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    "ocrText": "78\nAta Sup Court, holden at Litchfield, in and for the County of Litchfield, in the State of\nConnecticut, on\nthe 4th Tuesday of I am 7 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight\nhundred and lifty sum\nhus\nPRESENT-HON David 6. Sumpered Judge\nBe it Remembered, That on the sixth\nday of February 11 in\nthe\nyear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred afifty learn mark with\nof Gosher\nin said County of Litehfield, being an alien and a free white person,\nappeared in open Court, (the said Court being a Court of Record, having Common Law Jurisdiétion, and\na Clerk and Seal,) and applied to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States. And the said\nWitch\nthen exhibited to the Court a Certificate of the declaration of intention\nmade by him before\nthe bluh of the County Cent\nin it for Decide County\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congress entitled \"An Actifo\nestablish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.\"\nApproved 14th of April, 1802, as follows:\nSTATE OF CONNECTICUT,\nCOUNTY OF ss.\nthe it Remembered, That on\nthe\n30th\nday\nof December\nA. D. 1854, before the\nbluh of the leumly Court, within and for said County,\nhaving Common Law jurisdiction, with a Clerk and a Seal, per-\nsonally appeared,\nL. S.\nmuch Welch\nof\nGosher to\nin said\nCounty, who was born in Ireland\naged about luruly rix years, and on oath did declare\nthat\nit was bona fide his intention to become a CITIZEN OF THE\nUNITED STATES, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince,\"Poten-\ntate, State and Sovereignty, whatever-and particularly to\nVictoria Seem\nof the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he is now a subject. In Testimony Where-\nof, I, Henry 03 Graves\nClerk of said Court, have hereunto set my\nhand, and Seal of the said Court, the day and year aforesaid. bins odi To has\nHenry B. Issues\nClerk.\nAnd it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that said Mileh of\nhas resided\nwithin the United States five years at least,\n11. mistivi\nand in the State of Connecticut one year at least; and that during said five years\nhe has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the\nUnited States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.\nlinw\nnog\nAnd the said Welch\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support\nthe CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce\nand abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and\nparticularly to Nictoria Queen\nof the United Kingdom of\nGreat Britain and Ireland, of whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considerede) by the Court\nthat much anter\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted\nto become a Citizen of the UNITED STATES."
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