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declaration of intention, shall make application to be admitted a citizenof the United States , it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the court,that the applicant was residing within the limits, and under the jurisdictionof the United States , before the eighteenth day of June, one thousandeight hundred and twelve, and has continued to reside within the same,or he shall not be so admitted : and the residence of the applicant withinthe limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States , for at least fiveyears immediately preceding the time of such application, shall beprovedby the oath or affirmation of citizens of the United States : which citizensshall be named in the record as witnesses; and, such continued residencewithin the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States , whensatisfactorily proved, and the place or places where the applicant hasresided for at least five years, as aforesaid, shall be stated and set forth,together with the names of such citizens, in the record of the courtadmitting the applicant; otherwise the same shall not entitle him to beconsidered and deemed a citizen of the United States .

Approved, May 24, 1838.

Chap. CXVII. —Jin Ad making appropriations for the support of the navy 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 UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That, for defraying the expensesof the navy for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundredand twenty-nine, the following sums be, and the same are hereby,respectively, appropriated, to wit:

For pay and subsistence of officers, and pay of seamen employed inthe navy afloat, two hundred and ninety-four thousand and seventy-eightdollars.

For pay, subsistence, and allowances of officers, and pay of seamen,at navy yards, shore stations, hospitals, and in ordinary, forty-six thou-sand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars.

For pay of superintendents, naval constructor, and all the civil establish-ment at the yards and stations, fourteen thousand seven hundred andseventy-five dollars.

For provisions, one hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred andfifty dollars.

For repairs of vessels, one hundred and eighteen thousand seven hun-dred and fifty dollars.

For medicines, surgical instruments, and hospital stores, six thousandseven hundred and fifty dollars.

For ordnance and ordnance stores, twelve thousand five hundreddollars.

For repairing and improvements of navy yards, twenty-six thousandtwo hundred and fifty dollars.

For arrearages prior to one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine,three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, embracing the items enumerated for that object in the act ofsecond of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, sixtythousand dollars.

For contingent expenses, not enumerated, for one thousand eight hun-dred and twenty-nine, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, thirty thousand fivehundred and ninety-four dollars.

For clothing for the same, seven thousand one hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-five cents.

For fuel for the same, three thousand and forty-nine dollars.

Statute I.

May 24, 1828.

[Obsolete.]

For defrayingthe expenses ofthe navy for 1stquarter of 1829.

Fay and sub-sistence of offi-cers, &c.

Pay, &c. ofofficers andseamen.

Pay of super-intendents, &c.

Provisions.

Repairs ofvessels.

Medicines.

Ordnance.

. Repairing,&c. ofnavyyards, &c.

Arrearagesprior to 1829.

Contingentexpenses for1829, &c.

Act of March2, 1827, ch. 22.

Contingentexpenses notenumerated.

Pay, &c. ofmarine corps.

Clothing forsame.

Fuel.