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May 24, 1828.
[Obsolete.]

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.

Sums appropriated.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit: For fortifications, to each, specifically, as follows—

Forts.For fort Adams, fifteen thousand dollars. For fort Hamilton, twenty thousand dollars. For fort Monroe, fifteen thousand dollars. For fort Calhoun, ten thousand dollars. For fort Macon, at Bogue Point, ten thousand dollars. For a fort at Oak Island, fifteen thousand dollars. For a fort at Mobile Point, twenty thousand dollars. For fort Jackson, sixteen thousand dollars. For fortifications at Pensacola, twenty thousand dollars. For fortifications at Charleston, fifteen thousand dollars. For fortifications at Savannah, fifteen thousand dollars.For repairs, &c. For repairs and contingencies of fortifications, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums herein appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: but that no part of the same shall be drawn from the treasury before the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

Approved, May 24, 1828.

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May 24, 1828.

Chap. CXV.An Act in relation to the banks in the District of Columbia.

Banks in the District of Columbia in calculating their discount to be guided, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be, and is hereby, declared to be lawful for the several banks of the District of Columbia, in calculating their discount or interest, to charge according to the standard and rates set forth in “Rowlett’s Tables,” and in computing the time which a note may have to run, to reckon the days inclusively.

Approved, May 24, 1828.

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May 24, 1828.

Chap. CXVI.An Act to amend the acts concerning naturalization.[1]

Second section of the act of April 14, 1802, ch. 28, and March 22, 1816, ch. 32, repealed.
Any alien, being a free white person, who was residing within the limits, &c., of the United States, between April 14, 1802, and June 18, 1812, to become a citizen.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second section of the act, entitled “An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject,” which was passed on the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, and the first section of the act, entitled “An act relative to evidence in 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 white person, who was residing within the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States, between the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, and the eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and who has continued to reside within the same, may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, without having made any previous declaration of his intention to become a citizen:Proviso. Provided, That whenever any person, without a certificate of such

  1. See notes of the acts relating to naturalization, vol. i. 103.