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Allegheny County } SS:
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<p corresp='TTP35082644P3' xml:id='OTP35082644P3'>Sworn &amp; Subscribed before me this <date when='1865-04-01'>1<hi rend='sup'>st</hi> day of April A. D 1865</date>
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U S District Judge
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