Chapter II. *to provide for changing of Names of Persons in the District of Columbia.*Dec. 20, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That Samuel Chase Barney, Samuel Chase Barney, Jr. may change his name
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CHAP. II.— An Act *to provide for changing of Names of Persons in the District of Columbia.*Dec. 20, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That Samuel Chase Barney, Samuel Chase Barney, Jr. may change his name.Jr., of the District of Columbia, be, and he is hereby, authorized to change his name to Samuel Chase De Krafft, and that this act shall take effect from December first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That any person being a resident Residents in the District of Columbia may have their names changed;of the District of Columbia, being desirous to have his or her name changed, may file a petition in the supreme court of the said District of Columbia, setting forth therein the reasons therefor, and also the name desired to be assumed; notice of the filing of such petition containing the mode of procedure.substance and prayer thereof shall be published for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper in general circulation published in said District, prior to the hearing of said petition.
The said supreme court, or the justice holding the civil term thereof, on proof of such notice, and upon such showing as may be deemed satisfactory, may change the name of such applicant according to the prayer of such petition. Approved, December 20, 1867.