The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-10-13

| HEADQUARTERS EXECUrIv4s COMMITTEE,
-CoNsERvATIvE l. rRrY
or THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
JACKSON, MISS, OCT. s, 1875.
Ihave received so many Inquiries il
relation to naturalization that it is deem
ed best to answer all in this.circular
Any alien may be .naturalized in the
following manner:
/. He shall have first declared his in
| tention to become citizen, in due form,
before Circuit or District Court of the
United States, or a Court of record of II
State having common law jurisdiction.
Ii this has been done two years, the alien
may then apply for naturalization. If,
however, the alien was a minor when he
arrived in the United States, and has
resided here for three years before his
majority, he may be naturaliZed without
having declared his intention as afore.
said, two years before application. He
may make the declaration when he is
naturalized-but he still must have re-
sided before naturalization. five years
in the United States. And any alien
over twenty-One years of aye may be
naturalized who has enlisted in the L.
charged and has been a resident of the
United States one year.
2. Before naturalization, except in
case of discharged soldier, the alien
must have resided in the United States
five years, and in the State where he is
naturalized, one year.
3. The applicant for naturalization in
Mississippi, must 90 before a Circuit
Court of the State (nOt the Chdncery,)
and in term time be naturalized lie
need not go to the Circuit Court of the
county where he resides, but to any
Circuit Court in the State.
4. When he goes to the Court to be
naturalized, he must show to the Court:
1st-That he has declared his inten-
ton to become citizen at least two years
before Except in cases of minors and
discharged soldiers, as before explained).
This can be done by producing the GER
tifcate given at the time by the officer
before whom the declaration was made,
and lift has been lost, he can prove by his
own oath its loss, or destruction.
2d-He must show to the Court that
he has resided in the United States mt
least five wears, and in the State one
year, and that during that time he has
behaved as man of good moral charac-
ter, attached to the principles of the
Constitution of the United States and
we'll disposed to the good order and hap
piness of the same.
But in no case can the residence re-
quired be proven by the oath of the APP
plicant.
3d-The children of aliens who have
been duly naturalized are citizens, by the
act of naturalizing the father and if an
alien has declared his intention TO become
a citizen, and has died before naturalza-
ton, his widow and children may become
citizens by taking the naturalizing oath.
The oath required for naturalization is
as follows:
- solemnIv swear that will support
the Constitution of the United States,
and that / absolutely and entirely re-
nounce and abjure all allegiance to every
foreign prince, potentate, state or sover-
eighty, and particularly to -, prince
or King, or Empress of -, naming
the country of which the applicant is
native), of whom I w1rs before subject.
When all this is done, the proceedings
should be entered on the record, and the
Court should enter up judgment, de-
claring that the applicant is thereby,
having complied with the law, admitted
to the rights and privileges and immuni-
ties of citizen of the United States,
and adjudged and declared to be citizen
of the same. j. u. GEORGE.