Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 423.
(No Report.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
April 26, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union.
Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
To repeal in part the twelfth section of the act, entitled “An
act for the regulation of seamen on board the public and
private vessels of the United States.”

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10 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the twelfth section of the act approved
March three, eighteen hundred and thirteen, entitled “An
act for the regulation of seamen on board the public and
private vessels of this United States,” (which said twelfth
section is in the following words, viz: That no person
who shall arrive in the United States, from and after the
time when this act shall take effect, shall be admitted
to become a citizen of the United States, who shall not,

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18 for the continued term of five years next preceding his
admission as aforesaid, have resided within the United
States, without being at any time during the said five
years out of the territory of the United States,”) be, and
the same hereby is, modified, and in part repealed, by
striking out the words, “without being, at any time during
the said five years, out of the territory of the United
States.”

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the twelfth section of the act approved March three, eighteen hundred and thirteen, entitled “An act for the regulation of seamen on board the public and private vessels of this United States,” (which said twelfth section is in the following words, viz: That no person who shall arrive in the United States, from and after the time when this act shall take effect, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, who shall not,
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11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18	for the continued term of five years next preceding his admission as aforesaid, have resided within the United States, without being at any time during the said five years out of the territory of the United States,”) be, and the same hereby is, modified, and in part repealed, by striking out the words, “without being, at any time during the said five years, out of the territory of the United States.”