United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 116
Chap. CXVI.—An Act to amend the acts concerning naturalization.[1]
Second section of the act of April 14, 1802, ch. 28, and March 22, 1816, ch. 32, repealed.
Any alien, being a free white person, who was residing within the limits, &c., of the United States, between April 14, 1802, and June 18, 1812, to become a citizen.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 an 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passed on the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
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 eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and who has 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:Proviso. 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.
- ↑ See notes of the acts relating to naturalization, vol. i. 103.