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CERTIFICATE OF MAGISTRACY -- Printed by F. FULTON & Co., 148 Lake Street.
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
COOK COUNTY. } SS.
ORGANIZED 1849
ILLINOIS
I, LAURIN P. HILLIARD, Clerk of the County Court of said County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that T B Brown Esq., whose name is subscribed to the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument in writing, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in said County, duly commissioned, sworn and acting as such, and authorized to take the same; and further, that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe that the signature to the said proof or acknowledgment is genuine; and further, that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowleged according to the laws of the State of Illinois.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at the City of Chicago, in said County, this th day of December, A. D. 1862.
L. P. Hilliard Clerk.