Carelessness may intervene in an act of a clerk. There may be destruction of the records by fire. by accident. by a thousand causes. If gentlemen will turn to a single piece of testimony. on page 223 of the record. they will find that one Templar testifies that he appeared before the clerk to procure a copy of the record of his naturalization. he having taken the oath of citizenship. and that after hunting for the record the clerk failed to find it. and "told me that he would give the matter a more careful and thorough search. and that I should call again in a few days. or at my convenience. and that he would then have it ready for me. I have repeatedly. during the last ten years. called at the clerks office for a certified COpy. and have never been able to procure it." That is thecourt on the perfc rmances of which it is proposed to take away the citikenship of Captain White. a court in which a man who had taken the oath of citizenship applied vainly for ten years for the certificate to which he was entitled. In another case. that of a Germanborn citizen. the judge of the court. the ingenious jurist who is before this House now as the contestant. had had a slight difference with this gentleman.
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