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Show Registering.. The deputy aeaeeBors have been out several dayB, registering voters and assessing for tho city, and one ot them remarked yesterday that it was astonishing to him to note the number num-ber of people who bavo resided here for veara and who have not yet been naturalized. The necessity for residents resi-dents who bavo come hither from Foreign counlriea to take out their full papers before they are entitled to vole (should be impressed upon them, and that those in possession 9f only their declarations of intention are little better off tharr thoao who have bulnewlv immieratod. The nrivileeea and benefits enjoyed by full-fledged citizens ahould be represented to the dilatory ouea, and iualructinna imparted im-parted lo them to take immediate atepa to be recorded among the naturalized na-turalized Americana. The vote of thia city and county could be swelled to much larger proportions if those without Iheir second papers would attend to tbe procuringof them before lue oet oituuuu. it in a uuiy wmuu devolves upon all who have reaided here the requisite length of time to lecure their citizenship and be entitled to the elective franchise and all the right?, claims and privileges of tbe natural born Americans. |