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NATURALIZATION LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



The conditions under and the manner in which an alien may be admitted 

 to become a citizen of the United States, are prescribed by section 2, 165-174, 

 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. 



Declaration of Intention. The alien must declare upon oath, before a 

 circuit or district court of the United States, or a district or supreme court 

 of the Territories, or a court of retord of any of the States having common- 

 law jurisdiction, and a seal and clerk, two years at least prior to his admis- 

 sion, that it is, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United 

 States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince 

 or state, and particularly to the one of which he may be at the time a citizen 

 or a subject. 



Oath on Application for Admission. He must, at the time of his appli- 

 cation to be admitted, declare on oath, before some one of the courts above 

 specified, that he "will support the Constitution of the United States, and 

 that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity 

 to every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly, by 

 name, to the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of which he was before a 

 citizen or subject ; " which proceedings must be recorded by the clerk of the 

 court. 



Conditions for Citizenship. If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the 

 court, to which the alien has applied, that he has resided continuously within 

 the United States for at least five years, and within the State or Territory 

 where such court is at the time held, one year at least ; and that, during that 

 time, "he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the 

 principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the 

 good order and happiness of the same," he will be admitted to citizenship. 



Titles of Nobility. If the applicant has borne any hereditary title or 

 order of nobility, he must make an express renunciation of the same at the 

 time of his application. 



Soldiers. Any alien of the age of twenty-one years and upward, who has 

 been in the armies of the United States, and has been honorably discharged 

 therefrom, may become a citizen on his petition, without any previous declara- 

 tion of intention ; provided that he has resided in the United States at least 

 one year previous to his application, and is of good moral character. 



Minors. Any alien under the age of twenty-one years, who has resided 

 in the United States three years next preceding his arrival at that age, and 

 who has 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 



