CERTIFICATE
OF
NATURALIZATION.
STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF HANCOCK, SS,
(??Bfeas,??) before the honorable (Joseph Sibley) .
At a Circuit Court at the Court house in Carthage, in the County of Hancock and State of Illinois, on (the Fifteenth Day of March) in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty (Sixty) .
Present, the Honorable (Joseph Sibley) Judge (of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit) .
     Be it Remembered, that on this (Fifteenth) day of (March) A. D. 1860, an order is entered by the Circuit Court within and for said county in the words and figures following, to=wit: (William Kress) an alien born free white person, now comes and applies to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States; and hereupon the applicant proves, to the satisfaction of the Court, that he has resided within the United States at least five years, and within the State of Illinois at least one year immediately preceding this application===that during said time he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles contained in the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order, well being, and happiness of the same===that two years and upwards have' elapsed since the said applicant declared his intention to become a naturalized citizen of the United States, in conformity with the several acts of Congress on that subject, and took the oath prescribed by law preparatory to such admission; And he now declaring, here in open Court upon oath, that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every Foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatsoever, and particularly to (The Duke of Hesse Cassell) whereof he heretofore a subject.
     It is therefore Ordered by the Court, That the said (William Kress) be admitted to all the Rights, Privileges, and Immunities of a Citizen of the United States of America, and that the same be certified accordingly.

NOTE: (type words that were written in)