cede

  • transitive verb To surrender possession of, especially by treaty. synonymrelinquish.
  • transitive verb To yield; grant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To yield; give way; submit.
  • To pass; be transferred; lapse.
  • To yield or formally resign and surrender to another; relinquish and transfer; give up; make over: as, to cede a fortress, province, or country by treaty.
  • To yield; grant. [Rare.]
  • To transfer, deliver, convey, grant.

denizen (n.)

early 15c., “a citizen, a dweller, an inhabitant,” especially “legally established inhabitant of a city or borough, a citizen as distinguished from a non-resident native or a foreigner,” from Anglo-French deinzein, denzein, (Old French deinzein) “one within” (the privileges of a city franchise; opposed to forein “one without”), from deinz “within, inside,” from Late Latin deintus, from de- “from” + intus “within” (see ento-).

Historically, an alien admitted to certain rights of citizenship in a country; a naturalized citizen (but ineligible to public office). Formerly also an adjective, “within the city franchise, having certain rights and privileges of citizenship” (late 15c.). Compare foreign.

ratify (v.)

mid-14c., ratifien, “confirm, approve, sanction, validate by formal act of approval,” from Old French ratifier (13c.), from Medieval Latin ratificare “confirm, approve,” literally “fix by reckoning,” from Latin ratus “fixed by calculation; determined; approved; certain, sure; valid” (past-participle adjective from reri “to reckon, think;” from PIE root *re- “to reason, count”) + combining form of facere “to make” (from PIE root *dhe- “to set, put”). Related: Ratifiedratifying.

Naturalization Act of 1870

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1870

The Naturalization Act of 1870 (16 Stat.254) was a United States federal law that created a system of controls for the naturalization process and penalties for fraudulent practices. It is also noted for extending the naturalization process to “aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent” while also maintaining exclusion of the process to naturalized Chinese Americans and other groups.[3]