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    "ocrText": "316 356\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\nSTATE OF CALIFORNIA.\nIn the Superior Court of the County of Los Angelés.\nIn the matter of, the application of\nCharles Couch\nCounty of Los Angeles-SS\nTo be admitted a citizen of the United States.\nWakemp\nof said Cour duly testifies and says that he is well acquajuted with the above named\nbeing swort.\nand has been so acquaiuted with him for five years, and that the\nsaid\nhas continually resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of\nthe United States of America for five years last past, and for one year last past within the State of California, and that-during\nsuch time he has behaved himself 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.\nW.K.mamp\nSubscribed and sworn to in open Court, this\n8th\n.day of Aug.\nA.D. 18/12\n1.H.Ward Clerk.\nBy\nSam Mails\nDeputy Clerk.\nState of California,\nSS.\nCounty of Tos Engeles.\nI\ndo solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United\nStates, and I do absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all,allegiance and fidelity to all and every foreign Prince,\nPotentaté, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to Victoria, QUIREN of Great\nCharlesbruche\nSubscribed and sworn to in open Court, this\n8th\nday of Aug. 189 2190 before me.\nlift. Ward Clerk.\nBy Sampants Deputy Clerk.\nCERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP.\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\nState of California,\nss.\nCOUNTY OF Los ANGELES,\n16e it 1Remembereo, That on the\n8th\nday stuge af\nin the year of our Lord\none thousand aipé hundred and 92\nsuch\nformerly of\nEngland\nat present of the State of California, aforesaid, appeared in\nthe Superior Court of Los Angeles County, the said Court being a Court of Record, having common law jurisdiction, and a\nClerk and Seal, and applied to the said Court to be admitted to become a CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF\nAMERICA, pursuant to the directions and regisitions of the Act of Congress of the United States of America, entitled\n\"An\nAct to establish an Uniform Rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the Acts heretofore passed on that Subject,\" and of the\nseveral Acts in relation thereto.\nAnd the said\nCharles Couch\nhaving thereupon produced to the Court such\nevidence, made such Declaration and Renunciation, and taken such Oaths as are by the said Act required, thereupon it was\nordesed by the said Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles, that the said\nMarles Counts\nbe admitted, and he was accordingly admitted by the said Court to be a CITIZEN\nOF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\nAn Testimony unbereot, the Seal of the said Court is hereunto affixed this\n0th\nday of Aug.\nRight\nin the year of our Lord one thousand nine\n[SEAL\nhundred and 92\nand the year of our Independence\none hundred and sevente eath\nPer Curiami:\nWard\nClerk.\nDamikut\nDeputy."
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