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180 Americans should be the least numerous, and be located in the central parts. A little later, however, foreigners of adjacent countries were prohibited from colonization on the frontier. It is not certain that any resident foreigner had yet obtained his final and complete papers of naturalization; though a few may have done so, and many had made application and complied with all the preliminary requirements, receiving certificates which served all practical purposes. Newcomers of this final year of the decade were fifty, of whom twenty-four named in a note may be regarded as pioneers proper. The arrival of Kit Carson this year is doubtful. Bee, Jones, Nye, Snook, and Young were the names best known in the annals of later years. Some details about all the men named in this chapter and many visitors not here named may be found in the Pioneer Register appended to these volumes. That register will also serve as an index through which may be found all that is recorded of any early Californian in this work.