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The State of Mississippi
Hancock County I I Benjamin Sones Clerk of the Probate Court in and for said county & state do hereby certify that Charles A. Folsom whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavit is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, duly	commissioned and sworn; and that all	his	official acts	as	such
are entitled to	full faith and credit; and that the	said	Probate Court	in	a court
of record having general jurisdiction. Given under	my hand and seal
of office at Gainesville in	said	County of office	at
SEAL OF ST. OF MISS	Gainesville	in	said	County this 3rd day of October AD
1853.
B. Sones, Clk.