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and to each individual concerned the be required, a certificate, under his h such report and registry; and for re each report of an individual or fam cents, and for each certificate granted an individual or family, fifty cents; a be exhibited to the court by every ali United States after the passing of th to be naturalized, as evidence of the t the United States.

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SEC. 3. And whereas doubts have courts of record in some of the States description of district or circuit courts That every court of record in any indi mon law jurisdiction, and a seal an shall be considered as a district court this act; and every alien who may any such court shall enjoy, from and act, the same rights and privileges a ized in a district or circuit court of th SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, sons duly naturalized under any of States, or who, previous to the passin ject by the government of the United citizens of any one of the said States, being under the age of twenty-one y parents being so naturalized or admi

et entitled "An act to establish an uniform rule of epeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.

Senate and House of Representatives of nerica in Congress assembled, That any te person, who was residing within the urisdiction of the United States at any eenth day of June, one thousand seven ight, and the fourteenth day of April, ndred and two, and who has continued me, may be admitted to become a citizen. vithout a compliance with the first confirst section of the act entitled "An act -m rule of naturalization, and to repeal sed on that subject."

ther enacted, That when any alien who with the first condition specified in the 1 original act, and who shall have purescribed in the second section of the said is actually naturalized, the widow and ien shall be considered as citizens of the all be entitled to all rights and priviking the oaths prescribed by law.

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*The oath of naturalization, when taken, con not necessary that there should be an order of co a citizen.--Campbell v. Gordon et al., 6 Cr. 176. record of naturalization that all the requisites pres aliens have been complied with.-Stark v. Chesap

The citizens of each State shall be entitled to citizens in the several States.-Con. art. 4, sec. 2. Citizens of the United States have a right to ex as well as of peace, until restrained by Congress. trol of the Legislature, and to render the exercise departure from the United States for a purpose w the duties at home of the emigrant.-Talbot v. Trinidad, 7 Wheat. 548.-See U. S. v. Williams, V. Gillies, 1 Pet. 161.

A citizen of the United States by becoming a ci thereby cease to be a citizen of the United States, nal allegiance. Ibid. ibid. He may acquire in privileges attached to his domicil, and be exempt cial acts embracing only persons resident in the tion. Murray v. Charming Betsy, 2 Cranch, 120.

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o a certificate from the proper clerk or laration of intention, made before a ired as the first condition, according act, shall be exhibited by every alien, admitted a citizen of the United States t, who shall have arrived within the isdiction of the United States since the e, one thousand eight hundred and be recited at full length in the record such alien: otherwise he shall not be with the conditions requisite for beUnited States; and any pretended adshall have arrived within the limits on of the United States since the said e, one thousand eight hundred and ter the promulgation of this act, withcertificate at full length, shall be of no he act aforesaid.

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AN ACT in further addition to "An act to es alization, and to repeal the acts heretofore

Be it enacted by the Senate and Ho the United States of America in Cong alien, being a free white person, and of twenty-one years, who shall have States three years next preceding hi twenty-one years, and who shall ha therein to the time he may make app citizen thereof, may, after he arrives years, and after he shall have reside United States, including the three yea mitted a citizen of the United States declaration required in the first con

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