commissioner's court, in each organized county, and also a seal for the probate courts in each county, in this Territory, and the said Wm. Wagner shall receive for the execution of said seals the sum of dollars for each seal, to be paid out of any moneys in the Territorial Treasury not otherwise appropriated, when said seals shall be delivered, Their delivery and approved, by the Secretary of the Territory. APPROVED, January 4, 1839. and approval. No. 6. Resolved, by the Council and House of Representa- Laws of 1838tives of the Territory of Iowa, That Messrs. Russell '39, number of and Reeves, publishers of the laws passed at this ses- copies, &c. sion, be required to furnish, for the use of this Territory, 2,000 copies, and that they prefix, to each copy, the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, the Organic Law of the Territory of Iowa, and the Ordinance of 1787, respecting the North-West Territory. APPROVED, January 4, 1839. No. 7. Resolved, by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Iowa, That the judges of the Judges of the supreme court be requested to furnish this Legislative supreme court, Assembly, during its present session, with such bills, and a code of as will, in their opinion, form a proper code of jurisprudence for Iowa, and regulate the practice of the courts thereof. APPROVED, January 4, 1839. laws. No. 8. Resolved, by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Iowa, That the thanks of the Thanks to Dr. Assembly of Iowa be presented, through the Secre- Fairchild. tary of said Territory, to Dr. O. Fairchild, of Cincin nati, Ohio, for his valuable presents of maps to the Library of said Territory. APPROVED, January 4, 1839. allowance to committee, of $100 each. No. 9. Resolved, by the Council and House of RepresentaMiners' Bank, tives of the Territory of Iowa, That the committee, appointed under a joint resolution of both Houses, to repair to the Miners' Bank of Du Buque, and investigate the affairs and condition of the same, be allowed the sum of one hundred dollars, each. APPROVED, January 12, 1839. No. 10. Whereas, The country purchased of the Sac and Fox Indians, in the month of October, 1837, is rapidly settling, with a respectable and meritorious class of citizens, who are opening farms, and making improvements, of various kinds, which must necessarily be subject to be divided, and otherwise injuriously affected, by the lines of the public surveys, and thereby occasioning much loss, and ground of difficulties, of a serious character, to the pioneers of a new country, therefore, Be it resolved, by the Council and House of RepreAppropriation sentatives of the Territory of Iowa, That our Delegate for further sur- in Congress be requested to solicit, and use his best exertions to obtain, an appropriation for the survey of all the unsurveyed lands in the Territory of Iowa, to which the Indian title has been extinguished. veys of public lands, in this Territory. And be it further resolved, That the Governor of this Territory be requested to forward three copies of these resolutions, one to our Delegate in Congress, one to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and one to the President of the United States. APPROVED, January 12, 1839. No. 11. Whereas, The supreme court of the Territory of Iowa, have appointed Charles Weston reporter of the decisions of the said court, and whereas the said reports are absolutely necessary for the use of the Legislative Assembly of this Territory, and the people at large, and whereas the organic law has made no provision for the salary of said reporter, or compensation for his important services-Therefore, 70 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. 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 ment. 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 Iding 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, whenever 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 |