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I authorize my Wife to sign the above
3. Susa.
Signed and aoknowledL;ed before me the undersigned authority on thia the Twenty fifth day of Uay A.D. 1876.
W.B.Taylor Justioe Peao* 4th Ward De Soto Parish ?,*• and oame and appeared ^ra . ^*lla J.Ruas wife of aaid 3. Buts, who, being by me examined aeperate and apart frcm her taiA ffuaband, deolurea that She signed, sekled pnd delivered tht same as her voluntary acu, end did &o freely, without any feare threat or oompulaion on the part of her said husband. Uay 26th, 1876.
W. B. Taylor Juitioe Pepoe 4th Ward Desoto