James B. Brown

         State of Florida }
         Alachua County   }
Proof                       Personally appeared before me
         W.W. Avera, who being duly sworn says that he
         was present and saw the Testator James B. Brown
         sign and seal the foregoing instrument of writing as
         and for his Last Will and Testament and that he
         together with Horace Giddings and Geo R. Ellis signed
         the same as subscribing witnesses thereto in the presence of
         the said Testator and at his and in the presence of each
         other, and that the said James B. Brown did then and
         there publish and declare the same to be his true Last
         Will and Testament                      W.W. Avera
         Sworn to and subscribed before  }
         me this 18" day of January      }
         AD 1897           H.G. Mason    }
                            County Judge }

                                        {  In the probate Court of
                                        {  Alachua County State of Florida
         In Re
                 The contest of the Probate of the Will }
         of J.B. Brown, deceased.                       }
Order                                     This matter coming on this day to be
         heard, and it appearing that the contests of the probate of said Will
         have been dismissed and the said Will being produced and duly
         proved, it is adjudged that the same be admitted to Probate
         which is accordingly done, And it further appearing that H.F.
         Dutton, who was appointed in and by said Will the Executor
         thereof, is unwilling to qualify as such Executor, and that the said
         H.F. Dutton and Mrs Ella D. Brown the widow of the said J.B. Brown 
         and Mrs Belle S. Stark the daughter of the said J.B. Brown have re-
         quested in writing, the Court to appoint G.W. Hyde the present tempo-
         rary Administrator of said Estate as the Administrator thereof with the
                               adjudged and
         Will annexed. It is further^ordered that G.W. Hyde be and he is hereby
         appointed the Administrator with the Will annexed, of said Estate and
         as such Administrator, he shall take charge possession of the assets
         real and personal of said Estate and administer the same ac-
         cording to law
                      Done and ordered this 18" day of January AD
               1897 at Gainesville, County aforesaid
                                        H.G. Mason    County Judge


[ Written in left margin: ]
(Letters Testamentary Recorded in Book
Administrators Records)