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Washington his x mark Smith 

Daniel Hunt Sec'y
Freedmans Mutual Aid Society

James his mark Tynes Sup't
Ladies benevolent Society

The State of Arkansas
County of Hempstead

I Simon T. Sanders Clerk of the Circuit Court for Hempstead County in the State of Arkansas, hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the persons who have signed their names to the foregoing petition and that they are all men of respectability and good standing, and citizens of said county.

In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand as such Clerk and affixed my Official seal at my office in the Town of Washington the 2d day of August A.D. 1867

S.T. Sanders Clerk

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image: 5 cent internal revenue stamp