Naturalization, Embracing the Past History of the Subject and the Present State of the Law in the United States, Great Britain, British Colonies, France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russia, the States of the Germanic Confederation, ...: From the New American Cyclopedia |
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Page 17 - ... by them naturalized, as being born in parts beyond sea, and out of the United States of America, shall come to settle in, and become subjects of this State, shall take an oath of allegiance to this State, and...
Page 20 - The qualifications requisite, and the mode of obtaining naturalization, are at present (1860) as follows. The applicant must be a free white person, and. must have resided in the United States for the continued term of five years next preceding his admission, and one year at least within the state or territory where the court is held that admits him. Two years at least before his admission he must declare on oath or affirmation, before a court of record having common law jurisdiction and a seal and...
Page 5 - ... by any treaty or law of the United States for the benefit of said tribes, and they and their descendants shall thenceforth be admitted to all the rights and privileges of citizens of the United States.
Page 23 - Any woman who might lawfully be naturalized under the existing laws, married, or who shall be married, to a citizen of the United States, shall be deemed and taken to be a citizen.
Page 18 - Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 15 - III. in the declaration of independence was, that he had endeavored to prevent the population of the states by obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners, and by refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither.
Page 20 - ... or before a circuit or district court of the United States, or before a clerk of either of the said courts...
Page 26 - States, from and after the time when this act shall take effect, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, who shall not for the continued term of five years next preceding his admission as aforesaid have resided within the United States [without being at any time during the said five years, out of the territory of the United States].
Page 5 - Personal naturalization is where the privileges of a subject or citizen are conferred upon an individual by the license or letters patent of a sovereign or the act of a legislative body, or are obtained by the individual himself under a general law upon his complying with certain conditions prescribed by the law...
Page 23 - It was formerly questioned whether this latter provision applied to any but the children of parents naturalized before the passage of the act in 1802. Chancellor Kent, in his " Commentaries," inclined to the opinion that the act was prospective, and was designed to embrace the children of persons who should thereafter be naturalized ; and opinions to the same effect were expressed by many eminent jurists. But the point came up for decision in the court of chancery of the state of New York in 1840,...