Fot what time. tinued in force, for and during the term of two years, from the commencement of the prefent year. NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefi- APPROVED-APRIL 14, 1802. TH: JEFFERSON. Part of a for mer law not to operate upon unregistered hips, &c. In certain cafes, .CHAPTER XXVI. AN ACT to amend an act, intituled "An act to retain a further fum on drawbacks, for the expences incident to the allowance and payment thereof, and in lieu of Stamp duties on debentures.' E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the fecond fection of the act, entituled, "An act to retain a further fum on drawbacks, for the expences incident to the allowance and payment thereof, and in lieu of stamp duties on debentures," fhall not be deemed to operate upon unregistered ships or veffels owned by the citizens of the United States, at the time of paffing the faid act, in those cafes where fuch fhip or veffel, at that time, poffeffed a fea letter, or other regular document iffued from a custom-house of the United States, proving fuch fhip or veffel to be American property. the Secretary of the Treafury to caufe a iffued to an unregistered entitling her to certain pri certificate to be ship or veftel, vileges. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Upon proof, whenever fatisfactory proof fhall be made to the secretary of the treafury, that any unregistered fhip or veffel was, in fact, the property, in whole, of a citizen or citizens of the United States, on the thirteenth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred, that the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be iffued to fuch fhip or veffel, a certificate, which fhall entitle fuch unregiftered fhip or veffel to the fame privileges which are herein before granted to unregiftered fhips or veffels owned by citizens of the United States, and carrying a fea letter, or other regular document iffued from a cuftom-house of the United States, before the paffing of the faid act, intituled "An act to retain a further fum on drawbacks, for the expenses incident to the allowance and payment thereof, and in lieu of ftamp duties on debentures." NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Pre- APPROVED, APRIL 14th, 1802. TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER XXVII. AN ACT for the relief of Paolo Paoly BER K Specific ap- of America, in Congress affembled, That NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Pre- APPROVED, APRIL 14th, 1802. TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER XXVIII. AN ACT to establish an uniform rule of natu- E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of BER 1 be of America, in Congress affembled, That. An alien may become a citiany alien being a free white perfon, may zen of the admitted to become a citizen of the United United States: States, or any of them, on the following conditions, and not otherwife : First, That he fhall have declared, on oath or affirmation, before the fupreme, fuperior, district or circuit court of fome one of the ftates, or of the territorial districts. of the United States, or a circuit or diftrict court of the United States, three years at least, before his admiffion, that it was, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce for ever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or fovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state or fovereignty whereof fuch alien may, at the time, be a citizen or fubject. Secondly, That he fhall, at the time of his application to be admitted, declare on oath or affirmation, before fome one of the courts aforefaid, that he will fupport the conftitution of the United States, and that he doth abfolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, ftate or fovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen fubject; which proceedings fhall be recorded by the clerk of the court. Thirdly, That the court admitting fuch alien fhall be fatisfied that he has refided within the United States five years at least, and within the state or territory where fuch On what con¬ ditions. ditions an alien may be naturalized. On what con- court is at the time held, one year at least ; and it fhall further appear to their fatisfaction, that during that time, he has behaved. as a man of a good moral character, attached to the principles of the conftitution of the United States, and well difpofed to the good order and happiness of the fame: Provided, That the oath of the applicant fhall, in no cafe, be allowed to prove his refidence. Fourthly, That in cafe the alien, applying to be admitted to citizenship, fhall have borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the orders of nobility in the kingdom or ftate from which he came, he fhall, in addition to the above requifites make an exprefs renunciation of his title or order of nobility in the court to which his application fhall be made, which renunciation fhall bet recorded in the faid court: Provided, That no alien who fhall be a native citizen, denizen or fubject of any country, state or fovereign, with whom the United States fhall be at war, at the time of his application, fhall be then admitted to be a citizen of the United States: Provided alfo, That any alien who was refiding within the limits, and under the jurifdiction of the United States, before the twenty-ninth day of January, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-five, may be admitted to become a citizen, on due proof made to fome one of the courts aforefaid, that he has refided two years, at least, within and under the jurif diction of the United States, and one year, at least, immediately preceding his applica |