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    "ocrText": "84\nJanuary 1845\n2.\nBE IT REMEMBEBEDS That on the Eleventh day of Fibruary\n3.\n18\nin the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty fine\nin the\nJohn me. bahill\nof Fermington\nin said County\nof Ha\nof Hartford, appeared in open Court, (the said Court being a Court of Record, having common Law juris-\ndiction\ndiction, and a Clerk and seal,) and applied to be admitted and*o become a citizen of the United States. And\ndohn me bahill\nthe sai\nthe said\nthen exhibited to the Court a certificate of the\nDeclaration of intention made by him before the Giberior bourt for Harford Count,\nDeclar\non\non 7 day of December A. 0.1842\nand reo\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congress entitled \" An Act to\nestablis\nestablish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the Acts heretofore passed on that subject.\" Ap-\nproved\nproved 14th of April, 1802, as follows:\n\"STATE OF CONNECTICUT,\n\"STAT\nCOUNTY OF HARTFORD,\nSS. HarFord December 7 the 1842\n\" Be IT REMEMBERED, That\nJohn me bahill of\nBe\n11 Farmington\nin said County of Hartford, but late of the United Kingdom of Great Britain\n\" and Ireland, appeared before the Superior Court for said County of Hartford, held at Hartford in\n\" and Ire\nby adjuriment\n\" said County, on the\n7.\nday of December\nin the year of our Lord\n\"raid Co\n1, one thousand eight hundred and forty two\n(the said Court being a Court of Record,\n% one tho\n\" having Common Law Jurisdiction, and a Clerk and seal,) and declared on oath in open Court, that it was\n\" having\n1 bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and\nbona fid\n\" fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to\nMictoria,\nfidelity\nQueen\nKing of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.\n\" In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Superior\n\" In tes\nCourt,\n\" this Seventh\nday of December\n\" this\nin the year of our\n', Lord one thousand eight hundred and fortytio\n\" Lord on\nThank geymour)\nClerk.\" of\nthe Superion-brutt\nIL\nand it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court,\nthat said John mebahill\nand it ap\nhas resided within the United States five years at least, and in the State of Connecticut one year it least, and\nhas resid\nthat during said five years he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the\nthat duri\nConstitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.\nConstitu\nAnd the said John me. bahill\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support\nAnd the\nthe Constitution of the United States, and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegi-\nthe Cons\nance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to\nVictoria, Rueno\nance and\nKing of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,\nof whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court, that John que bahill\nBie\nof whom\nUnited States.\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted to become a citizen of the\nUnited S"
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