

Proceedings to be recorded by the clerk.

within and un

ted States, be.

the 18th of June,

in two years

from the 14th

ens, arriving in the U. States,

become citizens,

admittedcitizens. Sec. 2. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That in addiFree white ali- tion to the directions aforesaid, all free white persons, being aliens, who may arrive in the United States after the passing must, in order to of this act, shall, in order to become citizens of the United make registry, States, make registry, and obtain certificates, in the following and obtain certi- manner, to wit: Every person, desirous of being naturalized, manner prescri- shall, if of the age of twenty-one years, make report of himself; or if under the age of twenty-one years, or held in service, shall be reported by his parent, guardian, master or mistress, to the

ficates in the

bed.

clerk of the district court of the district where such alien or aliens shall arrive, or to some other court of record of the United States, or of either of the territorial districts of the same, or of a particular State; and such report shall ascertain the name, birth place, age, nation, and allegiance, of each alien, together with the country whence he or she migrated, and the place of his or her intended settlement: and it shall be the duty of such clerk, on receiving such report, to record the same in his office, and to grant to the person making such report, and to each individual concerned therein, whenever he shall be required, a certificate, under his hand and seal of office, of such report and registry: and for receiving and registering each 50 cents to the report of an individual or family, he shall receive fifty cents; tering each reand for each certificate, granted pursuant to this act, to an in- port of aliens. dividual or family, fifty cents: and such certificate shall be ex- exhibited to the hibited to the court by every alien who may arrive in the Uni- court, as evited States, after the passing of this act, on his application to of alien's arribe naturalized, as evidence of the time of his arrival within the val, &c. United States.

clerk for regis

Certificate to be

dence of the time

risdiction, a seal

Sec. 3. And whereas, doubts have arisen whether certain Every court of record, in any courts of record, in some of the States, are included within the State, having description of district or circuit courts, Be it further enacted, common law juThat every court of record, in any individual State, having and clerk, &c. to common law jurisdiction, and a seal, and clerk or prothono- be considered as tary, shall be considered as a district court within the mean- a district court, ing of this act; and every alien, who may have been natu- of naturalization ralized in any such court, shall enjoy, from and after the passing of the act, the same rights and privileges, as if he had been naturalized in a district or circuit court of the United States.

for the purposes

the laws of the

law, prior to the

the United States

ered as citizens.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the children of per- The children of sons duly naturalized under any of the laws of the United persons duly na States, or who, previous to the passing of any law on that sub-turalized under ject, by the government of the United States, may have be- United States, or come citizens of any one of the said States, under the laws under any State thereof, being under the age of twenty-one years, at the time of passing any law their parent's being so naturalized or admitted to the rights of on the subject by citizenship, shall, if dwelling in the United States, be consider- being under 21, ed as citizens of the United States; and the children of persons &c. to be considwho now are, or have been, citizens of the United States, shall, Children of citi though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United zens, born &c. States, be considered as citizens of the United States: Provi- Proviso: the ded, that the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons right of citizenwhose fathers have never resided within the United States: ship, &c. Provided also, That no person heretofore proscribed by any Proviso: no perState, or who has been legally convicted of having joined son proscribed, the army of Great Britain during the late war, shall be ad- victed of having mitted a citizen, as aforesaid, without the consent of the Legis- joined the Brilature of the State in which such person was proscribed.

or legally con

tish army, &c

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