Chapter CLXXXVI. *in further addition to “An act to establish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.”*(*b*)(*b*)See notes of the acts relating to naturalization, vol. 1. 103
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Chap. CLXXXVI.— An Act *in further addition to “An act to establish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.”*(*b*)(*b*)See notes of the acts relating to naturalization, vol. 1. 103.May 26, 1824. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatAct of March 26, 1790, ch. 3.Conditions on which an alien, being a free white person and a minor, may become a citizen of the United States. any alien, being a free white person and a minor, under the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided in the United States three years next preceding his arriving at the age of twenty-one years, and who shall have continued to reside therein to the time he may make application to be admitted a citizen thereof, may, after he arrives at the age of twenty-one years, and after he shall have resided five years within the United States, including the three years of his minority, be admitted a citizen of the United States, without having made the declaration required in the first condition of the first section of the act to which this is in addition, three years previous to his admission: *Provided,*Proviso.
Such alien shall make the declaration required therein at the time of his or her admission; and shall further declare, on oath, and prove to the satisfaction of the court, that, for three years next preceding, it has been the bona fide intention of such alien to become a citizen of the United States: and shall, in all other respects, comply with the laws in regard to naturalization. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatNo certificate of citizenship or naturalization heretofore obtained from any court to be deemed invalid. 1816, ch. 32. no certificates of citizenship, or naturalization, heretofore obtained from any court of record within the United States, shall be deemed invalid, in consequence of an omission to comply with die requisition of the first section of the act, entitled “An act relative to evidence in cases of naturalization,” passed the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatDeclaration required by the first section of the former act to be valid on certain conditions. the declaration required by the first condition specified in the first section of the act, to which this is in addition, shall, if the same has been bona fide made before the clerks of either of the courts in the said condition named, be as valid as if it had been made before the said courts, respectively. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* ThatA declaration of intention made two years before his admission shall be sufficient. a declaration by any alien, being a free white person, of his intended application to be admitted a citizen of the United States, made in the manner and form prescribed in the first condition specified in the first section of the act to which this is in addition, two years before his admission, shall be a sufficient compliance with said condition; any thing in the said act, or in any subsequent act, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, May 26, 1824. Chapter CLXXXVII: explanatory of an act, entitled “An act for the relief of the officers, volunteers, and other persons, engaged in the late campaign against the Seminole Indians, passed the fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.” 4 Stat. 70 1824-05-26 Chapter CLXXXVII United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-11-26 18 1 public 70 EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 187, 188. 1824.
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- Chapter CLXXXVIIexplanatory of an act, entitled “An act for the relief of the officers, volunteers, and other persons, engaged in the late campaign against the Seminole Indians, passed the fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.”May 26, 1824. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representativ
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*in further addition to “An act to establish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.”*(*b*)(*b*)See notes of the acts relating to naturalization, vol. 1. 103
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