said, 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. SEC. 12. The children of persons duly naturalized under any of the laws of the United States, or who, previous to the passage of any law on that subject, by the government of the United States, may have become citizens of any one of the states, under the laws thereof, being under the age of twentyone years, at the time of their parents being so naturalized or admitted to the rights of citizenship, shall, if dwelling in the United States, be considered as citizens of the United States; and the children of persons who now are, or have been citizens of the United States, shall, though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, be considered as citizens of the United States. The right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never resided within the United States: And no person heretofore proscribed by any state, or who has been legally convicted of having joined the army of Great Britain during the war of the revolution, shall be admitted a citizen, without the consent of the legislature of the state in which such person was proscribed. Children of persons naturalized before the fourteenth of April, eighteen hundred and two, under age at the time of their parents' naturalization, were, if dwelling in the United States on the fourteenth of April, eighteen hundred and two, to be considered as citizens of the United States. SEC. 13. Any alien who was residing within the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States, before the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, may be admitted to become a citizen, on due proof made to some one of the courts aforesaid, that he has resided two years at least, within and under the jurisdiction of the United States, and one year, at least, immediately preceding his application, within the state or territory where such court is at the time held; and on his declaring on oath or affirmation, that he will support the constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and particularly by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, whereof he was before a citizen or subject; and moreover, on its appearing to the satisfaction of the court that, during the said term of two years, he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same; and when the alien, applying for admission to citizenship, shall have borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the orders of nobility in the kingdom or state from which he came, on his moreover making, in the court, an express renunciation of his title or order of nobility, before he shall be entitled to such admission: all of which proceeding, required in this provision to be performed in the court, shall be recorded by the clerk thereof. SEC. 14. Every court of record, in any individual state, having common law jurisdiction, and a seal and clerk or prothonotary, shall be considered as a district court, within the meaning of the naturalization act; and every alien, who may have been naturalized in any such court, shall enjoy the same rights and privileges, as if he had been naturalized in a district or circuit court of the United States. SEC. 15. No person who shall have arrived in the United States, after February the seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, who shall not, for the continued term of five years next preceding his admission, have resided within the United States, without being at any time during the said five years, out of the territory of the United States. ACT OF CONGRESS TO AMEND THE ACTS REGULATING THE FEES, COSTS, AND OTHER JUDICIAL SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembted, That hereafter, before the accounts of the United States marshals, district attorneys and clerks, are presented to the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for settlement, they shall be examined and certified to by the district judge of the United States in the district in which the officers presenting the accounts officiate, whether in the states or territories, and the same shall be subject to revision upon their merits by said accounting officer, as in case of other public accounts: Provided, however, That no accounts of fees or costs paid to any witness or juror, upon the order of any judge or commissioner, shall be so reexamined as to charge any marshal for an enormous taxation of such fees or costs. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the accounts of the commissioners of the United States circuit court shall be examined and certified to by the district judge of the district in which they are appointed, previous to their presentation to, or revision by, the accounting officers of the Treasury Department. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in no case shall the fees of more than four witnesses be taxed against the United States in the examination of criminal cases before the commissioners of the United States circuit courts, unless their materiality and importance shall first be approved and certified to by the United States district attorney for the district in which the examination shall take place, subject to revision, as in other cases. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in all these cases before mentioned, an appeal shall lie from the decision of the accounting officers to the secretary of the Interior. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the judges of the supreme court in each of the territories, or a majority of them, shall, when assembled at their respective seats of government, fix and appoint the several times and places of holding the several courts in their respective districts, and limit the duration of the terms thereof: Provided, That the said courts shall not be held at more than three places in any one territory : And provided, further, That the judge or judges holding such courts shall adjourn the same, without day, at any time before the expiration of such terms, whenever, in his or their opinion, the further continuance thereof is not necessary. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all cost and fees for services rendered by the clerks of the several courts in the district of Columbia, chargeable to others than the United States, shall be payable immediately after the services are performed, and shall be collected by such rules and regulations, not incompatible with law, as may be prescribed by the courts in which such services are rendered, but shall in no case, be paid by the United States. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the several circuit and district courts of the United States, the district courts of the territories, and the criminal court of the district of Columbia, shall have the power to discharge the grand juries of the respecsive courts whenever they shall be of opinion that the public interests will not be subserved by a further continuance of the session of said grand jury. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That no officer of the United States, including the bailiffs, guards, or deputies of the United States marshals, whether in the states, territories, or district of Columbia, shall be entitled to witness fees, either before a court, or commissioners where he is officiating. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the United States shall hereafter be liable to the justices and constables of the county of Washington, in the district of Columbia, for their fees, and services in cases of felony only, and so much of the fifteenth section of the act of May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled, "An act to continue, alter, and amend the charter of the city of Washington," as provided otherwise, is hereby repealed; said fees shall be paid by the United States marshal, upon the approval of the judge of the criminal court of the district of Columbia, subject to the revision by the accounting officers of the treasury, and to appeal to the secretary of the interior. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of each of the judges of the supreme court of the respective territories of the United States to designate and appoint one person as clerk of the district over which he presides, where one is not already appointed, and to designate and retain but one such clerk where more than one is already appointed, and only such district clerks shall be entitled to a compensation from the United States except for fees taxable to the United States. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That so much of the third section of the act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, entitled "An act to regulate the fees and costs to be allowed to clerks, marshals and attorneys of the circuit and district courts of the United States, and for other purposes," as requires "that when the compensation of any clerk shall be less than five hundred dollars per annum, the difference ascertained and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the treasury shall be paid to him therefrom," is hereby repealed. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That all accounts of the United States district attorneys for services rendered in cases instituted in the United States or state courts, when the United States is a party in interest, but not of record; or in cases instituted against the officers of the United States or their deputies or duly appointed agents, for acts committed or omitted or suffered by them in the lawful discharge of their duties, shall be audited and allowed as in other cases, assimilating the fees, as near as may be, to those provided by said act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, for like or similar services. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That no marshal or deputy marshal, of any of the courts of the United States, shall hold or exercise the duties of commissioner of any of said courts, nor receive compensation therefor. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That whenever from any cause, it may be impossible for the district attorney to attend at court, it shall be his duty to see that a meet and proper person, learned in the law, residing as near the place where the court is held as possible, does attend to such business as |