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    "ocrText": "122\nSeptember Terms.11217\n2.\nBB IT That on the high\nday of October\nin the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Forty Sectn\nc Dohn Stannis\nof reantford\nin said County\nof Hartford, appeared in open Court, (the said Court being a Court of Record, having common Law juris-\nthe said bohu Stanning\ndiction, and a Clerk and seal,) and applied to be admitted and to become a citizen of the United States. And\nthen exhibited to the Court a certificate of the\nDeclaration of intention made by him before the county Court, within and for\nsaid County. on the fifteenth day of eugustits. 1815\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.\" Ap-\nproved 14th of April, 1802, as follows:\n\"STATE OF CONNECTICUT,\nCOUNTY OF HARTFORD,\nSS.\nBe IT REMEMBERED, That\nin said County of Hartford, but late of the United Kingdom of Great Britain\nand Ireland, appeared before the\nCourt for said County of Hartford, held at Hartford in\nsaid County, on the\nday of\nin the year of our Lord\none thousand eight hundred and\n(the said Court being a Court of Record,\nhaving Common Law Jurisdiction, and a Clerk and-seal,) and declared on oath in open Court, that it was\nbona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and\nfidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whateyer, and particularly to\nKing of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.\nIn testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said\nthis\nCourt,\nday of\nLord one thousand eight hundred and\nin the year of our\nClerk.\"\nand it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court,\nthat said bohn hannis\nhas resided within the United States five years at least, and in the State of Connecticut one it least, and\nConstitution that during said five years he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the year principles of the\nof the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.\nAnd the said bohn Mannis\nthe Constitution and of the United States, and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegi-\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support\nance Nictoria, fidelity to any Queen foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly\nto\nof whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court, that\nKing of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,\nbohn Itannis\nUnited States.\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted to become a citizen of the\nchanny Howard, clarks"
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