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Excerpt from Naturalization, Embracing the Past History of the Subject the of Present State of the Law in British of the Belgium, in Land, Different Countries of the World States Naturalization is the act of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native-bom citizen or subject. It 18 of two kinds, collective and personal. A collective natu ralization takes place when a country or state is incorporated in another country by gift, cession, or conquest. Thus, when England and Scotland were formed into one kingdom in the reign of Queen Anne, it was declared by the 4th section of the act of union, that subjects of the United Kingdom possessed thereafter all the rights, privileges, and advantages enjoyed by the subjects of either kingdom and when Louis iana was ceded by France to the United States in 1803, it was provided by the 3d article of the treaty, that its inhabit ants should be entitled to all the rights and privileges of citizens of the United States and a similar effect took place when the republic of Texas was annexed to and formed into one of the states of the American Union. There have been in stances, moreover, where nations have conferred generally upon the subjects of other nations all the rights enjoyed by their own subjects. Such a privilege was conceded by France to Spain by the Bourbon family compact of 1761; and formerly m France the Dutch and Swiss had by treaty stipulations the rights of natives. Personal naturalization 18 where the privi leges of a subject or citizen are conferred upon an individual by the license or letters patent of a sovereign or the act of a legislative body, or are obtained by the individual himself under a general law, upon his complying with certain condi tions prescribed by the law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.