Anne, c. 5.

Children of natural born Sub

No. 10.

7 Ann, c. 5.-An Act for naturalizing Foreign Protestants.

WWEFA and Strength of a Nation; and whereas many

THEREAS the Increase of People is a Means of advancing the

Strangers of the Protestant or Reformed Religion out of a due • Consideration of the happy Constitution of the Government of this Realm, would be induced to transport themselves and their Estates into this Kingdom, if they might be made Partakers of the Advantages and Privileges which the natural-born Subjects thereof do enjoy; Be it enacted, &c.

"All Persons taking the Oaths, and making and subscribing the "Declaration appointed by 6 Anuæ, c. 23, shall be deemed natural"born Subjects. No Person to have the Benefit of this Act, unless "he have received the Sacrament, &c."

III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That jects born abroad, the Children of all natural-born Subjects born out of the Ligeance of to be deemed na her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, shall be deemed, adjudged, jects; explained and taken to be natural-born Subjects of this Kingdom, to all Intents, by 4 G. II. c. 21. Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever.

tural-born Sub

tend to Ireland.

This Act to ex IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Persons born out of the Ligeance of her Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, who shall qualify themselves in the Courts of Chancery, Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer, within the Kingdom of Ireland, or at some General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, to be held for the County where he or they do or shall inhabit, reside, or settle within the said Kingdom, in like Manner as Persons are by this Act required to do within the Kingdom of Great Britain, all and every such Persons shall be deemed, adjudged, and taken to be her Majesty's natural-born Subjects of the said Kingdom of Ireland, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes, as if they, and every of them, had been, or were born within the said Kingdom of Ireland.

7 Anuæ, c. 5.

[Repealed by 10 Anna, c. 5. Except what relates to the Children of her Majesty's natural-born Subjects, born out of her Majesty's Allegiance. Vide 1 Geo. I. Stat. 2 c. 29.]

No. 11.

10 Anne, c. 5.-An Act to repeal the Act of the seventh Year of her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for naturalizing Foreign Protestants (except what relates to the Children of her Majesty's natural-born Subjects born out of her Majesty's Allegiance.)

WHEREAS ant of her Majesty's Reign, intitled, An Act for

THEREAS an Act of Parliament was made and passed in the

naturalizing Foreign Protestants: And whereas divers Mischiefs ⚫ and Inconveniencies have been found by Experience to follow from the same, to the Discouragement of the natural-born Subjects of this Kingdom, and to the Detriment of the Trade and Wealth thereof; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the before-mentioned Act, and all the Matters and Things therein contained (except so much of the said Act by which the Children of all natural-born Subjects born out of the Allegiance of her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, are

to be deemed, adjudged, and taken to be natural-born Subjects of this Kingdom) shall be, and is hereby repealed, annulled, and made void, to all intents and Purposes whatsoever; provided nevertheless, That such Repeal shall not in any Sort prejudice or impeach the Naturalization of any Persons who have been or shall be naturalized at any Time before the fourth Day of February, which shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eleven, pursuant to the Directions of the before-mentioned Act.

No. 12.

| Geo. I. Stat. 2.-An Act to explain the Act made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled, An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject.

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in the twelfth Year

No. 11.

7 Anne, c. 5.

c. 2.

ralized before his

of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King William the 12 & 13 w. III. 'Third, intituled, An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, it is amongst other Things enacted, That from and after the Time that the further Limitation of the Crown by that Act should take Effect, no Person born out of the Kingdom of England, Scotland, or beland, or the Dominions thereunto belonging, although he be naturalized or made a Denizen, except such as are born of English Parents, should be capable to be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, or to enjoy any Office or Place of No Person natu Trust, either Civil or Military, or to have any Grant of Lands, Majesty's AccesTenements, or Hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any sion pespacita others in Trust for him: And whereas some Doubts have arisen ted to be a Privy Counsellor, or a 'concerning the Construction of the said Law;' Be it declared and Member of Parenacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the liament, Advice and Consent of the Lord's Spiritual and Temporal and have any Office Commons, in Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the of Lauds, &c. same, That it was not the Intent and Meaning of the said Act, that the said Clause, or any Thing therein contained, should extend nor shall the said Clause be construed, adjudged, or taken to extend to disable or incapacitate any Person, who at or before his Majesty's Accession to the Crown was naturalized, to be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, or to take or enjoy any Office or Place of Trust, either Civil or Military, or to take or have any Grant of Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments from the Crown, to himself, or any other in Trust for him.

от to

of Trust, Grant

hereafter be natu

Clause inserted.

II. And for the better preserving the said recited Clause in the said Act of the twelfth Year of the late King William the Third, No Person shall entire and inviolable;' Be it further enacted by the Authority afore- ralized, unless in aid, that no Person shall hereafter be naturalized, unless in the Bill the Bill there be exhibited for that Purpose there be a Clause or particular Words such a disabling inserted to declare, that such Person shall not thereby be enabled to Nor shall any be of the Privy-Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, Bill be received or to take any Office or Place of Trust, either Civil or Military, or to in either House of have any Grant of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments from the out such Clause, Crown, to himself, or any other Person in trust for him; and that See 5 Bur. $787. Bill of Naturalization shall hereafter be received in either House of Parliament, unless such Clause or Words be first inserted or contained therein.

I'arliament with

7 Anne, c. 5.

10 Anne, c. 5.

No. 13.

4 Geo. II. c. 21.-An Act to explain an Act made in the seventh Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, For naturalizing Foreign Protestants, which relates to the Children of the natural-born Subjects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain.

WH

HEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in the seventh Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen ANNE, intituled, An Act for naturalizing of Foreign Protestants, it is, amongst other Things, enacted, That the Children of all natural-born Sub'jects, born out of the Ligeance of her said late Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, should be deemed, adjudged and taken to be natural-boin Subjects of this Kingdom to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever: And whereas in the tenth Year of her said late Majesty's Reign another Act was made and passed to repeal the said Act (except what related to the Children of her Majesty's 'natural-born Subjects, born out of her Majesty's Allegiance): And whereas some Doubts have arisen upon the Construction of the said recited Clause in the said Act of the seventh Year of her late 'Majesty's Reign:' Now for the explaining the said recited Clause in tutal born Sub- the said Act, relating to Children of natural-born Subjects, and to jects born out of prevent any Disputes touching the true Intent and Meaning thereof, the Crown. de- May it please your most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice clared to be na and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons,

Children of na

the Allegiance of

tural born.

7 Anne, c. 5. § 3.

Children of Pa

Treason,

in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all Children born out of the Ligeance of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, or which shall hereafter be born out of such Ligeance, whose Fathers were or shall be natural-born Subjects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, at the Time of the Birth of such Children respectively, shall and may, by virtue of the said recited Clause in the said Act of the seventh Year of the Reign of her said late Majesty, and of this present Act, be adjudged and taken to be, and all such Children are hereby declared to be natural-born Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever.

II. Provided always, and be it further enacted and declared by rents attainted of the Authority aforesaid, That nothing in the said recited Act of the seventh Year of her said late Majesty's Reign, or in this present Act contained, did, doth, or shall extend, or ought to be construed, adjuged, or taken to extend, to make any Children born or to be born out of the Ligeance of the Crown of England, or of the Crown of Great Britain, whose Fathers at the Time of the Birth of such Children respectively were or shall be attainted of High Treason, by Judgment, Outlawry, or otherwise, either in this Kingdom or in Ireland, or whose Fathers at the Time of the Birth of such Children respectively, by any Law or Laws made in this Kingdom or in Ireland, were or shall be liable to the Penalties of High Treason or Felony, in case of their returning into this Kingdom or into Ireland without the Licence of his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, or of any of his Majesty's Royal Predecessors, or whose Fathers at the or in actual Ser-Time of the Birth of such Children respectively were or shall be in vice of foreign the actual Service of any foreign Prince or State then in Enmity with Princes in En- the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, but that all such Crown, excepted. Children are, were and shall be and remain in the same State, Plight,

mity with the

No. 13.

and Condition to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever, as they would have been in, if the said Act of the seventh 40eo. II. c. 21. Year of her said late Majesty's Reign, or this present Act, had never been made; any Thing herein, or in the said Act of the seventh Year of her said late Majesty's Reign contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

III. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Child, whose Father at the Time of the Birth of such Child was attainted of High Treason as aforesaid, or was Fable to the Penalties of High Treason or Felony, in case of returning into this Kingdom or Ireland without Licence as aforesaid, or was in the actual Service of any foreign Prince or State then in Enmity with the Crown of England, or of Great Britain (other than and excepting always out of this Proviso all Children of such Persons who went out of Ireland in pursuance of the Articles of Limerick) hath come into Great Britain or Ireland, or any other of the Dominions belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, and hath continued to reside within Great Britain or Ireland, or other the Dominions aforesaid, for the Space of two Years, at any Time between the sixteenth Day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eight, and the twenty-fifth Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one, and during such Residence hath professed the Protestant Religion; or if any Child whose Father at the Time of his or her Birth was within any of the Descriptions before-mentioned, hath come into Great Britain or Ireland, or any other of the Dominions belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, and professed the Protestant Religion, and died within Great Britain or Ireland, or any other of the Dominions aforesaid, at any Time between the said sixteenth Day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eight, and the said twenty-fifth Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one; or if any Child, whose Father at the Time of his or her Birth was within any of the Descriptions before-mentioned, hath been and continued in the actual Possession or Receipt of the Rents and Profits of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments in Great Britain or Ireland, for the Space of one whole Year, at any Time between the said sixteenth Day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eight, and the said twenty-fifth Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one, or hath bona fide, and for good and valuable Consideration, sold, conveyed or settled any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments in Great Britain or Ireland, and any Person claiming Title thereto, under such Sale, Conveyance or Settlement, hath been and continued in the actual Possession or Receipt of the Rents and Profits thereof for the Space of six Months, between the said sixteenth Day of November, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eight, and the said twentyfifth Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one, every such Child shall be deemed, adjudged and taken to be and to have been a natural-born Subject of the Crown of England, or of the Crown of Great Britain, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever; any Thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

Proviso.

13 Geo. II. c. 7.

No. 14.

13 Geo. II. c. 7.-An Act for naturalizing Foreign Protestants, and others therein mentioned, as are settled, or shall settle, in any of his Majesty's Colonies in America.

WH

THEREAS the Increase of People is a Means of advancing the Wealth and Strength of any Nation or Country: And whereas many Foreigners and Strangers, from the Lenity of our Government, the Purity of our Religion, the Benefit of our Laws, the Advantages of our Trade, and the Security of our Property, might be induced 'to come and settle in some of his Majesty's Colonies in America, if they were made Partakers of the Advantages and Privileges which the natural-born Subjects of this Realm do enjoy ;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the AuthoForeigners living rity of the same, That from and after the first Day of June in the seven Years in Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty, all Persons any of our Colonies to be deem- born out of the Ligeance of his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, ed Natives, on who have inhabited and resided, or shall inhabit or reside, for the taking the Oaths, Space of seven Years or more, in any of his Majesty's Colonies in

&c.

ration of Fidelity, &c.

America, and shall not have been absent out of some of the said Colonies for a longer Space than two Months at any one Time during the said seven Years, and shall take and subscribe the Oaths, and make, repeat, and subscribe the Declaration appointed by an Act made in the first Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King GEORGE the First, intituled, An Act for the further Security of his Majesty's Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess SOPHIA, being Protestants; and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, his open and secret Abettors; or, being of the People called Quakers, shall make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity, and take and affirm the Effect of the Abjuration Oath, appointed and prescribed by an Act made in the eighth Year of the Reign of his said late Majesty, Quakers to sub intituled, An Act for granting the People called Quakers, such scribe the Decla Forms of Affirmation or Declaration, as may remove the Difficulties which many of them lie under; and also make and subscribe the Profession of his Christian Belief, appointed and prescribed by an Act made in the first Year of the Reign of their late Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY, intituled, An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects from the Penalties of certain Laws; before the Chief Judge, or other Judge of the Colony wherein such Persons respectively have so inhabited and resided, or shall so inhabit or reside, shall be deemed, adjudged, and taken to be his Majesty's natural-born Subjects of this Kingdom, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes, as if they, and every of them, had been or were born within this Kingdom; which said Oath or Affirmation and Subscription of the said Declarations respectively, the Chief Judge or other Judge of every of the said respective Colonies is hereby enabled and impowered to administer and take; and the taking and subscribing of every such Oaths or Affirmation, and the making, repeating, and subscribing of every such Declaration, shall be before such Chief Judge or other Judge, in open Court, between the Hours of nine and twelve in the Forenoon; and shall be entered in the same Court, aud also in the Secretary's Office of the Colony wherein such Person shall so inhabit and reside: And every Chief Judge or other Judges of every respective Colony, before whom such Oaths or Affirmation shall be taken, and every such Declaration shall be made, repeated,