no sooner. When the alien is about to make it, he must apply to the clerk of the court with whom he filed his report, (No. 1,) who will furnish him with a certificate thereof, for a fee of fifty cents; and also to the clerk of the court wherein his declaration (No. 2,) has been made and recorded, from whom he may likewise procure a certificate of such declaration having been made. The alien must then apply to a supreme, superior, district, or circuit court of some one of the states, or of the territorial districts of the United States; or a circuit or district court of the United States; and, with the two certificates mentioned, present the following application:

No. 3. Form of the Application.

To the honourable the district court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, now sitting in the city of Philadelphia.

The application of James Alvin respectfully sheweth:

The said applicant has made report, and caused registry to be made of himself, with a view to his naturalization, according to the law of the United States in that case enacted; a certificate of which report and registry, is here with exhibited; and has, moreover, made the declaration of his bona fide intention to become a citizen of the United States, as required by law, of which a certificate is likewise herewith presented-Wherefore the said applicant respectfully prays the honourable the court that he may, in the usual form, be admitted a citizen of the United States.

JAMES ALVIN.

Upon this application the court must be satisfied1st. That the alien has resided within the United States five years at least.

2d. That he has resided within the state or ter

ritory, where the court is at the time held, one year at least.

3. That, during the five years, the alien 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.

The oath of the applicant will in no case, be allowed to prove his residence.

Upon being satisfied on these points, the court will admit the alien to citizenship, upon his making the following declaration:

No. 4. Form of the final declaration.

I, JAMES ALVIN, do hereby declare, that I will support the constitution of the United States, and that I do absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever; and, particularly, I do hereby absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to the king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

JAMES ALVIN.

Sworn to, or affirmed, in open court.

If the alien, applying for admission, has borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the orders of nobility, he must add to the next preceding declaration as follows: And, furthermore, I do hereby expressly renounce all claim to any hereditary title, or order of nobility, and especially to the title of Viscount, Earl, or Marquis, (as the case may be,) which I have heretofore borne.

The clerk of the court will record all these proceedings, and will furnish, on application, a certificate of citizenship, which will be evidence that the alien has been duly naturalized.

General Observations.

Every court of record, in any individual state, having common law jurisdiction, and a seal, and clerk or prothonotary, is considered as a district court, within the meaning of the act concerning naturalization.

The provisions of the act respecting naturalization have reference to free white aliens only.

Aliens residing within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States, between the 18th day of June, 1798, and the 14th day of April, 1802, and who have continued so to reside, may be admitted citizens without a compliance with that provision of the law which requires a declaration of bona fide intention.

Any alien who has made report on his arrival in the United States, (as in No. 1,) and who has made a declaration (as in No. 2,) of bona fide intention, dying before he is actually naturalized, his widow and children are considered as citizens, and will be entitled to all rights and privileges as such upon taking the oath prescribed by law, (as in No. 4.)

The children of persons duly naturalized under any of the laws of the United States; or who previously to the passing of any law on that subject by the government of the United States, [i. e. previously to the 26th of March, 1790,] may have become citizens of any one of the states, under the laws thereof, being under the age of 21 at the time of their parent's being naturalized, are, if dwelling in the United States, considered citizens.

M'CARTY AND DAVIS, PRINTERS.