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14 CITIZENS11IP AND SUFFRAGE IN MARYLAND.
To make complete our list of English Statutes on the subject of naturali-
zation, which were in force in our Province, reference should be made to
one,
of little importance, the Statute of 22 George II, ch. 1 LV (1749), which
provided
for the naturalization of foreigners serving on board of English whaling
ships.
During many years these English Statutes sufficed for Maryland. An
attempt was made to pass a naturalization law' in 1760, but it ivas eleven
years
later ere such an attempt inet with success. The occasion of the passage of
this law was the election to the Legislature of Jonathan Hagar by the free-
holders of Frederick County. Mr. Ha gar was a German by birth, and came
to America while a young man. He settled in the western part of the
Province, becariie a large land owner, and founded Il |
