May 26, 1824.

Conditions on which an alien, being a free white person

may become a

United States.

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.

AN ACT in further addition to "An act to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.” 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 and a minor, States three years next preceding his arriving at the age of citizen of the 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 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 first condition of the first section of the act to which this is an addition three years previous to his admission: Provided, 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 bonafide 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.

Proviso.

No certificate of citizenship or

heretofore ob

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

Act of 1816.

Declaration required by the

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the declaration refirst section of quired by the first condition specified in the first section of the to be valid on act to which this is an addition shall, if the same has been bona

the former act

certain conditions.

fide made before the clerk of either of the courts in the said condition named, be as valid as if it had been made before the said courts respectively.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That a declaration by any alien, being a free white person, of his intended application to be admitted a citizen of the United States, made, in the manner and form prescribed in the first condition specified in the first section of the act to which this is in addition, two years before his admission, shall be a sufficient compliance with said condition, anything in the said act, or in any subsequent act, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, May 26, 1824.

Adeclaration of

intention inade

two years be

fore his admis

sion shall be

sufficient.

AN ACT to amend the acts concerning naturalization. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second section of the act entitled, “An act to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject," which was passed on the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, and the first section of the act entitled, “An act relative to evidence 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.

May 24, 1828.

Second section

of the act of

14th April, 1802,

and 22d March,

1816, repealed.

Any alien, being son, who was residing within the limits, &c.,

a free white per

of the United

April 14, 1802,

1812, to become

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any alien, being a free white person, who was 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 States between eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and and June 18, twelve, and who has continued to reside within the same, a citizen. 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.

June 26, 1848.

Repeal of clause

AN ACT to amend the act entitled, "An act for the regulation of seamen on board the public and private vessels of the United States," passed the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirteen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the last clause of the twelfth section of the act hereby amended, consisting of the following words, to wit, "without being at any residence of five time during the said five years out of the territory of the Uni

of act of March

3, 1813, requi

ring a continued

years in the Uni

ted States pre- ted States," be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

vious to natu

ralization.

Approved, June 26, 1848.

LAWS OF THE SEVERAL STATES

RELATIVE TO

IMMIGRANTS, IMPORTATION OF PAUPERS, CONVICTS, LUNATICS, &c.

ALABAMA.

Captain of vessel bringing paupers to the State, to give bond to indemnify the StatePenalty for refusal.

ANY person commanding any vessel which brings into this State any infant, lunatic, maimed, deaf, dumb, aged, or infirm person, who is likely to become chargeable to any county, may be brought before any judge of probate; and if such judge is satisfied that such person will probably be a charge to any county, he must require such master to enter into bond, payable to the State, with sureties resident in the State, to be approved by such judge, in the sum of five hundred dollars for each of such persons so brought, conditioned to pay all such expenses as any county in the State may incur in the support of such person; which bond must be filed and kept by such Judge; and on its condition being broken, may be sued on, and a recovery had in different actions to the amount of the penalty thereof, in the name of the State, for the use of any county; and on failure to give such bond, the judge must commit such master to jail until he gives the same, or is otherwise discharged by law. [Sec. 1219.] Code of Alabama, chap. 15, p. 268, 269.

CONNECTICUT.

Importing foreign convicts.

SEC. 115. No person convicted of any crime in a foreign country, and sentenced therefor to be transported abroad, shall be imported into this State; and every person who shall import or bring into this State any such convict, or aid or assist therein, knowing such person, so imported, to be a convict, and sentenced as aforesaid, shall be punished by a fine of three hundred and thirty-four dollars, for every such convict so imported. [Re

CALIFORNIA.

AN ACT to prevent the importation of convicts into this State. [Passed April 11, 1850.]

The people of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. No captain or master of any vessel, or any other person or persons shall, knowingly or willingly, import, bring, or send, or cause or procure to be imported, brought, or sent, or be aiding or assisting therein, into this State, by land or water, any felon, convict, or person under sentence of death or transportation, or any other legal disability incurred by a criminal prosecution, except for treason, or who shall be delivered or sent to him from any prison or place of confinement in any place without the State.

SEC. 2. Every person who shall offend against any of the provisions of the preceding section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail, for a term not less than three months, and shall forfeit and pay, moreover, the sum of one thousand dollars for each of such convicts so imported, brought, or sent into this State; one half of which penalty shall go to him or her who shall sue or prosecute for the same, and the other half to the county in which such prosecution shall be had.

GEORGIA.

AN ACT to prevent felons, transports from other States, coming into or residing in this. [Approved Feb. 10, 1787. Vol. 1, 234.]

In order to prevent the dangerous evils arising from the communication with felons, transported from other States or nations, whereby the morals of many who would otherwise be good citizens may be corrupted, that from and immediately after the passing of this act, no person or persons, felons from other countries or States, transported or banished from the same for any crime or charge whatever, shall be eligible to any post, office of trust or profit, or be otherwise entitled to any of the privileges, immunities, or liberties of a freeman or freemen of this State; and on proof of the same by one legal evidence, or by the authentic certificate, under seal of any State, nation, corporation, or court, from whence he, she, or they may be banished or transported, such felon or felons shall be, by warrant and mittimus, under the hand of the chief justice of the State, or one of the justices of the court where such proof shall be established, committed to the common jail of the country, without bail or mainprize, there to remain until a convenient opportunity may be procured, by the honorable the executive, to ship or otherwise send off such felon or felons, from and without the limits of this State, never thereafter to return. And in case such