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    "ocrText": "At a Superior Court, holden al Litchfigld, in and for the County of Litchfield, in the State of\n203\nConnecticut, on\nthe 2p Tuesday of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight\nhundred and sixty three\nPRESENT-HON. Charles of incloundy judge\nhan\nthe it Remembered, That on the\n15th\nday of September\nin the\nyear\nof banan\nofgour Lord one thousand eight hundred and sexty three George L ganser\nin said County of Litchfield, being an alien and a Iree 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 borm. L him ganser before the shaperior then exhibited bourt to the for Court the a Certificate County of the of declaration Sitchfield, of intention\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: & acts m addition tc. as follows.\nSTATE OF CONNECTICUT,\nCOUNTY OF Litchfield\nss.\nthe it Remembered, That on the\n11\"\nand\nmoled\nAGRE\n$11\nday\nSuperior\nof april\nA. D. 1 before the\nCourt, within and for said County,\nand\nJank\nhaving Common Law jurisdiction, with a Clerk and a Seal, per-\nL.S.\nof lannam\nsonally appeared, Georges gunser\nin said\nCounty, who was born in\naged about 42\nGermany\nyears, and off 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 to\nparticularly Maximilian II\nKing. of Bavaria\nof, I, Milliam Ransom\nof the United Kingdom of Creation and trelant, of whom he is now a subject. In Testimony Where-\nClerk of said Court, have hereunto set my\nhand, and Seal of the said Court, the day and year aforesaid.\nWilliam S. Ranson\nbims mili to lase bas\nClerk.\nwithin And it appearing United to the satisfaction five of the Court, that said Georgest ganner avil has adi\nresided\nthe States years at least,\navil\nbies\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.\nbma\nbetiali\nhoq\nthe STATES, and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce\nCONSTITUTION And the said George of THE UNITED ganser\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support\nand abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and\nparticularly to Maximilian II. King. of Bavaria ofthe\nUnited Kingdom of\nGreat Britain and Iroland, of whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court,\nto that become George a Citizen S. of the Ganser UNITED\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted\nSTATES.\nCSITIVU nill to of"
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