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276. ALIENAGE, Law of Violated.—

The bill for establishing a National Bank undertakes
* * * to form the subscribers into a corporation, [and] to enable them, in their
corporate capacities, to make alien subscribers
capable of holding lands; and so far is
against the laws of Alienage.
Opinion on the Bank Bill. Washington ed. vii, 555. Ford ed., v, 284.
(Feb. 1791)