The superior court of New York was furnished in advance with thirty thousand blank certificates of naturalization. the supreme court with thirtynine thousand. making sixtynine thousand blank certificates in all A count was made by the clerk of the court to ascertain the number that was left after the naturalization was over. and only eighteen hundred and some odd of these blanks were left. Therefore there were naturalized either in court or in Tammany Hall headquarters from sixty thousand to sixtynine thousand in the year 186S. notwithstanding the records show only about forty thousand. There were nine standing witnesses. with a captain of the squad. witnesses in behalf of nearly seven thousand persons desiring to become citizens. One of them. the captain of the squad. was a witness in one court in nine hundred and eightysix cases. and the judge knew personally that he was a drunken thief.
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