The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-16
REGISTRATION AND NATURALlZA
TION.

0EUlSl hAIlVN AMI A~AA
TION.
The committees on registration and natur-
alization Of the State Central and Parish Com
mittees now meet daily at their respective
headquarters.
Prompt reports should be made to the secre-
tarv of either committee Of all violations OF
law. fraudulent registration, or refusal to
register persons entitled thereto.
The following extracts of legal opinions by
w r. Whitaker ESQ.,, attorney Of the COM
n,;ttees. are published for Information. Re
fnsal of super 7isors or assistant supervisors 70
conform thereto should be promptly reported:
The Assistant Supervisors have no right to
retain naturalization papeIs under any clrcnm-
stances. They have no right to inquire into the
circumstances OF naturalization, INTO the esi-
dence on which The naturalization was made or
TO 90 behind the seal OF the court and signature
of the clerk. ..
t,ralized papers should be arrested Tor larceny at
once.
Relative to the case of ---, have to say
that if he ia naturalzed, if his papers have seal
of court and signature OF clerk II he can be lden-
issued. and if he has resided twelve months in
4he state and ten days in the parish, he is enti-
lied to registration, whatever he may have
answered to unauthorized questions by the
assistant supervisor or any one else.
Even if he obtained naturalization improperly,
he is a naturalized citizen, entitled to register
and vote, If the other requisite named above are
not wanting.
naturalization certificate for any canse, if it is
1roperly signed and sealed. BY this l mean
simply, that it certihes to judgment winch
registration and election officers cannot set ASIDE.
The following resolution was adopted by
the Advisory Board upon this subject:
Resolued, That when assistant supervisors OF
registration refuse to register naturallzed cltl-
zens on the ground Of their exhibiting frauouient
naturalization papers, it is their duty to cause the
immediate arrest and prosecution OF SAID appii,,
cants, and for that purpose at once 10 NE SAD
napers in court to be used as evidence, but that
in no other cases can the said assistant supervls-
.ors withhold said papers from said applicants 80
denied registration, but should return to them
the said papers.
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Office State Registrar Of Voters,
New Orleans, Oct. 2, 1S74.l
[Crcular No. 81
To Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors OF
In consequence of the following resolution Of
the Advisory Board Of Registration, VIZ:
Rooms ADVISORY BOARD, I
"New Orleans, La, Oct. l, 1874.
.sCol. VIM. Wright, State Registrar OF voters:
ssSi1.-I am instructed by The Advisory Board
to transmit the following resolution this day
adopted, viz
"Resoced, That the Supervisors and Assistant
Supervisors of Registration throughout the
State be instructed to permit the United States
Supervisors OF Election to make lists OF all per
sons who may have been registered the same to
be done without impeding registration and public
notice be requested to that effect.
ssI have the honor to be respectfully.
"(Signed) Il. A. BURKE,
Secretary Of Board.
Supervisors ana Assistant Supervisors Of Reg
istration are hereby instructed to extend all facl
tiles to the United States Supervisors Of Election
to enable them to comply with the above resolu-
lion, and allow such Il list to be made by botl
parties as will verify the correctness OF the regis
trution, wherever the same can be done without
delay TO, or interruption OF, the proper w0rk O
their Offices VIM. WhlIHI,
State Registrar Of Voters.
WALTER 8. LONG,
Chief Clerk State Registrar Of Voters:
Your letter Of this date is at hand, You ask il
fore gn-born colored men are entitled to registra
ton without due proof Of their naturalization I'm
der the laws OF the United States.
To this reply. that they are not so entitled
Until July IA, 1870 there was no way provided
by which such persons could become citizens o
the United States. On that day an act was ap
proved tsee page 256, 16t hU. S. Stat.), extend
ing the benefits Of the naturalization laws Il
eali0ns Of African nativity"
The same proof o. naturalization should be re
uuired Of the colored alien born as is required OF
the white alien-born. Their is no distinction il
favor Of either race as to naturailza atom.
You inform me that Mr. William Casey was a
! citizen of the Republic of Texas before annexa
.tion and ask what course he shall take to- secur,
Let him offer proof Of citizenship of Texas a
the time named. That entities him to all right
as a United States citizen, precisely as if he wa
born in the United States.
Ono who has served term in the penitentiar,
has no more right to register than one under
age. II the Supervisor registers HIM he violate
State and United States law and can be prose
euted criminally.
The United States Supervisor or any citizel
has a right to challenge such registration
and the right to challeng such vote on election
day. If such q party votes, representation
should be made in the shape Of atidavits to g
before the Returning board. after failure every
where else.
As to the case Of Jno. Monner, John, o
Twelfth Ward who has lost his naturalization
papers, l am of opinion that his only course 4
secure registration will be to send for duplicate
certificate Of the judgment OF the court that de
creed him to be q citizen.
That Will be the best evidence Of his NATURAL
cation at all events; and il he wishes to guar'
against future trouble. let him record his judg
7ae,t OF naturalization here His affidavit tina
such Judgment was once rendered, does no
p'ore that it was rendered.
United States Commissioner Byrne asks Mr.
Mari to refer him to the law authorizing Unite'
Sfntn &oI-n ~
:aEzed citizens who have lost certificates, with
view to voting on such affidavit.
There is no such law. The parties who hav
lost their papers must send for certified copies.
You inform me that the United States Super
visor for the Twelfth Ward, New Orleans, ad
vises you that one Robert Smith, wing applied
for registration, claims to be twenty-one year
him (the United States SUP pr) the privileg
Of examining the applicant - D his age and