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    "ocrText": "At a Eupenion Litchfield, for the County of Litchfield, in the\n419\nCourt, holden at in and State of\nConnecticut, on the\nIt\nhundred and seventy two\nTuesday of January\nin the year of our Lord one thousand eight\nPRESENT-HON Ongen S. Seymour\nJudge\nthe it Remembered, That on the 16\nday of march\nin the\nof Hindeuter\nyear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy urv. John mers\n109V\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\nJohn her\nthen exhibited to the Court a Certificate of the declaration of intention\nmade by him before the blek of the Superior beautfor Faid beuety\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congress entitled \"An Act to\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 deterfuld\n}\nss.\nthe it Bemembered, That on the 24\nof March\nday\nber\nA. D. 1869, before the\nbias nol\nblekkop the See penor\nCourt, within and for said County,\nJane\nhaving Common Law jurisdiction, with a Clerk and a Seal, per-\nL.S.\nsonally appeared, John MErz\nof Ninehute\nin said\nCounty, who was born in Geruary\naged about 25\nyears, and oh 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 the\nKing of\nthe United Kingdom, et Cleant Britain and Ireland, of whom he is now a subject. In Testimony Where-\nof, I, Hilliam do Ranson\nClerk of said Court, have hereunto set my\nhand, and Seal of the said Court, the day and year aforesaid. sill bies sill to less\nHillions t.Kauron\nClerk.\nAnd\nwithin the United States five years at least,\nit appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that said John mers of batinO guined\nhas resided\nadi\nmidtiw\nativali and 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. How bes\n,\nbelinO\n100 And the said John men\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 the Kung Nurtumbing\nof the United Kingdom-of\nGreat-Britain and Iroland, of whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court,\nthat token mer\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted\nto become a Citizen of the UNITED STATES.\nASTATA silt 10 nositio of"
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