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State of West Virginia.
Upshur County.  Recorder's Office August 29th 1867.

I, Isaiah M. Bennett, Recorder of Upshur County in the state of West Virginia; do hereby certify, that Jackman Cooper, whose name is signed to the writing hereto annexed bearing date on the 28th day of August 1867, is the Secretary of the Board of Education of Buckhannon Township, in County aforesaid duly elected and qualified and that the Contract purporting be to made in the annexed writing, was entered into and signed by the parties whose names are signed thereunto in my presence, and is a bonifide contract.

The testimony whereof I hereunto set am hand, and affix the seal of said Office, done at the Count House of Upshur County, West Virginia, this day and date first above written.

J.M.Bennet
Recorder
Ulsphur County.