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 . 47. Be it further enacted, etc., That if any person, on oath or affirmation, in or before any court in the State, or officer authorized to administer oaths, shall, to procure a certificate of naturalization for himself or any other person, willfully depose, declare or affirm any matter to be fact, knowing the same to be false, or shall in like manner deny any matter to be fact, knowing the same to be true, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and any certificate of naturalization issued in pursuance of any such deposition or affirmation, shall be null and void; and it shall be the duty of the court issuing the same, upon proof being made before it that it was fraudulently obtained, to take immediate measures for recalling the same for cancellation; and any person who shall vote, or attempt to vote, on any paper so obtained, or who shall in any way aid in, connive at, or have any agency whatever in the issue, circulation or use of any fraudulent naturalization cirtificatecertificate [sic], shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall undergo an imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than two years, and pay a fine, not more than one thousand dollars, for every such offense, or either or both, at the discretion of the court.

. 48. Be it further enacted, etc., That at all general elections the names of all candidates to be voted for in the cities of New Orleans and Jefferson shall be written or printed on one ticket, or slip of paper, and the number of the ward and election precinct in which the ticket is to be voted, shall be printed or written on the outside fold thereof.

49. Be it further enacted, etc., That the supervisors of registration in the parishes of Orleans and Jefferson shall, during registration and at least within six days preceding any general election, furnish to the Board of Metropolitan Police Commissioners a copy of the lists of registered voters in each precinct in said parishes.

. 50. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Board of Metropolitan Police Commissioners shall forthwith proceed by means of the police to inquire into and report to said supervisers the names of all persons falsely, fraudulently or improperly registered; and to this end the Board of Metropolitan Police Commissioners shall divide each ward into convenient subdivisions or blocks, and shall assign to each subdivision one or more police officers, whom they shall direct and cause to compare the names of the actual residents of said subdivisions or blocks with the names of the registered voters thereof, and to report to them the names of all persons whom they shall find to be falsely, fraudulently or improperly registered, and the Board of Metropolitan Police Commissioners shall report the same in an alphabetical list, with the names and residences thereof as registered, to the supervisors of registration of said parishes of Orleans and Jefferson, respectively, who shall immediately make publication thereof in the official journal of the State, with notice to all such persons to appear forthwith at the office of the supervisor of registration of said parishes, respectively, and show cause why their names should not be erased from the registry list. If any such person shall appear and show to the satisfaction of the Supervisor of Registration that he has been unjustly reported as falsely, fraudulently or improperly registered, or show other sufficient cause why his name should remain on the registry list, his name shall not be erased; otherwise the supervisor of registration shall cause all Rh