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 256 FKDBBAIi BBFOBTEB. �poor and useless shift to attempt to shelter themselves behind the opinions, whether officiai or unoffioial, of lawyers who advised them to do so. �Still, the fact that these defendants did seek and accept legal ad vice is an indication of good faith, and is a fact proper to be considered, even if the advioe which they took mislead them into the commission of a penal offence. �With these remarks I will leave the jury to deal themselves with the question whether the rejection of the votes under consideration was done in good faith or with wrongful intent, and will only remark that if that question is left in doubt by the evidence, the defendants are eutitled to the beneat of the doubt. ���In bs Oamillb. �(Circuit Court, D. Oregon. NovemberS, 1880.) �1. Natubalization— Whitb Person. �A person of half white and half Indian blood ia not a " white per- son," withln the meaning of this phrase as used in the naturalization laws, and therefore he is not entitled to be admitted to citizenshlp tbereunder. �Petition to be Admitted to Citizenship. �Deadi, D. J. Frank Camille petitions to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, under section 2167 of the Eevised Statutes, as an alien who bas resided in the United States the three years next preceding his arriving at the age of 21 years, and without having made the declara- tion of his intentions in that respect required in the first con- dition of section 2165 of the Eevised Statutes. �From the evidence it appears that the applicant was born at Kamloops, in British Columbia, in 1847, and at the age of 17 came to Oregon, where he bas ever since resided, and that be is otherwise entitled to admission, if he is a "white per- son," within the meaning of that phrase as used in section 2167 of the Eevised Statutes, as amended by the act of Feb- ��� �