The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-15
REGISTRATION AND NATURAL1ZA.
TION.

llVNs
The committees on registration and natu,
alization Of the State Central and Parish Com
mittees now meet daily at their RESPECTIVE
headquarters.
Prompt reports should be made to the secre
tary of either committee of all violations O
law, fraudulent registration, OK refusal Il
= register persons entitled thereto.
= The following extracts of legal opinions b.
w. r. Whitaker, Esq, attorney of the com
mittees, are published for information. Re
fusal Of super 7isors or assistant supervisors K
conform thereto should be promptly reported
The Assistant Supervisors have no right I,
retain naturalization papers under any ciroum
stances. They have no r3Eht to inquire into thu
circumstances Of naturalkati into the evi
dence on which the naturalization was made o.
of the clerk.
uralized papers should be arrested for larceny a
once:
Relative to the case Of -, 1 have to say
that if he is naturalized, II his papers have sea-
OF court and signature Of clerk if he can be iden
titled as the party to whom the certificate waa
Ii
the State and ten days in the parish, he is emit.
tied 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 10 a naturalized citizen, entitled to register
and.vote, II the other requisite named above are
not wanting.
There is no such thing as going behind the
properly signed and sealed. BY this I mean
simply. that it certiies to a judgment which
registration and election officers cannot set aside
The following resolution was adopted by
the Advisory Board upon this subject:
Resolved, That when assistant supervisors Of
registration refuse to register naturaliZed citi-
zens on the ground of their exhibiting fraudulent
naturalization papers, it is their duty to cause the
immediate arrest and prosecution OF said appi-
-cants, and for that purpose at once to file said
papers in court, to be used as evidence, but that
in other cases can the said assistant supervis-
,ors withhold said papers from said applicants so
denied registration, but should return to them
the said papers.
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Office State Registrar of Voters,
New Orleans, Oct. 2, 1874.
[Circular No. S.
To Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors Of
In consequence Of the following resolution Of
the Advisory Board of Registration, viz:
"RooMs ADVISORY BOARD,
New Orleans, La, Oct. ], 1874.
''Sir-I am instructed by The Advisory Board
to transmit the following resolution this day
"Resolred, That the Supervisors and Assistant
State be instructed to permit the United States
Supervisors OF Election to make lists Of all per-
sons who may have been registered tho same to
be done without peding registration and public
notice be requested to that effect.
II have the honor to be respectfully.
''(6igned) E. A. BURKE,
Secretary Of Board"
Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors Of Reg
istraton are hereby Instructed to extend all facl
ties to the United States Supervisors Of Election
ton, and allow such list to be made by both
parties Is will verify the correctness of the regis
tration, wherever the same can be done without
delay e. or interruption o. the pr1per work Of
State Registrar Of Voters.
WALTER s. Lone,
Chief Jerk State Registrar Of Voters
Your letter of this date is 1t hand, You ask if
fore gn-born colored men are entitled to registra
ton without due proof Of their naturalization IN
der the laws OF the United States.
10 tllS j reply. tnaG tney are not SO entitled
Until July IA, 1870 there was no way provided
by which such persons could become citizens Of
the United States. On that day an act was ap-
proved Gee page 256,. Let hU. s. Stat.), extend
ing the benefits OF the naturalization laws to
"aliens OF African nativity"
The same proof OF naturalization should be re-
CURED Of the colored alien born is required Of
the white alien-born. Their is no distinction In
favor Of either race az to naturalization.
You inform me that Mr.. William Casey was
citizen of the Republic of Texas before annexa.
ton, and ask what course he shall take to secure
registration.
the time named. That entities him to all rights
United States citizen, precisely as il he was
born in the United States.
One who has served term in the penitentiary
has-no more right to register than one under
age. II the Supervisor registers him he violates
State and United States law and can be prose-
cuted criminally.
The United States Supervisor or any citizen
has right to challenge such registration,
and the right to challeng such vote on election
day. II such party votes. representations
should be made in the shape of affidavts to 60
before the Returning board after failure every
where else.
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As to the case of Jno. Monner, John, Of
Twelfth Ward, who has lost his naturalization
papers, am Of opinion that his only course to
etCulc IcklbtIatIOH WILL % 10 ecuu IOI u uuDuCRtc
certificate OF the judgment OF the court that de-
creed him to be q citizen.
That will be the best evidence OF his naturali-
cation At all events; and if he wishes to guard
against future trouble, let him record has j,tdg-
n,e1st of naturalization here. His affidavit that
such Judgment was once rendered, does nos
prore that it was rendered.
United States Commissioner Byrne asks Mr..
4arr to refer him to the law authorizing United
States Commissioners to take evidence OF natur-
al zed citizens who have lost certificates, with
view to voting on such affidavit.
There is no such law. The parties who have
lost their papers must send for certified copies.
You inform me that the United States Super
visor for the Twelfth Ward New Orleans, ad-
yises you that one Robert Smith, having applied
for registration, claims to be twenty-one years
old and the State Assistant Supervisor refuses
him (the United States Supervisory the privilege
OF examining the applicant IS to his age and Of
insisting on proof Of the fact.
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