Gillum Baley, Judge to Office of the clerk of the county court, county of Fresno, State of California, ss: I, A. M. Clark, clerk of the county court, Fresno County, State of California, said court being a court of record, having common-law jurisdiction and a clerk and seal, do certify that the above is a true copy of the act of naturalization of Anton Joseph Maassen, as the same appears upon the records of said court now in my office in Fresno, in said county. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 31st day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and in the year of our Independence the 102d . [ county seal of fresno. ] A. M. CLARK, Clerk. By C. L. WAINWEIGHT, Deputy Clerk, May 31, 1879

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certificate of citizenship.

No.—.

In the county court of Fresno County, of the State of California.

• Present, Hon. Gillum Baley, judge.

In the matter of the application of Anton Joseph Maassen, an alien, to become a citizen of the United States of America.

In open court, March term, A. D. 1874, this 2d day of March, A. D. 1874, as yet of said term.

It appearing to the satisfaction of this court, by the oaths of Charley Blackburn and J. S. French, citizens of the United States of America, witnesses for that purpose, first duly sworn and examined, that Anton Joseph Maassen, a native of the Kingdom of Prussia, has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United State five years at least last past, and within the State of California for one year at least last past; and that, during all of said time, he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same; and it also appearing to the court by competent evidence that the said applicant has heretofore, and more than two years since, and in due form of law, declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States; and having now here, before this court, taken an oath that he will support the Constitution of the United States of America; and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever, and particularly to the King of Prussia.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the said Anton Joseph Maassen be, and he is hereby, admitted and declared to be a citizen of the United States of America.