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Statute I.May 24, 1828.[Obsolete.]
Sums appro-priated.
Forts.
For repairs,&c.
Sums appro-priated to bepaid from thetreasury.
Statute I.
May 24, 1828.
Banks in theDistrict of Co-lumbia in calcu-lating their dis-count to beguided, &c.
Statute I.
May 24, 1828.
Second sec-tion of the actof April 14,1802, ch. 28,and March 22,1816, ch. 32,repealed.
Any alien,being a freewhite person,who was re-siding withinthe limits, &c.,of the UnitedStates , betweenApril 14, 1802,and June 18,1812, to be-come a citizen.
Proviso.
Chap. CXIV. —An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the
United States for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-nine.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United.States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sumsbe, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit: For fortifications, toeach, specifically, as follows—
For fort Adams, fifteen thousand dollars. For fort Hamilton, twentythousand dollars. For fort Monroe, fifteen thousand dollars. For fortCalhoun, ten thousand dollars. For fort Macon, at Bogue Point, tenthousand dollars. For a fort at Oak Island, fifteen thousand dollars. Fora fort at Mobile Point, twenty thousand dollars. For fort Jackson, six-teen thousand dollars. For fortifications at Pensacola , twenty thousanddollars. For fortifications at Charleston , fifteen thousand dollars. Forfortifications at Savannah, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs and con-tingencies of fortifications, three thousand seven hundred and fiftydollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums herein appropri-ated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap-propriated : but that no part of the same shall be drawn from the trea-sury before the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Approved, May 24,1828.
Chap. CXF. —An Act in relation to the banks in the District of Columbia .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be, and ishereby, declared to be lawful for the several banks of the District ofColumbia , in calculating their discount or interest, to charge accordingto the standard and rates set forth in “ Rowlett’s Tables,” and, in com-puting the time which a note may have to run, to reckon the daysinclusively.
Approved, May 24, 1828.
Chap. CXV1.— An Act to amend the acts concerning naturalization, (d)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the second section ofthe act, entitled “ An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization,and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject,” which waspassed on the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred andtwo, and the first section of the act, entitled “ An act relative to evidencein cases of naturalization,” passed on the twenty-second day of March,one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and the same are hereby,repealed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any alien, being a free whiteperson, who was residing within the limits, and under the jurisdictionof the United States , between the fourteenth day of April, one thousandeight hundred and two, and the eighteenth day of June, one thousandeight hundred and twelve, and who has continued to reside within thesame, may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States , withouthaving made any previous declaration of his intention to become a citi-zen : Provided, That whenever any person, without a certificate of such
(a) See notes of the acts relating to naturalization, vol. i. 103.