APPENDIX.

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES RELATING TO CITIZENSHIP

AND NATURALIZATION, AND THE NATURALIZA

TION CONVENTIONS TO WHICH THE

UNITED STATES IS A PARTY.

APPENDIX.

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES RELATING TO CITIZENSHIP AND NATURALIZATION.

CITIZENSHIP.

[The references are to sections of the Revised Statutes, unless otherwise indicated.]

SEC.

1992. Who are citizens.

1993. Citizenship of children of citizens born abroad.

1994. Citizenship of married women.

1995. Of persons born in Oregon.

1996. Rights as citizens forfeited for desertion, etc.

1997. Certain soldiers and sailors not to incur the forfeitures of the last

section.

1998. Avoiding the draft.

1999. Right of expatriation declared.

2000. Protection to naturalized citizens in foreign states.

2001. Release of citizens imprisoned by foreign governments to be demanded.

Sec. 1992 [U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 1268]. All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States.

Sec. 1993 [U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 1268]. All children heretofore born or hereafter born out of the limits, and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at

the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States.

Sec. 1994 [U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 1268]. Any woman. who is now or may hereafter be married to a citizen of the United States, and who might herself be lawfully naturalized, shall be deemed a citizen.

Sec. 1995 [U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 1268]. All persons born in the district of country formerly known as the territory of Oregon, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States on the 18th May, 1872, are citizens in the same manner as if born elsewhere in the United States.

Sec. 1996 [U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 1269]. All persons who deserted the military or naval service of the United States, and did not return thereto or report themselves to a provostmarshal within sixty days after the issuance of the proclamation by the President, dated the 11th day of March, 1865, are deemed to have voluntarily relinquished and forfeited their rights of citi zenship, as well as their right to become citizens; and such deserters shall be forever incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under the United States, or of exercising any rights of citizens thereof.

Sec. 1997 [U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 1269]. No soldier or sailor, however, who faithfully served according to his enlistment until the 19th day of April, 1865, and who, without proper authority or leave first obtained, quit his command or refused to serve after that date, shall be held to be a deserter from the Army or Navy; but this section shall be construed solely as a removal of any disability such soldier or sailor may have incurred, under the preceding section, by the loss of citizenship and of the right to hold office, in consequence of his desertion.