Chap. 0030 AN ACT FOR NATURALIZING WILLIAM BOND.

Whereas William Bond, late of Devonshire, in Great Britain, goldsmith, now residing at Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has petitioned the General Court that he may be naturalized, and be thereby entitled to all the rights, liberties and privileges of a free citizen of this Commonwealth :

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority

of the same, That the said William Bond, upon his taking the oaths of allegiance and abjuration required by the constitution of this Commonwealth, before two Justices of the Peace of the county where he dwells, shall be deemed, adjudged, and taken to be a free citizen of this Commonwealth, to all intents, constructions and purposes, as if he, the said William, had been an inhabitant of the territory, now the Commonwealth aforesaid, at the time of making the present form of civil government.

And it is further enacted, That the Justices before whom the same oaths shall be taken, shall return a certificate of the same into the Secretary's office, to be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose.

November 23, 17S5.