Redemption offiees in Detroit. countersigned by the register, as provided by this act, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convic tion thereof, shall be punishable by imprisonment not exceeding three years, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the State prison, at the discretion of the Court. SEC. 55. Every bank, association or individual banker, organized under the provisions of this act, and issuing bills of circulation, shall, before issuing any such bills or notes, appoint an agent, who shall keep an office in the city of Detroit for the redemption of circulating notes issued by such bank, association or individual banker, which shall be presented to such agent for redemption or payment. It shall be the duty Greulating Notes of every such bank to redeem and pay on demand all circulain city of Detroit ting notes issued by said bank, presented for redemption or ne half of one payment at the office of their said agent in the city of Detroit, to be redeemed on demand at per cent. Appointment of Agents to be in writing. Appointment may be revoked. Appointment to be published. at onehalf of one per cent. discount, and every such bank, whose agent shall neglect or refuse to redeem their notes on demand at the rate aforesaid, shall pay to the person making such demand, interest at the rate of twenty per cent. per annum upon the notes so demanded, and if such redemption and payment of interest is not made at said agency within ten days from the time when first demanded, the same proceedings shall be had as are by this act provided in case of refusal by any bank to redeem its bills when presented at its own office. SEC. 56. Such appointment shall be in writing, and a copy thereof shall be delivered to the State Treasurer and filed in his office, before he shall deliver to such bank, association or individual banker, any notes or bills countersigned as aforesaid; and any bank, association, individual banker or other person, may be an agent for the purpose of this act; and if any such bank or banker shall omit to appoint such agent before commencing, the State Treasurer shall appoint such agent for such bank. SEC. 57. Appointments of agents made in pursuance of this act, may be revoked and new appointments made from time. to time, by delivering such revocation and appointment to the State Treasurer, who shall cause the same to be published as hereinafter mentioned. SEC. 58. The Treasurer shall, immediately after the receipt of such appointment, cause the same to be published in some newspaper published in the city of Detroit, for such time as he may deem proper, the expenses whereof shall be paid by such bank, association or individual banker. to Banks not to take up Notes at less to than amount due SEC. 59. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorize any bank, association or individual banker, purchase, buy in or take up, directly or indirectly, their circulating notes, at an amount less than what purports to be due thereon, at any other place, or in any other manner, than is directed in and by this act. thereon. submitted to SEC. 60. This act shall be submitted to the electors of this This Act to be State, for their approval or disapproval, at the next general Electors. election. At said election a ballot box shall be provided and kept by the several Boards of Inspectors thereof, for receiving Manner of voting the votes cast for or against this act; and on the ballot shall be written or printed, or partly written or partly printed, the words "A General Banking Law, Yes," or "A General Banking Law, No." SEC. 61. The canvass of the votes cast for or against this act, and the returns thereof, shall be made by the proper canvassing officers, within the same time, and in the manner as now provided by law for the canvass and the return of the votes cast at the said general election, and the result be declared by the board of canvassers at the same time and manner as the result of the canvass for State officers; and if it shall appear that a majority of the votes cast at such election have thereon "A General Banking Law, Yes," this act shall become a law, and take effect within sixty days after said general election. on the question. not to be issued. SEC. 62. It shall not be lawful for any bank, association or Fractional Bills individual banker organized under the provisions of this act, to issue circulating notes for fractional sums of money. NATURALIZATION OF ALIENS. ABSTRACT OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES IN RELATION Who may be admitted as Citi Lens. Form of Declaration; to be made admission; before Act of May 26, 4. 7 do 40 2 Galli., C. C. R., 11. Peters C. C. R., 457. SECTION 1. Any alien, being a free white person, may become a citizen of the United States, or any of them, on the following conditions, and not otherwise: SEC. 2. First, that he shall have declared, on oath or two years prior to affirmation, before the Supreme, Superior, District, or Circuit whom made. Court, of some one of the States, or of the territorial districts 1-24, Sec 3, and of the United States, or a Circuit or District Court of the Story, 1973, 393. United States, or before the Clerk of either of such Courts, 8 Cranch, 335. two years at least before his admission, that it was, bona fide, 'his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Act of April 14, prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever; and paricularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, whereof such alien may, at the time, be a citizen or subject. Certain persons SEC. 3. From this condition are exempted, any alien, being preceding provi a free white person, who was residing within the limits and Act of March 28, under the jurisdiction of the United States at any time 1802 Story, 830. exempted from sions. 1894, Sec. 1. Story, 942. Admission of Mi nors who arrive States when not between the eighteenth day of June, 1778, and the fourteenth day of April, 1802, and who has continued to reside within the same. SEC. 4. Any alien, being a free white person and a minor, in the United under the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided in eighteen the United States three years next preceding his arrival at act of May 26, the age of twenty-one years, and who shall have continued Over years of age. 1824, Sec. 1. Etory, 1973. 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 he 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 declaration required in the second section, three years previous to his admission; but, such alien shall make the declaration required 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 intention 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. children of de deemed citizens. 1804, Sec. 2. SEC. 5. When an alien, who shall have complied with the When widow and condition specified in section second, and who shall have ceased alien pursued the directions prescribed in the second section of the Act of March 26, Act of April 14, 1802,* may die before he is actually natural story, 942. ized, the widow and 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. mission. 1802, Sec. 1. SEC. 6. An alien shall, at the time of his application to be oath upon adadmitted, declare, on oath or affirmation, before some one of Act of April 14, the Courts aforesaid, that he will support the Constitution of story, 850. the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state or sover eignty whereof he was before a citizen or a subject; which proceedings shall be recorded by the Clerk of the Court. ter and resi mission; and by made. 1802, Sec 1. SEC. 7. The Court admitting such alien shall be satisfied Proof of charac that he has resided within the United States five years, at dence, before adleast, and within the State or Territory where such Court whom to be is at the time held, one year at least; and it shall further act of April 14, appear to their satisfaction, that, during that time, he has story, 850. behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same. The oath of the applicant shall, in no case, be allowed to prove his residence. hereditary title, SEC. 8. In case the alien applying to be admitted to citizen- Alien to renounce ship, shall have borne any hereditary title, or been of any of re cord thereof the orders of nobility in the kingdom or State from which country at peace he came, he shall, in addition to the above requisites, make States. to be citizen of with United Since repealed. It require an alien, when he arrived in the United States, to have his name egistered, etc, with the Clerk of the proper Court, etc. 1802, Sec. 1. Story, 850. Act of April 14, an express renunciation of his title or order of nobility, in the Court to which his application shall be made; which renunciation shall be recorded in the said Court: Provided, That no alien, who shall be a native citizen, denizen, or subject of any country, state or sovereign with whom the United States shall be at war at the time of his application, shall be then admitted to be a citizen of the United States. As to Aliens residing in the SEC. 9. But persons resident within the United States, or United States in the territories thereof, on the eighteenth day of June, in the Act of July 30, year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, who had, before 1812. 1813. Story, 1354. Biding in the Uni tween 1802 and 1812. that day, made a declaration according to law, of their intention to become citizens of the United States; or who, bythe existing laws of the United States, were, on that day, entitled to become citizens, without making such declaration, may be admitted to become citizens thereof, notwithstanding they shall be alien enemies, at the times, and in the manner prescribed by the laws heretofore passed on that subject: Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall be taken or construed to interfere with, or prevent the apprehension and removal, agreeably to law, of any alien enemy, at any time previous to the actual naturalization of such alien. As to Aliens re- SEC. 10. Any alien, being a free white person, who was ted States be residing within the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States between the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, and the eighteenth day of Bee Story, 1351. June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and who has Act of May 24, 1828. Story, 2145, and continued to reside within the same, 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 |