Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-06

dav OF June, one tnOulatu IeYSl 4t0lsuAeu
and ninety eight, may, within two years
after the palilng Of this act, be admitted
to become citizen, without compliance
with the hra condition above ipec.iled.
Sec. Z. Provided a5fo, and BE- itfnrtbef
rnaasd, That in addition to the direction
alorelsid, all free white perfons, being a.
liens, who may arrive in the United States
after the pafing Of this acf, ihall IN order
TO become citizens of the United States,
make regiitry, and obtain certificates IN
the following manner, to vii: every per-
fon deirous of being naturalized ihall, If
of the age of twenty years, make re-
port Of himfelf; or if, under age Of rWen-
ty-one years, or held in fervice, hall be
reported by his parent, guardian, matter or
mifuels, 10 the clerk Of the oiitritf court
of the diitria where iach alien or aliens
lhall arrive, or TO fome other court OF re-
cord of the United States, or OF either OF
the territorial diftries of the fame or OF a
particular fate; and fuch report lhall al
certain the name, birth, place, age, nation
and allegiance ofeach alien, together with
the country whence he or Che migrated,
and the place of his or her intended lei
clement: and it fhall be the duty OF ilch
clerk, on receiving fqch report, 10 record
the fame in his office, and to grant . the
perfon making fuch report, and TO each IN
diviiual concerned therein, whenever be-
ihall be required, certificate under his
hand and fealof Office of tach report and
regiNry; and for receiving and regiAer-
ing each report Of an individual or family,
he fhall receive fifty cents; and for each
certificate granted purfuant to this act, to
an an individual or family, fifty cents
and fnch certificate lilaiI be exhibited to
the court by every alien who may arrive
in the United States, after the paiiing OF
this at, on his application TO be natura-
LIKED, as evidence OF the time OF his arri-
val within the United States.
Sec. 8. md zv6erras, doubts have ari.
fen whether certain courts OF record In
fome of the hates, are included within the
defcription of diaria or circuit courts
Be il Jnuber tnal7ed, that every court of
record in any individual fate, having com-
mon law jurillittion, and feal and clerk
or prothonotory, hall be confdered as a
difriet court, within the meaning OF this
act and every alien, who may have been
naturalized in any fuch court, fhail enjoy,
from and after the pa6;ng Of the atf, the
fame rights and privileges as if he had been
naturslized in difr;tt OF circuit court Of
the u. States.
Sec. 4. Amdb< il fartber taaafd, That
the children of perions duly naturslized
under any of the laws of the United States,
or who, previous to the pafing ofany law
on that fubjea, by the government Of the
United States, may have become citizens
Of any one of the faid fates, under the
laws thereof, being under the age Of twen-
ty one years, at The time Of their parents
being 70 naturalized or admitted to the
rights Of citizenlhip hall, if dwelling in
the United States, be conGdered as citi-
zens of the United States, and the chill
dren of perions who now are, or have been
citizens Of the United States, fhall tho
born out Of the limits and jurildittion of
the u. States, be conhdered as citizens of
the United States: ProVided, that the
right Of citizenGlip fhall not deicerd TO
perions Whole fathers have never reiided
within the u. States Pr,vided alo, that
no perfon heretofore -proieribed by any
fate, or who has been legally convicted
Of having joined the army Of G. Britain
during the late war, fhall be admitted
citizen as aforeiaid without the content Of
the Legislature Of the fate in which fuch
perlon was profcribed.
Sec. 5. Ind be il farfber eeaf7ed, Thar
all acts heretofore paded, reipecting na4u-