1822 - Edocs
1822 - Edocs
1822 - Edocs
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shall open a register, and cause to be inscribed the name,<br />
age, and occupation of every free male inhabitant of such<br />
town or county, who may be desirous to profit by the<br />
provisions of the sixth article of the treaty, so as afore-<br />
said in part recited, provided the person* or "inhabitant<br />
who may thus desire to have .his name inscribed, shall<br />
first satisfy the mayoivfcr su^'o^her persons as may be<br />
appointed to opep ..Register's*; that he was really an inhabitant<br />
of the cede3i.teY?itory on fehe^l7th da*y of July<br />
1821 : and provided also, tfifatr rfe will of his own free will<br />
and accord, abjure all 'foreign allegiance, and take the<br />
oath of allegiance prescribed by the laws of the United<br />
States<br />
Sec. 2. That the officeor register shall continue open<br />
for and during the $pace of t,w.elve months, when the<br />
.Turn e shall be closed, and a copiy thereof transmitted under<br />
the seal €>f > tke i s*aj^i $la5*op,»or other persons appointed<br />
to open registers to 4 the secretaries qf the said-territovies.<br />
Sec. 3. ThaY-from/^nfcl after the period that the said<br />
register shall be c o closed, no other free male inhabitant<br />
above the age of twenty ope, aftd-eniitled to make his election<br />
as aforesaid, *shalfJie, .wiUiki the ce'ded territories,<br />
entitled to any of ihe-rishts, privileges and immunities of<br />
a citizen of thVt^hff&o* Mates, but shall to ail intents and<br />
purposes be considered & foreigners*and subject to the<br />
laws of the United? Spates, in rclation^fb aliens.<br />
Sec. 4. It shalf be the' duty of heads of families within<br />
the said provisoes, being desirous to profit by this act, to<br />
furnish the.MayoK or suorTother^pcrsons as may. be appointed<br />
to open roisters, wjth the name and atre of every<br />
free male member of his family, and the said Mayor shall<br />
cause the same to be inscribed ofi the register, as before<br />
provided for.<br />
Sec. 5. In order to guard the more effectually against<br />
impositions, as well as to give to the inhabitants the security<br />
which citizensbip "frill afford them abroad. It is<br />
further ordained, That the Secretary or Secretaries of the<br />
ceded territories, grant to snc # h inhabitants as may be desirous<br />
of receiving* the same, , certificates of citiztnship,<br />
he or they beingfirst satisfied that the provisions of this<br />
ordinance shall have been complied with.<br />
Sec. 6. The evidence upon which the Secretary or Secretaries<br />
shall proceed to grant certificates of citizenship<br />
shall be a certificate of the clerk of the Mayor, or such other<br />
persons as may be appointed to open registers, that<br />
the applicant has complied with the requisitions of this<br />
ordinance, upon the receipt of which it shall be the duty<br />
of the Secretary or Secretaries, to grant to all and ever\<br />
such applicant or applicants; certificates of citizenship,<br />
for which the said clerk and Secretary shall be entitled to<br />
one dollar ea»h, and for every name entered en the regis*
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