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vote, do so understandingly,- there several hundred Mexicans in the Counties of Nueces, and Duval, that are not naturalized, altho' many of them have been in the state several years, they are not entitled vote unless they were residing in the State (12) twelve month after the treaty of Hidalgo was signed, in 1848.-

Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servt
John Dix 
Sub. Asst. Com'r B.R.F. &c