The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-10-30
naturalization Laws.

the following conditions;
l. By making, in any court of record, a
declaration of his intention to become a citi-
zen, and which must be made at least two
years before his admission as a citizen.
2 In addition to the declaration, he must
have resided in the United States five years
at least, before his admission, and within
the State or territory where he makes ap-
plication, he must reside at least one year
before making such application. His resi-
dence and good character must be proved
by one witness, citizen of the United
States, and in no case can the oath of the
applicant be admitted to prove his residence.
(Act Of April IA, 1902
SECOND.
An alien under the age of twenty one
years, who resided in the United States
three years next preceding his coming of
age and shall have resided FIVE years in the
United States, including the three years of
his minority, on proof of such residence, and
that for the last three years it was his in-
tention to become citizen. Act of May
IS, 1854.
The children of persons naturalized,
being under the age of twenty-one years at
the time of the naturalization, shall be con-
sidered citizens and the children of the
citizens of the United States, though born
out of the jurisdiction OF the United States,
shall also be considered citizens Act OF
April IA, 1902.
II after an alien has declared his inten-
ton to bect me citizen under the act of
April IA, 1902, lac die, his children shall be
deemed citizeLs. nor~ outstanding their pa
rent might not hate bern actually natural
lied. Act of March &C. 1904.
FIFTH.
All aliens arriving in the United States
since I T.. II, 1915, must have had con-
tinued residence therein for fUe years next
proceed =. their admission as citizens "with-
out beng at any time during said fl We years
out of the territory of the United States"
Act of March Sd, 1912, Sec. 2.
From the provisions of the act OF April
IA, 1852, requiring a previous declaration
of intention, the following exceptions have
been made, by which the declaration of in
tention is not required:
Ist An alien who resided within the
limits and jurisdiction of the United States,
before Jan. 90, 1875, may be admitted
citizen on proof of residence of two years
in the United States, and one year at least
in the State where he applied for admission.
I'd Any alien who has resided within the
limits and jurisdiction of the United States,
between January l9, 1875, and June le,
1898, may within two years from April IA,
1902, he admitted a citizen on proof of resi-
dence of two years within the United States
GAct of April Is, 1902
3D. Any alien who has resided in the
United States between June II, 1898, and
April IA, 1902, and continuing so to do,
may become citizen on the proof of resi-
dence of two years. Act of March rs,
1916.
4. Any alien who resided in the United
States between April "a, 1902, and June
l9, 1912, and who has continued to reside
within the same, may be admitted a citizen
provided he has resided within the limits OF
the United States before June 18, 1912, and
has continued to reside within the same, and
his residence within the limits and under
the Jurisdiction of the United States, for at
least FIVE years Immediately preceding his
application, shall be proved by two witness
es,; citizens, of the United States, and
also his place of residence during that
time. Act of May "a, 1925
An Act to amend the act entitled An
Act for the Regulation of Seamen on board
the public and private vessels of the United
States" passed March 3, 1913, is amended
by the Act Of June 26, 1e4s, by repeating
the last clause of the 18th section, consisting
of the following words, to wit: without
being at any time during the said FIVE years
out of the territory of the United States.
RESIDENCE, &c,
In the case of Roosevelt vs.. Kellogg, 2C
Johnson's Reports, p. 2l0, the court says
resident is synonymous with inhabitant
one that resides in place"
In the case of Fitzgerald, Gaines Re
ports, p. $40, it was held that subject O
Great Britain, who had been several year.
trading in this country, was a non-residen
here, the "intention of returning having
been laid aside.
In the case of Wrigley, WendelPs Re
ports, p. 1874, the court of errors held that /
man who came to New York in 1921, auC
remained in business there till 1928, as
commission merchant, and then went Il
England, but returned and applied to on
courts here for a discharge under the in
solvent act of the State of New York, al
leging that he was an inhabitant of thi
State, was not an inhabitant of this State
An alien removing into the territory O
Louisiana after it was ceded to the UniteC
States, and residing therein until after it
admission into the Union as a State, doe
not thereby become citizen of the Unitet
States The State VS.. Primrose, Sd Ala
546.1
A child born in the country, continuin,
while under age in the family Of the father
is supposed to adopt his national characte
as citizen of that country.-TShanks VS.
Dupont, Sd Peters Rep. 2421
A woman docs not lose her national char
acter by marrying an alien, whether frien,