,To THE PUBLIC beg leave to call the
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rINO THE PUBLIC beg leave 10 call the
IL attention Of the public to the following certIh-
cate, as my reason, and only reason for signing my
name (from and after the date of said eerti6cate)
John, as my true and only Christian name, instead
OF the one | formerly bore, to wit Bradley Samuel
Adams, which never became, by eertf feats, and in
truth my Christian name.


Certificate.


81 do hereby certify that the bearer of this certif-
cate, Mr.. Lowe, formerly called Bradley s. A. Lo-
we, was by me baptized (somewhere within the
year 1921 or 1922 by the name John, as bis Chris
tian name, and that therefore, John, and John alone
is his true and only Christian name, and that he is,
in consequence thereof, under an obligation TO
said name, to wit, John, and none other his true
and only Christian name, in signing all instruments
of writing whatever, well as private letters, &c;
and, moreover, all persons are, by this certificate,
bound to recognise him under said name, John as
his true and only Christian name.


Given from under my hand, this sixth day Of
February, at the city of Washington in the year Of
our Lord IS46, eighteen hundred and forty.six.


OWN. MATTHEW'S,
Rector Of st. Patrick's Church, Washington city"
beg leave to remark that | arm under most posi-
tive obligation, both relgiosly and in truth, to sign
myself, forsper, after the date of the above certf
cate as said certificate directs, for the reason that
il il my and oniy Christian name, by said csr-
feate declared and that therefore, cannot sign any
longer the name | have borne from my childhood
which was nothing else than substitute for Chris
tan name, until that some other one should have
been confirmed by impulse Of the Holy Sacrament
of Baptism; and wherefore j, requires, most mani
testify, no legislative action Of men to confirm said
state Of things, since Christian name is the erchr
sire gin Of God, by impulse Of the Holy Sacrameht
Of Baptism, through the agency Of His Divine Ma
ioqyG minister; and since the constitution and laws
Of the United States government grants and secures
10 every American citizen free and unlimited erer
rise Of his religious privileges. This give, believing
be duy, TO the public.


March 27-3td JOHN LOWE.