Matthew's Lessee v. Rae

The CouRT, (Thruston, J., absent) was of opinion that Red-man was not naturalized; the State naturalization laws being superseded, and annulled by the Act of Congress, whose jurisdiction upon that subject is, under the Constitution, of the United States, exclusive; (Chirac v. Chirac, 2 Wheat. 261,) and that, according to the case of Spratt v. Spratt, 1 Peters, 343, the plaintiffs, although aliens, were entitled to recover.