Spring Term 1899
                   Saturday May 27th 1899
States of America and well disposed to the good order and hapiness
of the same
Sworn to and subscribed before me this }  H.G. Mason
27th day of May 1899                   }  Jas M. Graham
(Seal)        H.C. Denton
            Clerk Circuit Court

                   Oath of Allegiance
State of Florida }
Alachua County   } I Ernest W. Shaw do Solemnly swear that I will
support and defend the Constitution of the United States of
America and that I do absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure
all allegiance and f**lty to any Foreign Prince, Potentate state or
sovereignty whatever and particularly to Queen Victoria Queen
of Great Britain & Empress of India of whom I am a subject
                                      Ernest W. Shaw
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of May 1899
              (Seal)                 H.C. Denton
                                    Clerk Circuit Court
United States of America
            State of Florida County of Alachua   SS
Be it Remembered that on this 27th day of May in the year of our Lord
one thousand Eight Hundred and ninety nine Ernest W. Shaw
late of South Port England in the Kingdom of Great Britain at
present of Gainesville in the county and state aforesaid
appeared in the Circuit Court of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Florida
(the said Court having a common law Jurisdiction and a Clerk and 
seal and being a Court of Record) and applied to the said Court
to be admitted to become a Citizen of the United States of America
pursuant to the directions and acquisitions of the several acts
of congress in relation thereto and the said Ernest W. Shaw
having produced to the Court such declarations and renunciations
and taken such oaths as are by such acts required
Therefore it is ordered that the said Ernest W. Shaw be admitted
and he is accordingly admitted by said Court to be a Citizen of
the United States of America.
  Done and ordered at Gainesville this the 27th day of May AD 1899
                                W.A. Hocker  Judge
  In witness whereof I H.C. Denton Clerk of said Court have
hereunto signed my name officially and affixed the seal of
said Court this 27th day of May AD 1899
                                        H.C. Denton Clerk
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Whereupon it is ordered and adjudged by the Court that all
pleas, demurrers, motions causes and actions herein pending