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shall allow my friend the Rev. Thomas Hume to qualify as my Executor without requiring him to give any security. In testimony whereof I the said James H. Carney, have to this, my last will and testament, signed and subscribed my name this sixteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. 
Signed, acknowledged and published by the said James H. Carney, as and for his last will and testament in presence of each of us, at the same time, who at his request and in his presence subscribed our names as witnesses here to. 
L. H. Kingman 
W. S. Snead 
J. O. B. Crocker

At a Court held for Norfolk County the 15th day of May 1854. This Will was proved by the oath of L. H Kingman and J.O.B. Crocker two of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.  And on the motion of Thomas Hume the Executor therein named who made oath thereto and entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of forty four thousand dollars with condition according to law, which bond is ordered to be recorded without security agreeably to the directions of the will, the Court being satisfied that the personal Estate of the Testator is more than sufficient to pay his debts.  Certificate is granted the said Thomas Hume for obtaining a probate of the said will is due from.
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Arthur Emmerson CC,
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LeRoy G. Edwards CC

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