Congressional Serial Set, Issue 3815U.S. Government Printing Office, 1899 Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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Page 14 - I hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit was read to the affiant in my presence before he signed his name thereto; that said affiant is to me personally known (or has been satisfactorily identified before me by ) , and that I verily believe him to be a credible person and the person he represents himself to be; and that this affidavit was subscribed and sworn to before me at , on this day of , 189-.
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