Chapter XXXVI. *supplementary to the acts heretofore passed on the subject of an uniform rule of naturalization.*(*a*)(*a*) Notes of the naturalization acts, vol. i. 103
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Chap. XXXVI.— An Act *supplementary to the acts heretofore passed on the subject of an uniform rule of naturalization.*(*a*)(*a*) Notes of the naturalization acts, vol. i. 103. July 30, 1813. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That persons resident withinPersons authorized to become citizens who were resident in the United States on the 18th June, 1812, and who had made a declaration of their intention to become citizens of the United States.Proviso. the United States, or the territories thereof, on the eighteenth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, who had before that day made a declaration according to law, of their intentions to become citizens of the United States, or who by the existing laws of the United States, were on that day entitled to become citizens, without making such declaration, may be admitted to become citizens thereof, notwithstanding they shall be alien enemies at the times and in the manner prescribed by the laws heretofore passed on that subject: *Provided,* That nothing herein contained shall be taken or construed to interfere with or prevent the apprehension and removal, agreeably to law, of any alien enemy at any time previous to the actual naturalization of such alien.
Approved, July 30, 1813.