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    "ocrText": "24\nAla Superior Court, Litchfield, in and fur the County of Litchfield, in the State of Connecticut, the\nholden at on\nsecond Tuesday of april\nin the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Villylight\nPRESENT-HON. Lorrn hudy\nBe it Remembered, That on the fountanth day of april\nin the year\nof our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty Eight - Funnas Kelley\nof\nShavon\nin said County of Litchfield, being an alien and free white person, appeared in\nopen Court, (the said Court being a Court of Record, having Common Law Jurisdiction, and a Clerk and Seal,) and applied\nto be admitted to become a citizen of the United States. And the said Francis\nKelley\nlemmen Pleas of the City of new yuh march 21. 1853 /\nthen exhibited to the Court a Certificate of the Declaration of intention made by him before the General\nand required as the first condition according to the first séction of the Act of Congress entitled \"An Act to establish an\nuniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.\" Approved 14th of April, 1802;\nand the acts passed subsequently thereto, to wit :\n1855 Stule % New Yuch - In the bent Cemmin\nPlus for the City Lannly / New Fuh\nI Funnas Kelley clu dielance our Gruth that it\nis been fice my to became a Citisen of the\nunited Hules and to smormvc process all allegional\nfinility to any perceive Prince Potential Slate on\nwill particulinely to the Dear of the United\nKingdom of Gieat Briteric IILLund. of whom\nI am a sinject\nTurn\n11.11 21. day\nFunnas Kelly\nof march. 185's) Benjamin H.Javins bluk\nbluek, offer. Count of Communities\nbat\nfor the City +bunly of New Yerh\nthat the fellowing is a Im copy of original\nI eculity\ndiclaration\nmy offer - withelp when h have huntri\nof he maning of Thend in\nfulseubed my name and afficied the shul - said\nbunt the 21 day of manely 1855\nLITE\nBuy He Jane\nblute\nAnd it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that said\nthe United States five years at least\nKelly\nhas resided within\nand in the State of Connecticut one year at least, and that during said five years he\nhas behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well\ndisposed to the good order and happiness of the same.\nAnd the said\nKelly\nCONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support the\nand fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to\nvietence emer\nof the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Ireland, of whom he was before a\nsubject. It was therefore considered by the\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted to become Court, a Citizen that said of the UNITED Themes STATES. Henry\nClerk."
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