The Trail of the Tiger
Tammany: 1789-1928
Being An account of Tammany from 1789; The Society of St. Tammany, or Columbian Order;
Tammany Hall; The Organization; and the Sway of the Bosses

By Allan Frankin

Originally published 1928
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that you arrived in this country three years before attaining that age, and have resided five years in the United States, and for the last year in the state of New York.' He would then add: `And you, the several witnesses, swear that the contents of your several affidavits are true.'

"This was followed by the issue of certificates, which were stamped in blank with the seal of the court, and lay in huge piles upon the clerk's desk. Each application, as signed by the judge, was passed to one of the clerks, and a certification filled up and delivered to the applicant, or such person as had personated an applicant, when the oath of allegiance to the United States would be administered to all at the same time. The same person often appeared as witness for a score of applicants, and oftentimes upon several occasions during the same evening. The more prominent of these standing witnesses were Patrick McCaffrey, James and Patrick Goff, John Moran, John Ward, Joseph Moore, Michael Marrow, Solomon Berliner and Thomas Salkald.

"In the Superior Court, before judge McCunn, who naturalized during the day, and at times both day and evening, the same gentleman has stated that the method adopted was for the clerk to call off a lot of names in the order in which the papers came to his hands, when the parties were admitted inside the railing. The applications were then passed to

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