The Court of Claims has already found in favor of John C. Lynch on every proposition except the question of citizenship. On that question he did not have direct and positive evidence as to taking out his papers of naturalization. He was an Irishman and came to this country in 1840. le went to California in about 1852. and the testimony in the record adduced before the Committee on the Judiciary sho~vs that he was naturalized duly and properly before an officer in California in 1852. that on his returning to Texas along in 1860 he got off his horse to shoot a deer. and went off some distance from his horse and left his property. his money. and his naturalization papers on the horse.. And while he was after the deer. trying to shoot it. the Indians captured the horse and carried it away.
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