In the Supreme and Superior Courts only were frauds proven. To what extent we will now consider. The following table was sworn to as being the daily number of applications for naturalization on file in the Supreme Court Clerk’s office for 1868:
TABLE III
Applicants for Naturalization in Supreme Court, New York City, in October, 1868
| October 6 | 6 |
| “ 7 | 8 |
| “ 8 | 379 |
| “ 9 | 668 |
| “ 10 | 717 |
| “ 12 | 723 |
| “ 13 | 901 |
| “ 14 | 523 |
| “ 15 | 857 |
| “ 16 | 721 |
| “ 17 | 633 |
| “ 19 | 955 |
| “ 20 | 944 |
| “ 21 | 773 |
| “ 22 | 675 |
| “ 23 | 587 |
| Total | 10,070 |
The significance of these great totals of applications for naturalization within a few days before election appears in Mr. Davenport’s summary of the behavior of the judges:[11]
But the essential aid rendered by these judges need not be further detailed. It was mainly comprised of one or more of the following derelictions of duty:
I. Hasty and incomplete examination of applicants and witnesses.
II. Total neglect at times to examine the one class or the other.
III. Through negligence, imposition, which might easily have been guarded against, or direct complicity, the issue of certificates in the names of persons who never appeared in Court, applied therefor, produced a witness, or took an oath.