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of the gambling Institutions trying to be set up who have bribed 

 some of my friends & given me all the trouble they could. 



My uneasiness of mind on that score has been great & hurtful 

 to my health, finding I could find so few to act honestly to the 

 public along with me. If I should die before I can put in full 

 successful operation which requires one year, I leave it in the 

 hands of the few friends who partake my honest meaning, my 

 two joint trustees Peter Brutte & Christopher Marshall may admit 

 another equally honest & carry on the Institution under the printed 

 Rules & published regulations 



I aver that the whole of my Expences to form & mature this 

 Institution since 1825 has over Three hundred Dollars & my 

 expences from March to June abt $60, besides the printing. These 

 expences were to be paid me in shares & are yet to be. None but 

 those that can show their certificates signed by me are entitled 

 to them as paid, as the Letter p was put in the Books to some 

 Np not paid. 



The above is the last Codicil & Supplement to my will, in 

 witness whereof I have written the whole myself and signed & 

 sealed it, and mean to deposit it in the office of the Probate of 

 Wills of Philadelphia 



Philadelphia the i5th June 1835 



C. S. RAFINESQUE 



(Fourth Page) 



Additional Codicil I further add and solemnly declare that the 

 late award of $173 made in my favor by the Arbitrators in my 

 claim on Collins Estate is less than is justly due me, & if the 

 Administrator appeals this claim must be pursued to the utmost 

 and papers found to prove $306 and beyond I recommend com 

 promise in all cases to my Executors in cases of disputed claims 

 and to avoid litigation & expences. 



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