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DECLARATION OF INTENTION. STATE OF NEVADA, COUNTY OF EUREKA, BEFORE THE CLERK OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, APPEARED...[caption title]. Rare, blank "first papers" for the Nevada Sixth Judicial District. Prior to the Naturalization Act of 1906, an immigrant could be naturalized in any valid United States court, and many states and districts had their own forms. Generally, naturalization began with the "Declaration of Intention" to naturalize, which could be filed after living in the United States for two years. After another three years, the "second papers" could be filed as an official petition for citizenship. In this illustrated form, the applicant states his name (and it does say "his") and his intention to "renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to all and any foreign Prince, Potentate, State and Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to" whatever nation he hails from, (left blank). The remainder of the form is to be accomplished by the County Clerk, in this case Charles J.R. Buttlar. Buttlar was a Major in the Second Brigade of New Mexico, which was at this time stationed in Eureka, Nevada. The form was printed at the press of the Eureka Leader, a short-lived daily newspaper that ran from 1878 to 1881. In particular, the Eureka Daily Leader was known as the "Eureka Leader" for only one month, from August to September of 1880, and continued as the Eureka Evening Leader under new ownership from 1881 to 1885. OCLC and the National Archives record no copies of

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