State of Minnesota,

COUNTY OF DOUGLAS,

SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT--DOUGLAS COUNTY.

I, Ludvig Hanson do hereby upon oath, declare that I first arrived in the United States on or about the 16^th day of May, in the year A. D. 1865, and that I have, ever since that time, continued to reside in the United States, and that it is bona fide my intention to become

A Citizen of the United States,

and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity which I in anywise owe to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty, and particularly all allegiance which I owe to the King [of] Sweeden [sp] and Norway of whom I have heretofore been a subject.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 8^th day of December A. D. 1896.