Letter

Henry O’mahoney to J. E. Ewell , Deputy Clerk . [Stamp.] Whereupon it is ordered by the said court that the said applicant be admitted to all the rights and privileges of a citizen of the United States. State of New York , Erie County , } ss: I, Charles R. Durkee, clerk of said county and of the courts thereof, certify that the above is a true copy of the original proceedings as recorded in the records of the courts of said county; and further, that I have compared the same with the original, and that it is a true transcript of the whole thereof. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said county and of the court thereof this 25th day of February, A. D. 1880 . [ l. s. ] J. E. EWELL, Dp. Clerk, February 25, 1880

[Appendix to Inclosure 21.]

Certificate of naturalization of Henry O’Mahoney.

State of New York, Erie County:

——— Court.

Present, Hon. W. W. Hammond.

—— —— } Justices of sessions.
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Personally appeared in open court Henry O’Mahoney, late of Ireland, and made application upon his petition to be admitted a citizen of the United States of America; and it appearing to the satisfaction of this court that he, the said applicant, is of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, and that he did, on the 19th day of October, 1864, enlist as a soldier in the Navy of the U. S., on board of the U. S. S. Sybil, in the service of the United States of America, for the term of two years;

And it also further appearing by competent proof that on the 20th day of August, 1885, the said applicant was honorably discharged from the service of the United States; and this court being satisfied by the oaths of James Moylan and John Furck, well known by this court to be citizens of the United States, that the said applicant has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for one year and upwards previous to his application as aforesaid;

And it further appearing to the satisfaction of this court that during that time the said applicant has behaved as a man of good moral character, and attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States of America, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same; which said proof being satisfactory evidence to this court of the said fact, they permitted the said applicant to take and subscribe the following oath, viz:

I, Henry O’Mahoney, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America, and that I do absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatsoever, particularly to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, to whom I now owe allegiance.

HENRY O’MAHONEY.

J. E. Ewell, Deputy Clerk.

[Stamp.]

Whereupon it is ordered by the said court that the said applicant be admitted to all the rights and privileges of a citizen of the United States.

State of New York, Erie County, }
ss:

I, Charles R. Durkee, clerk of said county and of the courts thereof, certify that the above is a true copy of the original proceedings as recorded in the records of the courts of said county; and further, that I have compared the same with the original, and that it is a true transcript of the whole thereof.

[l. s.]

J. E. EWELL,
Dp. Clerk.
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