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[ Act No. 3448, November 30, 1928 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN ENTITLED "THE NATURALIZATION LAW."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. The following new sections are hereby inserted between sections thirteen and fourteen of Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and twenty-seven:
"SEC. 13 (a). Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married to a citizen of the Philippine Islands, and who might herself be lawfully naturalized, shall be deemed a citizen of the Philippine Islands.

"SEC. 13 (b). Children of persons who have been duly naturalized under this law, being under the age of twenty-one years at the time of the naturalization of their parents, shall, if dwelling in the Philippine Islands, be considered citizens thereof.

"SEC. 13 (c). Children of persons naturalized under this law who have been born in the Philippine Islands after the naturalization of their parents shall be considered citizens thereof.
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, November 30, 1928.
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