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1788 592 (1788)

handle is hein.ssl/ssny0374 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS
STATE OF NEW-YORK,
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FIRST MEETING OF THE ELEVENTH        SESSION OF TIlE LEGISLA.
TURE OF THE SAID STATE.
CHAP. 1.
AN ACT to naturalize Robert Edineston.
PASSED the 6th of February. 1788.
Preamble.  WIEREAS Robert Edmeston hath by his petition to the legislature,
prayed, that an act of naturalization might be passed in his behalf.
Therefore
Robert    lie it enacted by the People of the Slate of zrew York, riepresented ht
ndeston Senate and Assenmbly, and it is hereby enated b' (he authority of (he same,
natural-
Ized.   That the said Robert Edmeston shall be, and he is hereby naturalized,
and shall from and after having taken and subscribed, in any court of
record within this State, the oath of allegiance to this State, and abjured
and renounced all allegiance and subjection to all and every foreign
King Prince Potentate and State, in all matters ecclesiastical as well
as civil, be deemed a citizen of this State, to all intents, constructions
and lrposes whatsoever ; and that the court, in which the said Robert
Edmeston shall be admitted to take such oath, shall cause an entry
thereof to be made, in the minutes of the said court, and shall give a
certificate to the said Robert Edmeston, purporting, that he hath been
admitted to such oath, in the said court, in pursuance of this act ; and
that he shall upon taking of such oath, pay to the judges of such court,
six shillings, and to the cleik thereof three shillings.
And whereas the said Robert Edmeston, hath by his said petition
represented, that he hath unadvisedly made purchase of lands and ten-
ements in this State, and hath prayed relief in the premises. Therefore,
Previous  Be it futther enacted by the adhority aforesaid, That any lands ten-
ofrladse ements or hereditaments, lying within this State, and purchased previous
legalized, to the passing of this act, by the said Robert Edmeston, shall not o.r

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