Spring Term 1899
                             Saturday May 27th 1899
cost of this proceeding and taxed by the Clerk of this Court as such costs,
and that Execution do issue therefor as on other Judgments at law and shall
have the same force and effect as other executions
Done and ordered in open Court this 27 of May 1899
                                W.A. Hocker
                                     Judge

                   In Circuit Court 5th Judicial Circuit Alachua County
                                Florida
In Re - Petition of Ernest W. Shaw
          To the Hon W.A. Hocker
                       Judge of said Court
                       Your petitioner Ernest W. Shaw now
a resident of Gainesville Florida would very respectfully show unto
your Honor that he is a citizen or subject of Queen Victoria the Queen
of Great Britain and Empress of India formerly of South port England
That your Petitioner has actually resided in the United States for more
than five years, That on the 24th day of March AD 1896 he did file in the office
of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Alachua County Florida his
Declaration under oath of his intention to become a Citizen of the
United States as is required by law as will more fully appear
by reference to certified copy of such Declaration attached as
part of this application
That your petitioner has for more than five years last past
been a resident of Alachua County Florida and That it is bona fide
his intention to become a citizen of the United States of America
wherefore he humbly prays your Honor to administer to him the
proper oath in such cases made and provided and that he may be
naturalized and admitted as a citizen and subject of the United States
of America with all the immunities rights and privileges guaranteed to
other citizens of the United States of America by the laws thereof
and he will ever pray and c
         May 27th 1899            Ernest W. Shaw

        Affidavit and Proof of Character
State of Florida }
Alachua County   } H.G. Mason and Jas M. Graham being each
duly sworn doth depose and say each for himself that he
is a citizen of the United States of America; that he is
well acquainted with Ernest W. Shaw and that the said Ernest
W. Shaw has resided within the Jurisdiction of the United States
for five years last past, and within the State of Florida for
the past year and more, and that during the same period he
has behaved himself as a man of good moral character
attached to the principles of the constitution of the United