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STATE Or VERMONT, ) I Samuel Swift, Clerk of 
Ammo* Coojtv ss: f the Counly Court fur the said 
Rouniy or Addison, do hereby certify that John M. Weeks of. 
Salisbury in said Counly has deposited in mv office Ins ori- 
|inal letters patent, under the seal of ihc United Slates, sign- 
ed by Andrew Jackson, President of ihe United States, coun- 
tersigned by John F orsylh, Secretary of State, and dated lha 
JOlhday ofJuno. in the year JS36, granting lo Ihe said John 
M. Weeks, his heirs Sic. the exclusive right of making, using 
and vending to others to use n certain improvement in ihe 
bee hive, for the term of fourteen years, from the said 30ih 
day of June 1836; to which is annexed a schedule specifying 
the soid improvement. 1 * 
In testimony nhoreol I have hereunto set my 
hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this *5ih 
day of January in tho vear of our Lord, one- 
thousand eight hundred and forty. 
SAMUEL SWIFT, Clerk. 
