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Adams, qui tam, v. Woods U.S. 336 (1805)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0047 and id is 1 raw text is: sse SUPREME: COURT U. S. WXLV.AiUrs sure and strictures upon the deteimination of 7udge BL E wsworth in. Wiliams's case e? He himself acknowledges Cox'.L that after the 28th of October, 1795, ng. British subject \can purchase lands within the United States, so as to be protected by that treaty. If once this whimsical doctrine of antenatus be ad- mitted it will give rise to an infinity of. perpleking questions. An attainted loyalist, if he retains his citizenship may ieturn and be immediately eligible as a member of the hg'use .of representatives or the senate. After 14 years residence, though he ,cannot be naturalized without the consent of the state in *hich he was proscribed, .yet he may be president of the- United States. I inter from althesc'considerations that the expatria- ton. of Daniel Qoxe induced the forfeiture of alienage, and that he is thereby precluded from taking lands by descent in the inited States of America.* _ Cur. ad. vult. ADAMS, qui tam, v. WOODS. AnAS THIS was a.case certified from the circuit court of the V. Woons. United States for the Massachusetts district, in which the Lopinions of the judges of that court were opposed. The act of Soth JPr' It'Was an action'of debt for the pen.alty of 2000 dollars, 90, limitug tinder the 2d section of the act of congress of 22dof-March, r4tecutioo ing on the save trade from tates, extends ,the United States to an.y foreign pace or country. as well to pen- ol. 3,. p. 22. altie created . after, as before that act, and to The words of the' act are, shall forfeit and pa3 the actions of debt sum of two thousand- dollars ; one moiety. thereof to the as well as to n- use of the United States, and the other moiety thereof fonations and to the use of him or her who who shall sue for and prose- indictments. . cute the same. -The case of ,M' lcaine v. Cox's Lesseeby mistake dated Febrary 1804, was the first case decided in February Term, 1805.

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