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78 United States of America, State of Connecticut, 55. At a Superior Court, holden in and for the County of New Haven, on the Reeman Tuesday of Septumbu A. D. 18 to BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 21 day of I amus Deforms of Nation in said year, in said county, appeared before said Court, the same being a Court of Record, with Common Law jurisdiction, a Clerk and a Seal, and made application to said Court, to become a citizen of the United States And upon examination first had, it being made to appear, and this Court having found to their satisfaction, that the said applicant is a person of lawful age, an alien, and a subject of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Ggeat Britain and Ireland, that he is now of the age of 23 years ; that he was born in Inlandy in said Kingdom ; that he has resided in the United States constantly for more than five years last past, and in said State of Connecticut for more than one year last past, and that he has during all said time behaved himself as a good citizen, has a good moral character, and is attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same. It also appearing to this Court, that said applicant arrived in the United States of America before attaining to the age of eighteen years, and that he has continued to reside therein thence hitherto-and he now here on oath declares that for three years last past, it has been and now is bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce all allegiance and fidelity forever to every Foreign Prince, Potentate, State and Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. And the said applicant now here in this Court, declares on oath, that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every Foreign Prince, Potentate, State and Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he is now a subject, and he also declares on oath, that he will support the Constitution of the United States of America. Wherefore, the said applicant is hereby, by this Court, admitted and declared to be a citizen of the United States of America.