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. "ding in the Unit tween 1798, and of residence re set forth in re. admission valid. 1816, Sec 2. SEC: 11. Nothing in the foregoing section ten contained, As to Aliens resishall be construed to exclude from admission to citizenship, ed States be any free white person who was residing within the limits 1802; what proof and under the jurisdiction of the United States at any time quired, and how between the eighteenth day of June, one thousand seven cord to render hundred and ninety-eight, and the fourteenth day of April, Act of March 22, one thousand eight hundred and two, and who, having contin- Story, 1539. ued 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 section three. 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. Aliens, etc., SEC. 12. The children of persons duly naturalized under any What children of of the laws of the United States, or who, previous to the deemed citizens passing of any law on that subject, by the government of the sons not to be adUnited States, may have become citizens of any one of the Act of April 14, States, under the laws thereof, being under the age of twenty-Story $50. mitted. 1802, Sec. 4. 6 Cranch, 176. As to Aliens residing in the prior to 1795. 1802, Sec. 1. Story, 850. one years, at the time of their parents' being so naturalized or admitted to the rights of citizenship, shall, if dwelling in the United States, be considered as citizens of the United States; and the children of persons who now are, or have been citizens of the United States, shall, though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, be considered as citizens of the United States. The right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never resided within the United States. And no person heretofore proscribed by any State, or who has been legally convicted of having joined the army of Great Britain during the war of the revolution, shall be admitted a citizen, without the consent of the Legislature of the State in which such person was proscribed. Children of persons naturalized before the fourteenth of April, 1802, under age at the time of their parents' naturalization, were, if dwelling in the United States on the fourteenth of April, 1802, to be considered as citizens of the United States. SEC. 13. Any alien who was residing within the limits, and United States under the jurisdiction of the United States, before the twentyAct of April 14, ninth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninetyfive, may be admitted to become a citizen, on due proof made to some one of the Courts aforesaid, that he has resided two years at least, within and under the jurisdiction of the United 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 entititled to such admission; all of which proceedings, required in this proviso to be performed in the Court, shall be recorded by the clerk thereof. Courts may a d Act of April 14, SEC. 14. Every Court of Record, in any individual State, what State having common law jurisdiction, and a seal or Clerk or mit aliens. Prothonotary, shall be considered as a District Court, within 1802, Sec. 3. the meaning of the naturalization act; and every alien, who may have been naturalized in any such Court, shall enjoy the same rights and privileges, as if he had been naturalized in a District or Circuit Court of the United States. of Alien who ar States after 1815. SEC. 15. No person who shall arrive in the United States, Five years residence required after February the seventeenth, 1815, shall be admitted to before admission become a citizen of the United States, who shall not, for the rives in United continued term of five years next preceding his admission, Act of March 3, have resided within the United States, without being at any Story, 1304. time during the said five years, out of the territory of the United States. 1813. Legislative Acts Seal and Certifi eate of Judge. AUTHENTICATION OF THE RECORDS, ETC., OF THE SEVERAL STATES. AN ACT TO PRESCRIBE THE MODE IN WHICH THE PUBLIC ACTS, IN CONGRESS, MAY 26, 1790. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the acts of the Legis latures of the several States shall be authenticated by having ings by Clerk, the seal of their respective States affixed thereto; that the records and judicial proceedings of the Courts of any State shall be proved or admitted, in any other Court within the United States, by the attestation of the Clerk, and the seal of the Court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certifi cate of the Judge, Chief Justice or presiding magistrate, as the case may be, that the said attestation is in due form. And Faith and credit the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as the United aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them, in every Court within the United States, as they have, by law or usage, in the Courts of the State from whence the said records are, or shall be taken. in Courts within States. AN ACT SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT 10 IN CONGRESS, MARCH 27, 1804. Record and ex- SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., That from and after the emplifications of office books, kept passage of this act, all records and exemplifications of office books, which are or may be kept in any public office of any in any public of State, not appertaining to a Court, shall be proved, or admitted, ficate, etc. in fice, Seal, Certi any other Court or office in any other State, by the attestation of the keeper of the said records or books, and the seal of his office thereto annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the presiding Justice of the Court of the County, or district, as the case may be, in which such office is or may be kept; or of the Governor, the Secretary of State, the Chancellor, or the keeper of the great seal of the State, that the said attestation is in due form, and by the proper officer; and the said certificate, if given by the presiding Justice of a Court, shall be further authenticated by the Clerk or Prothonotary of the said Court, who shall certify, under his hand and the seal of his office, that the said presiding Justice is duly commissioned and qualified; or if the said certificate be given by the Governor, the Secretary of State, the Chancellor, or keeper of the great seal, it shall be under the great seal of the State in which the said certificate is made. And the said records and Records, etc. to exemplifications, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such credit given to faith and credit given to them in every Court and office within the United States, as they have, by law or usage, in the Courts or offices of the State from whence the same are, or shall be taken. have faith and them, etc. this Act, etc., to lic Acts, etc., of SEC. 2. That all the provisions of this act, and the act to The provisions of which this is a supplement, shall apply, as well to the public apply to the pubacts, records, office books, judicial proceedings, Courts and the States, etc. offices of the respective territories of the United States, and countries subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, as to the public acts, records, office books, judicial proceedings, Courts and offices of the several States. |