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.”, June 26, 1848

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.”

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 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, he 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 an addition, three years previous to his admission: Provided, 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 further enacted, That 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 the 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, That the declaration required by the first condition specified in the first section of the act to which this is an addition, shall, if the same has been bona fide made before the clerk 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, That 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, anything in the said act, or in any subsequent act, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved May 26, 1824

AN ACT to amend the act entitled “An act for the regulation of seamen on hoard the public and private vessels of the United States,” passed the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirteen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Bepresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the last clause of the twelfth section of the act hereby amended, 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,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed.