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 STATE OF NEW YOKE, ) 



v SS • 



Franklin, Franklin County. J 



S. W. Dodge, town clerk of the town of Franklin, being duly sworn, 

 says that on examination of the assessment-roll of said town, he finds 

 lots Nos. 221 and 222, township 10, O. M. tract, assessed in the non- 

 resident lands, from the year 1856 to 1870, and from the years of 1871 

 to 1877 inclusive, assessed to Lewis L. Smith. 



S. W. DODGE. 

 Subscribed and sworn to before me, } 



this 29th day of September, 1884. j 



George Tremble, 



Notary Public. 



Franklin county clerk's certificate to notary's- signature, etc., dated 

 October 1, 1884. 



STATE OF NEW YORK, 1 ss . . 

 Fbanklin County. J 



S. W. Dodge being duly sworn, says that he is the town clerk of 



the town of Franklin, in said county of Franklin. The lots Nos. 221 



and 222 of the Old Military tract, township No. 10, are situate within 



said town. That as such town clerk the deponent has the custody of 



the tax-rolls of said town. The deponent has examined the 



assessment-rolls of said town for all the years from 1858, to 



1870, both inclusive, and finds and avers the fact to be that said 



two lots are there assessed as non-resident lands during said years, 



and that deponent has also examined the assessment-rolls of said 



town for the years 1871 to 1877, both inclusive, and that safd two lots 



are both during and for said last mentioned years assessed as resident 



property, to Lewis L. Smith. 



S. W. DODGE, 



Town Clerk. 

 Subscribed and sworn to before me, ) 

 this 20th day of October, 1884. ) 



Geor&e Tremble, 



* Notary Public. 



STATE OF NEW YORK, ) gs . 

 Franklin County. ) 

 Lewis L. Smith, being duly sworn, says, that about the year 1869 

 he purchased for value, of E. L. Ross, Jr., and said Ross duly assigned 

 and delivered to deponent, two certain certificates of and from the 

 tax sale of 1866, held and made by the Comptroller of the State of 



