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IB CO dc a j rcaay r vnuy lour aays more,-jor.ty in la, 1,059 ;fRepubli-to make timatc.tty, N. G.,section towent off ork, even tie thing to” their 1 off theritli any ih Head-'ork citynnot do-of thoseHo:an.for ■jQfTis-tions of increase sense of 38. Men reets, in mdhot; ty is to ew days noreand;VHatnrallzBtltii Frandi-Tho Barnard and McCutm Mill* in New York, uud 1UC aaf thef Grind.The Republican Naturalization Committee in j New York city havo had intheir employ for some time past several gentlemen, who have keen observing the process of naturalization in thb New York courts and! making notes of it. One of thes^ gentlemen, Mr. M. R. Leverson, a well j known lawyer, has made a detailed report of/^hat he personally saw, and the disclosures are absolutely sickening. Mr. Leverson. first gives an account of the'proceedings in Judge McCuun’s court—theSuperior. j He says*Tfte olq sheriffs office in the old „ CityHall has been devoted to the first stage in the perpetration of tho frauds: now about to bp described. In this room there have been employed daily^twelvo to sixteen, clerks, and from four to eight to a late* .in .0 * *1 ’• ■ *• v » v • : • v * • »'• ■ • *hour ofjf-be night, divided into gangs ofOne of eachgenerally four to each1E*S cabi-hundrnames ana addresses ot intended applicants or supposed applicants for naturalization. On the talilo is a pile of printed forms, of which the following is a copy. j(Wo Joinit the form, j; Thcj foreman of the gang reads from the i 1st before him a natao and-address to each clerk, who fills in tho name and address in their proper places in the above form. The clerk then forges thereto tjh* signature of tho applicant or .supposed applicant at the place marked.* Each clerk has a different name to fill I in as applicant* but all insert tho name of a common voucheo for their respectiyo applicants, and forge also his subscription to the affidavit iufended for him. During part of about forty minutes that I was in the office between nine and ten o’clock, p. M., on Thursday, the loth day of October; instant, I counted one' hundred of these forms filled in and subscriptions forged, by ;the three clerks of tlip onlyri t irrAfl* 4- T bnand talked doctors say it.A few e\ of Marath crossing a -closely resesitting im while pass took it intc up with th poor kitty i were soon i was not a * suits of clolwThere is ; ing lists: for an * Shermt SheridiThom a Farrag Schofie Meade, Sickles Ord,Beech e: Agassis Chapin Lowell Eruersc Ho wanVoters o choose for ) ciates yDissiTHE firm g ville, isthaccounts due t illCfiAKDS A street, Wcllsvi43-3Latest
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Wellsville Free Press
Wellsville, New York, US
Wed, Oct 28, 1868
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