Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1889 — A Foreigner’s Property Rights. [ARTICLE]

A Foreigner’s Property Rights.

An alien who may come to this country intending to become a citizen as soon as he can be naturalized, upon making deposition to that effect before any officer authorized to take proof of deeds, shall be entitled, aft *r taking out his first papers, to acquire real estate. Certificate of such deposition is filed in a book kept for such use in the office of the Secretary of State. The person so acquiring real estate may sell, assign, mortgage or dispose of it in any manner for the ensuing six years as if he were a native citizen, but he cannot lease it. In case of his death within the six years real estate thus regularly acquired falls to his heirs, if he die intestate, as if he had been naturalized. —New York Times.