The judgment of the court admitting the contestee to citizenship is one thing. the ptroof of it is quite another. The friends of the contestee confound the two. which produces all the fog and misunderstanding in this case. I say it is not a judgment complete until a record is made of it. and the friends of contestee do not claim that any record ever was made of the proceedings of the court by which he claims to have been naturalized. except a certificate which he says that he had. but can not produce it. Now. the gentleman from Massachusetts and others rely on the case in 6 Cranch. which is about the strongest on their side of the question. therefore I will invite the attention of the House to it. as an examination of it fails to bear out their assertions. The certificate in that case is as follows: At a district court held at Suffolk.
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