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1 Naturalization Act of 1798 506 (1798)

handle is hein.immigration/natactniei0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FIFTH CONGRESS. SEss. 11. CH. 54. 1798. In case oftheir hereof any such ship or vessel shall be found within the jurisdictional being found limits of the United States, not being liable to seizure for any other within the U. States they shall cause, the company having charge thereof shall be required to depart be ordered to and carry away the same, avoiding all unnecessary delay; and if they depart; and on shall, notwithstanding, remain, it shall be the duty Of the collector of oii compliancethdirc, they shall a the district, wherein, or nearest to which, such ship or vessel shall be, to seized and de. seize and detain the same, at the expense of the United States: Provided, tased. that ships or vessels which shall be bona fide the property of, or hired ing to citizens or employed by citizens of the United States, shall be excepted from ofthe U. States this prohibition until the first day of December next, and no longer: excepted from And provided that in the case of vessels hereby prohibited, which shall uneil bth tiof be driven by distress ofweather, or the want of provisions into any port or December 1798. place of the United States, they may be suffered to remain under the Procegdings custody of the collector there, or nearest thereto, until suitable repairs or to be had Inreas case of vessels supplies can be obtained, and as soon as may be thereafter shall be entering in dis- required and suffered to depart: but no part of the lading of such vessel tress. shall be taken out or disposed -of, unless by the special permit of such collector, or to defray the unavoidable expense of such repairs or supplies. Limitation of SEc. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and the act be in force until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer. In the recess, SEC. 5. Provided, and be it further enacted, That if, before the next the President session of Congress, the government of France, and all persons acting may dissolve the by or under their authority, shall clearly disavow, and shall be found to prohibitions of yclay this act, on refrain from the aggressions, depredations and hostilities which have being well as. been, and are by them encouraged and maintained against the vessels certained of a and other property of the citizens of the United States, and against disavowal andStes agit cessation ofhos. their national rights and sovereignty, in violation of the faith of treaties, tilities, &c. on and the laws of nations, and shall thereby acknowledge the just claims the part of of the United States to be considered as in all respects neutral, and France, unconnected in the present European war, if the same shall be con- tinued, then and thereupon it sall be lawful for the President of the United States, being well ascertained of the premises, to remit and dis- continue the prohibitions and restraints hereby enacted and declared; and he shall be, and is hereby authorized to make proclamation thereof Act not to ex. accordingly: Provided, that nothing in this act contained, shall extend tend to vessels to any ship or vessel to which the President of the United States shall to which the President may grant a permission to enter or clear; which permission he is hereby grant special authorized to grant to vessels which shall be solely employed in any permissions. purpose of political or national intercourse, or to aid the departure of any French persons, with their goods and effects, who shall have been resident within the United States, when he may think it requisite. APPROVED, June 13, 1798. STATUTr I. June 1S. 1798. Ante, p. 414. [Repealed.] Act of April 14, 1802,ch.28, see. . No alien may become a citi- zen, unless he shall have de- clared his inten. tion to become such, five years before his ad. mlsvlon ' le shall de. clare and prove fourteen years CHAP. LIV.-In lct suppltnentary to and to amend the act, intifuled 6*an act ia establish an uniform rule of naturalization; and to repeal the act heretofore prssed on that subject. S cIoN 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no alien sit bh admitted to become a citized of the United States, or of any state. unless in the manner prescribed by the act, intituled An act to an uniform rule of naturalization; and to repeal the act here- tofore passed on that subject, he shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, five years, at least, before his admission, and shall, at the time of his application to be admitted, declare and prove, to the satisfaction of the court hailing jurisdiction in the case, that he has resided within the United States fourteen years, at least, and within the state or territory where, or for which such court is at the time held, five years, at least, besides conforming to the other 566