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    "ocrText": "171\nnesuperior Court, holden at Litchfield, in State\nand for the County of Litchfield, in the of\nConnecticut, on the\n2°\nhundred and sixty\nTuesday of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight\nPRESENT-HON. Origen S. Seymour fredge\nthe it Remembered, That on the 12\"\nday of September\nin the\nof bornwall\nyear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty John. Downs\nin said County of Litchfield, being an alien and a free white person,\nappeared in open Court, (the said Court being a Court of Record, having Common Law Jurisdiction, and\na Clerk and Seal,) and applied to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States. And the said\nmade by him before H.D.Beeman to lark of the Superior bourt within\nJohn Downs then exhibited to the Court a Certificate of the declaration of intention\nfor said county\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congress entitled \"An Actito\nestablish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.\"\nApproved 14th of April, 1802, as follows:\n=\nSTATE OF CONNECTICUT,\nCOUNTY OF bitchfield }\nss.\nthe it That on the 17th\nday\nFLB eeman of September bleskarth Supinor Court, within A. and D. for\n1856, before the\nsaid County,\nJine\nhaving Common Law jurisdiction, with a Clerk and a Seal, per-\nL.S.\nsonally appeared, John bowns\nof Litchfield\nCounty, who was born in Limmick los. Ireland\nin said\naged about 28\nyears, and on oath did declare that\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 Victoria been\nof the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he is now a subject. In Testimony Where-\nof, I, Frederick Deman\nClerk of said Court, have hereunto set my\nhand, and Seal of the said Court, the day and year aforesaid. bibe sub lo bas bas basd\n\"trederick DBeeman\nClerk.\nwithin And it appearing to the satisfaction five of the Court, that said John Doward has\nresided\nthe United States years at least,\n10 ald\nbias\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.\nAnd the\nsaid John OF Dount\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support\nthe CONSTITUTION 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 Victoria deen\nof the United Kingdom of\nGreat Britain and Ireland, of whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court,\nthat become John a Citizen Downs of the\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted\nto UNITED STATES.\nsill\n10\nassiNo"
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