The San Francisco call., 1898-02-17
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

l A DOLLAR OF 1795-G. W. B., Hard
 wick Station, Fresno County, Cal For
 a dollar of 1795 dealers in old coins o1fer
 from 9 to 50 cents premium. Dollars orI os | that date can be purchased from oealei' | for s2 75.
 THE NAVAL ACADEMY-T. P, Mon, | terey, Cal For admission to the ohlteu | States Naval Academy at Annapolis llIo | applicant must be not under fifteen years
 of age nor more than twenty years t oiet | One desiring to enter the academy mus | notify the Representative in Congress oi l the district in which he lives and II ap3I an l pointed to vacancy the applicant WIli be notified of time and place of exam | ination.
 ALSKINS-Constant Reader, Stock. | ton, Cal. By far the greatest portion ol | the worlds fur-seal catch is dyed in Lon. don. Some skins are prepared In tHe United States, but the process has never been carried on to a large extent, Tor tne
 don dye" There is plant in Brooklyn.
 N. Y... and skins to a very limited extent
 have been dyed in San Francisco. Lon
 don is recognized as the place TOT aye ing skins.
 THE LOYAL LEGIoN-F. S., Klamath. Cal. The military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States was organ ized by officers and ex-officers of the army, navy and marine corps of the United States who took part in the Civil war or
 
 eldest male lineal descendent, according to the rules of primogeniture. There are twenty communicates, each representing
 State, and one commandery represent
 membership is about 5000.
 NATURALIZATION PAPERs-F. F..
 San Mateo, Cal. While it is true that all
 judicial and executive officers of the United States Government are bound to
 recognize the seal and signature of all legally constituted courts, in the matter of an alien or a natural-born citizen going
 abroad he should provide himself with passport, to be obtained from the United States Secretary of State. A naturalized citizen should have such in addition to his certificate of naturalization. The cer- tificate does not require the signature of
 Federal officer if issued out of State court, but the applicant for passport
 must send it to the Secretary of State, who will return it in due time with the passport. To obtain passport the rule IS that in addition to transmitting his certificate. or a certified copy, for inspec- tion, he must state in his affidavit when and from what port he emigrated to this
 country, what ship he sailed in, where he | has lived since his arrival in the United | States, when and before what court he l Was naturaliZed. and that he is the iden- | tical person described in the certificate of 1 naturalization. The signature to the ap- l plfcation should conform in orthography
 to the applicants name as written in the
 naturalization papers, which the depart
 ment follows
 | GOVERNORS OF CALIFORNIAN D.
 and L. E., City. The following named
 were elected Governors of California since | 1S49. There is also given the year of elec- | tion and the political party to which
 each belonged at the time of election:
 P. H. Burnett, 1s49, no party; John Bigler,
 1851 and 1853, Democrat; J. Nicely Johnson.
 1855, Know Nothing; John B. Weller, 1857, Democrat Milton s. Latham, 1859, Demo-
 crat; Leland Stanford. 1861, Republican:
 Frederick F. Low, 1863, Union; Henry H.
 Haight, 1867. Democrat; Newton Booth,
 1871, Republican,; William Irwin, 1875, 1 Democrat; George c. Perkins, 1879. Re-
 publican; George Stoneman, 1882, Demo.
 crat; Washington Bartlett. 1886, Demo-
 crat H. H. Markham, 1890, Republican;
 James H. Budd, 1894, Democrat In addi-
 tion to this list there have been the fol-
 lowing named who were Lieutenant 1 Governors who succeeded Governors
 elected: John McDougald. Democrat,
 succeeded Burnett; John G. Downey, Dem-
 ocrat, succeeded Latham; Romualdo Pa- | checo, Republican, succeeded Booth, and R. w. Waterman, Republican, succeeded
 Bartlett. From this it appears that four | Governors were succeeded during their
 terms by Lieutenant-Governors- l having resigned and one died. At the | sixteen elections held nine Democrats l were elected, four Republicans and one | each Union, Know-Nothing and no party. 1 In 1849 there were cast 14213 votes for
 Governor and In 1894 2S4 ,54S.