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United States. Congress of the United States: At the second session, begun and held at the city of New-York, on Monday the fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety. :An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization. [New York : Printed by Childs and Swaine, 1790].
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Congrefs of the United States :
AT THE SECOND SESSION,
Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the Fourth of January, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety.
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Q An ACT to eftablifh an uniform Rule of Naturalization.
HE it enacledby the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congrefs affembled, That any alien, being a free white perfon, who fhall have refided within the limits and under thejurifdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof, on application to any Common Law Court of Record, in any one of the States wherein he fhall have refided for the term of one year at leaft, and making proof to the fatisfaclion of fuch Court, that he is aperfon of good character, and taking the oath or affirmation prefcribed by law, to fupport the Conftitution of the United States, which oath or affirmation fuch Court fhall adminifter, and the Clerk of fuch Court fhall record fuch application, and the proceedings thereon ; and thereupon fuch perfon,fhall be confidered as a citizen of the United States. And the children of fuch perfon fo naturalized, dwelling within the United States, being under the age of twenty-one years at the time of fuch naturalization, fhall alfo be confidered as citizens of the United States. And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond fea, or out of the limits of the United States, fhall be
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confidered as natural born citizens: Provided, That the right of citizenfhip fhall not defcend to perfons whofe fathers have never been refident in the United States: Provided alfo, That no perfon heretofore profcribed by any State, fhall be admitted a citizen as aforefaid, except by an acT: of the Legifla-ture of the State in which fuch perfon was profcribed.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-P refident of the United States, ■
and Prefident of the Senate.
Approved, March 26th, 1790.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States.