of the reporter

Resolved, by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Iowa, That the Hon. Will- Compensation iam W. Chapman, our Delegate in Congress, be, for the services and he is hereby instructed, to use his exertions to of the decisions procure the organic law of this Territory to be so of the supreme amended, as to allow a reporter of the supreme court. court for said Territory a salary of four hundred dollars, annually, and that a copy of this resolution. and preamble be forwarded immediately to the President of the United States, and to our Delegate in Congress, by the Secretary of the Territory. APPROVED, January 18, 1839.

No. 12.

ment.

Resolved, by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Iowa, That the Hon. William Land for the W. Chapman, our Delegate in Congress, be in- seat of governstructed to ask a donation, of at least four sections of land, on which to locate the seat of government of the Territory of Iowa, to be selected by the commissioners appointed by the Legislative Assembly of Iowa, to locate the seat of Government of said Territory.

APPROVED, January 21, 1839.

APPENDIX.

NATURALIZATION OF ALIENS.

AN ACT to amend the acts concerning Naturalization.

1802, and 22d

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 Second section "An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, of the act of and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that sub- 14th April, ject," which was passed on the fourteenth day of of March, 1816, April, one thousand eight hundred and two, and the repealed. 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passed on the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

who was resi

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any alien, Any alien bebeing a free white person, who was residing within ing a free the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United white person, States, between the fourteenth day of April, one ding within the thousand eight hundred and two, and the eighteenth limits of the day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, United States and who has continued to reside within the same,

between the

14th April,

Proviso, when

ever any person without a

tion, &c.

may be admitted to become a citizen of the United 1802, and 18th States, without having made any previous declaration June, 1812 to of his intention to become a citizen: Provided, That become a citiwhenever any person, without a certificate of such zen. declaration of intention, shall make application to be admitted a citizen of the United States, it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the court, that the ap- certificate of plicant was residing within the limits and under the such declarajurisdiction of the United States, before the eight- tion of inteneenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and has continued to reside within the same, or he shall not be so admitted: and the residence of the applicant within the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States, for at least five years immediately preceding the time of such application, shall be proved by the oath or affirmation of citizens of the United States; which citizens shall be named in the record as witnesses: and such continued residence within the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States, when satisfactorily

proved, and the place or places where the applicant has resided 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 court admitting the applicant; otherwise the same shall not entitle him to be considered and deemed a citizen of the United States.

APPROVED, May 24, 1828.

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, AND PERPETUAL UNION,

Between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. Connecticut, NewYork, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

ARTICLE I.

The style of this confederacy shall be, "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."

ARTICLE II.

Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.

ARTICLE III.

The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.

ARTICLE IV.

The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted), shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the sev

eral States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions, as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that such restriction shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any State to any other State, of which the owner is an inhabitant: Provided also, That no imposition, duties or restriction, shall be laid by any State on the property of the United States, or either of them.

If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the Governor, or Executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the State, having jurisdiction of his offence."

Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other State.

ARTICLE V.

For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed, in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State, to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the year.

No State shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emoluments of any kind.

Each State shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the States, and while they act as members of the committee of the States.

In determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote.

Freedom of speech, and debate in Congress, shall not be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Congress; and the members of Congress shall be protected in their persons from arrests and imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendance on Congress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace.