[41] This exception is said to have been included principally to allow eligibility to Alexander Hamilton, who was born in the West Indies, under the British flag.
[42] 13 George II, chap. 7—Ruffhead’s Statutes-at-Large, vi, p. 384.
[43] See Channing’s History of the United States, vol. ii, pp. 413-416; also A. H. Carpenter, “Naturalization in England and the Colonies,” American Historical Review, vol. ix, p. 288.
[44] Constitution of the United States, art. i, sec. 8, 4.
[45] United States Statutes-at-Large, vol. i, pp. 103-104.
[46] United States Statutes-at-Large, vol. i, pp. 414-441.
[47] United States Statutes-at-Large, vol. ii, pp. 153-155.
[48] United States Statutes-at-Large, vol. ii, pp. 292-293.
[49] Ibid., p. 811.
[50] Ibid., vol. iii, p. 53.