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5698. NATURALIZATION, Eligibility.—

All persons who, by their own oath or affirmation,
or by other testimony, shall give
satisfactory proof to any court of record in
this Colony that they propose to reside in
the same seven years, at the least, and who
shall subscribe the fundamental laws, shall be
considered as residents, and entitled to all
the rights of persons natural born.—
Proposed Va. Constitution. Ford ed., ii, 26.
(June. 1776)