Chap. 358.—An ACT to Amend Section 1, Chapter 3 of the Code of 1860,
Defining who are Citizens of the State of Virginia.

Approved October 81, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section first
of chapter third of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred
and sixty, be and the same is hereby re-enacted and amended
to read as follows:

Ҥ 1. All persons born in this state; all.persons born in any
other state of this Union, who may be or become residents of
this state; all aliens naturalized under the laws of the United
States, who may be or become residents of this staté; all per-
sons who have obtained a right to citizenship under former
laws; and all children, wherever born, whose father, or if he
be dead, whose mother, shall be a citizen of this state at the
time of the birth of such children, shall be deemed citizens of
this state.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.