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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all acts heretofore resecting natu- passed respecting naturalization, be, and the same are hereby

ralization, re.

peated.

repealed.

Approved, April 14, 1802.

alien, resident

time between the

April. 1802, &c..

AN ACT in addition to an act, entitled "An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentaAny free white tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That within the Uni- any alien, being a free white person, who was residing within ted States at any the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States, at 18th June, 1798, any time between the eighteenth day of June, one thousand and the 14th seven hundred and ninety-eight, and the fourteenth day of April, one thousand, eight hundred and two, and who has continued to reside within the same, may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, without a compliance with the first condition specified in the first section of the act, entitled "An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject."

may become a

citizen without

complying with

the condition re

ferred to.

complied with

the first condi

tion, &c. and

dying before ar

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any alien, who Aliens who have shall have complied with the first condition specified in the first section of the said original act, and who shall have pursued the directions prescribed in the second section of the said act, may die, before he is actually naturalized, the widow and tion, the widow the children of such alien shall be considered as citizens of the United States; and shall be entitled to all rights and privileges as such, upon taking the oaths prescribed by law. Approved, March 26, 1804.

tuai naturaliza

and children to

be considered as citizens, &c.

dence of 5 years

AN ACT for the regulation of seamen on board the public and private vessels of the United States.

Sec. 12. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentaContinued resi- tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the United no person who shall arrive in the United States, from and afStates, necessary ter the time when this act shall take effect, shall be admitted to cry a per- to become a citizen of the United States, who shall not, for the continued term of five years, next preceding his admission as aforesaid, have resided within the United States, without being, at any time during the said five years, out of the territory of the United States.

son to become a

cltizea, &c.

Approved, March 8, 1813.

AN ACT supplementary to the acts heretofore passed on the subject of an uniform rule of naturalization.

in the United

before that day,

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Persons resident persons resident within the United States, or the Territories States, on 18th thereof, on the eighteenth day of June, in the year one thou- June, 1812, and, sand eight hundred and twelve, who had, before that day, made had made a dea declaration, according to law, of their intentions to become claration of their citizens of the United States; or who, by the existing laws of come citizens, or the United States, were, on that day, entitled to become citi- who, etc. may be zens, without making such declaration, may be admitted to withstanding become citizens thereof, notwithstanding they shall be alien they may be a enemies, at the times, and in the manner, prescribed by the

intentions to be

admitted, not

lien enemies?

laws heretofore passed on that subject: Provided, That nothing Proviso, nothing herein contained, shall be taken or construed to interfere with, herein to prevent or prevent the apprehension and removal, agreeably to law, of the apprehension any alien enemy, at any time previous to the actual naturalization of such alien.

Approved, July 30, 1813.

and removal of any alien, &'c.

AN ACT relative to evidence in cases of naturalization.

aliens to become

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representalives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Evidence to be the certificate of report and registry, required as evidence of exhibited by the time of arrival in the United States, according to the second citizens of the section of the act of the fourteenth of April, one thousand United States eight hundred and two, entitled "an act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the act heretofore passed on this subject;" and also a certificate from the proper clerk or prothonotary, of the declaration of intention, made before a court of record, and required as the first condition, according to the first section of said act, shall be exhibited by every alien, on his application to be admitted a citizen of the United States, in pursuance of said act, who shall have arrived within the limits, and under the jurisdiction, of the United States, since the eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and shall each be recited at full length, in the record of the court admitting such alien; otherwise, he shall not be deemed to have complied with the conditions requisite for becoming a citizen of the United States: and any pretended admission of an alien, who shall have arrived within the limits, and under the jurisdiction, of the United States, since the eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, to be a citizen after the promulgation of this act, without such recital of each certificate at full length, shall be of no validity or effect under the act aforesaid.

E

Meretofore set

Sec. 2. Provided, and be it enacted, That nothing herein Rights of persons contained, shall be construed to exclude from admission to cititled in the Uni zenship, any free white person who was residing within the lited States saved. mits, and under the jurisdiction, of the United States, at any time between the eighteenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, and who, having continued to reside therein without having made any declaration of intention before a court of record as aforesaid, may be entitled to become a citizen of the United States, according to the act of the twenty-sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, entitled "An act in addition to an act, entitled 'an act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the act heretofore passed on that subject." Whenever any person, without a certificate of such declaration of intention, as aforesaid, shall make application to be admitted a citizen of the United States, it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the court, that the applicant was residing within the limits, and under the jurisdiction, of the United States, before the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, and has continued to reside within the same, or he shall not be so admitted: and the residence of the applicant within the limits, and under the jurisdiction, of the United States, for at least five years immediately preceding the time of such application, shall be proved by the oath or affirmation of citizens of the United States; which citizens shall be named in the record as witnesses. And such continued residence within the limits, and under the jurisdiction, of the United States, when satisfactorily proved, and the place or places where the applicant has resided, for at least five years as aforesaid, shall be stated and set forth, together with the names of such citizens in the record of the court admitting the applicant: otherwise, the same shall not entitle him to be considered and deemed a citizen of the United States.

Approved, March 22, 1816.

Conditions on which an alien,

being a free white person and a minor,

may become a citizen of the United States.

AN ACT in further addition to "An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject."

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any alien, being a free white person and a minor, under the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided in the United States three years next preceding his arriving at the age of twenty one years, and who shall have continued to reside therein to the time he may make application to be admitted a citizen thereof, may, after he arrives at the age of twenty-one years, and after be shall have resided five years within the United

States, including the three years of his minority, be admitted a
citizen of the United States, without having made the declara-
tion required in the first condition of the first section of the act
to which this is in addition, three years previous to his admis-
sion: Provided, Such alien shall make the declaration required Provisa
therein, at the time of his or her admission; and shall further
declare, on oath, and prove to the satisfaction of the court, that,
for three years next preceding, it has been the bona fide inten-
tion of such alien to become a citizen of the United States; and
shall, in all other respects, comply with the laws in regard to
naturalization.

naturalization

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no certificates of citi- No certificate of zenship, or naturalization, heretofore obtained from any court citizenship or of record within the United States, shall be deemed invalid, heretofore ob in consequence of an omission to comply with the requisition tained from any of the first section of the act, entitled "An act relative to evi- ed invalid dence in cases of naturalization," passed the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

court to be deem

section of the

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the declaration re- Declaration re. quired by the first condition specified in the first section of the quired by the 1st act, to which this is in addition, shall, if the same has been bona former act, to be fide made before the clerks of either of the courts in the said valid on certain conditions. condition named, be as valid as if it had been made before the

said courts respectively.

his admission,

ed sufficient.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That a declaration by A declaration of any alien, being a free white person, of his intended applica- intention made tion to be admitted a citizen of the United States, made in the two years before manner and form prescribed in the first condition specified in shall be considerthe first section of the act, to which this in addition, two years before his admission, shall be a sufficient compliance with said condition; any thing in the said act, or any subsequent act, to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, May 26, 1824.

AN ACT to amend the acts concerning naturalization.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa lives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Second section the second section of the act, entitled "An act to establish an of the act of 14th April, 1802, and uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts hereto- 22d March, 1816, fore passed on that subject," which was passed on the four- repealed. teenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, and the first section of the act, entitled "An act relative to evidences in cases of naturalization," passed on the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any alien, being a

a free white per.

son, who was re

limits, of United

and 18th June,

a citizen.

Proviso.

Any alien, being free white person, who was residing within the limits, and under the jurisdiction, of the United States, between the foursiding within the teenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, States, between and the eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred 14th April, 1802, and twelve, and who has continued to reside within the same, 1812, to become may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, without having made any previous declaration of his intention to become a citizen: Provided, That whenever any person, without a certificate of such declaration of intention, shall make application to be admitted a citizen of the United States, it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the court, that the applicant was residing within the limits, and under the jurisdiction, of the United States, before the eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and has continued to reside within the same, or he shall not be so admitted: and the residence of the applicant within the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States, for at least five years immediately preceding the time of such application, shall be proved by the oath or affirmation of citizens of the United States; which citizens shall be named in the record as witnesses: and such continued residence within the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States, when satisfactorily proved, and the place or places where the applicant has resided, for at least five years, as aforesaid, shall be stated and set forth, together with the names of such citizens, in the record of the court admitting the applicant; otherwise the same shall not entitle him to be considered and deemed a citizen of the United States. Approved, May 24, 1828.

any State or Ter.

AN ACT respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their

masters.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That The executive of whenever the executive authority of any State in the Union, ritory, may, on or of either of the territories northwest or south of the river Ohio, shall demand any person as a fugitive from justice, of the from justice to be executive authority of any such State or Territory, to which arrested and giv such person shall have fled, and shall, moreover, produce the per authority. Copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made before a ma

application, cause fugitives

en up to the pro

gistrate of any State or Territory as aforesaid, charging the person so demanded, with having committed treason, felony or other crime, certified as authentic, by the governor or chief magistrate of the State or Territory from whence the person so charged, fled, it shall be the duty of the executive authority of the State or Territory to which such person shall have fled, cause him or her to be arrested and secured, and notice of

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