Dicta. though it may be. it is dicta coming with such weight to this House you dare not raise a technical objection to it. I shall not stop to read from them. but the textbooks have copied this language and laid it down as law. I say the textbook writers on this question lay down the law with reference to proof of naturalitation just exactly the same as I have defined it here. All of themmy time will not permit me to read from them. I come to another case. a case over in New York. involving the validity of five or six thousand naturalization papers issued in 18rl8. Was there a record ? No part of one. only an indexbook.
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