Fall Term A.D. 1889
    Tuesday December 17th 1889
The Court met this day His Honor
J.J. Finley Judge presiding

Whereupon the Grand Jury came into open
Court and rendered No Bill in the case
of
  The State of Florida }
            vs         }  Larceny of a Domestic
  Daniel Spears        }  Animal -

State of Florida }
County of Clay   } Be it remembered that on this
Seventeenth day of January in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighty four
personally came John Danson an Alien and
made this Declaration of his Intention to become
a Citizen of the United States as follows to wit: -
I John Danson an Alien a Native of England
and a Subject of Queen Victoria aged Twenty Seven
years being duly sworn say that I do hereby
declare that I am now a resident of the State of
Florida; that I have resided in the United States
for the last five months and that it is my bonafide
intention to become a Citizen of the United States
of America and to renounce forever all allegiance
and fidelity to any and every Foreign Prince Potentate
State or Sovereignty whatever and particularly to the
Queen of England of whom I am now a subject
Subscribed and Sworn           John Danson
to before me the day
and year above written
         Isaac T. Weston
 ( Circuit  )    Clerk
 (  (Seal)  )
 ( Court    )
State of Florida }
County of Clay   } I Isaac T. Weston Clerk of
the Circuit Court of the State of Florida in and
for the County aforesaid, do hereby Certify that the
foregoing is a true and Correct Copy of the
original Declaration of Intentions by the above
named John Danson to become a Citizen of the
United States of America as appears on the files
in my office - In witness Whereof I have