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In case of their being found within the U. States they shall be ordered to depart; and on non compliance they shall be seized and detained.
Vessels belonging to the citizens of the U. States excepted from the prohibition until the 1st of December 1798.
Proceedings to be had in case of vessels entering in distress.
hereof any such ship or vessel shall be found within the jurisdictional limits of the United States, not being liable to seizure for any other cause, the company having charge thereof shall be required to depart and carry away the same, avoiding all unnecessary delay; and if they shall, notwithstanding, remain, it shall be the duty of the collector of the district, wherein, or nearest to which, such ship or vessel shall be, to seize and detain the same, at the expense of the United States: Provided, that ships or vessels which shall be bona fide the property of, or hired or employed by the citizens of the United States, shall be excepted from this prohibition until the first day of December next, and no longer: And provided that in the case of vessels hereby prohibited, which shall be driven by distress of weather, or the want of provisions into any port or place of the United States, they may be suffered to remain under the custody of the collector there, or nearest thereto, until suitable repairs or supplies can be obtained, and as soon as may be thereafter shall be required and suffered to depart: but no part of the lading of such vessel shall be taken out or disposed of, unless by the special permit of such collector, or to defray the unavoidable expense of such repairs and supplies.

Sec. 4. Limitation of the act. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.

Sec. 5. In the recess, the President may dissolve the prohibitions of this act, on being well ascertained of a disavowal and cessation of hostilities, &c. on the part of France. Provided, and be it further enacted, That if, before the next session of Congress, the government of France, and all persons acting by or under their authority, shall clearly disavow, and shall be found to refrain from the aggressions, depredations and hostilities which have been, and are by them encouraged and maintained against the vessels and other property of the citizens of the United States, and against their national rights and sovereignty, in violation of the faith of treaties, and the laws of nations, and shall thereby acknowledge the just claims of the United States to be considered as in all respects neutral, and unconnected in the present European war, if the same shall be continued, then and thereupon it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, being well ascertained of the premises, to remit and discontinue the prohibitions and restraints hereby enacted and declared; and he shall be, and is hereby authorized to make proclamation thereof accordingly: Act not to extend to vessels to which the President may grant special permissions.Provided, that nothing in this act contained, shall extend to any ship or vessel to which the President of the United States shall grant a permission to enter or clear; which permission he is hereby authorized to grant to vessels which shall be solely employed in any 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.

Statute Ⅱ.



June 18, 1798.

Chap. ⅬⅣ.An Act supplementary to and to amend the act, intituled “An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization; and to repeal the act heretofore passed on that subject.”

Section 1.Ante, p. 414.
[Repealed.]
Act of April 14, 1802, ch. 28, sec. 5.
No alien may become a citizen, unless he shall have declared his intention to become such, five years before his admission.
He shall declare and prove fourteen years residence within the United States, and five years in the state, &c. where he applies; besides otherwise conforming to the former act.
Provision in favor of residents before 29th Jan. 1795, and of persons having made the declaration of their intention to become citizens.
Alien enemies cannot become citizens.
Clerks of courts to send to the Secretary of State abstracts of the declarations of aliens intending to become citizens.
Fees of the clerks therefor.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no alien shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, or of any state, unless in the manner prescribed by the act, intituled “An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization; and to repeal the act heretofore 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 having 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