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               = Daniel B. Fitts =

        H. Koehne, Jr of said Newport, or some other suitable person:
        is presented to this Court, and it appearing that said petition
        was filed in the Office of the Clerk of this Court on the 2nd
        day of May, AD 1902 and that the Clerk, on the application
        of said Petitioner has given notice in the Newport Dailery
        News for fourteen days, once a week at least and such
        made of Notice on said Petition being satisfactory, and
        further notice on said petition being deemed unnecessary
        said instrument is now read, and James F. Marden, one
        of the subscribing witnesses is present, and being sworn tes-
        tifies that he was present together with Thomas J. Smith
        the other witness to said Will who is now dead, and saw
        Daniel B. Fitts sign said instrument and heard him
        publish and declare the same to be his Last Will and
        Testament, and that they at the same time at the re-
        quest of the said Daniel B. Fitts, and in his presence and
        in the presence of each other, subscribed their names as
        witnesses thereto: and that said Daniel B. Fitts was then
        of the sane mind and more than twenty one years of age
           And no person appearing to object, and the death of
        said Daniel B. Fitts being of record: it is thereupon ord-
        ered, adjudged and decreed that said instrument is
        proved to be the Last Will and Testament of said Dan-
        iel B. Fitts, and as such is approved, allowed and ordered
        to be recorded, and that Letters of Administration with
        the Will annexed, on the estate of said Daniel B. Fitts
        be granted to said Charles H. Koehne Jr Henry C.
        Stevens, who is named therein as Executor thereof,
        having in writing declined said trust. And the said
        Charles H. Koehne, Jr is ordered and required before en-
        tering upon said trust to give bond in the sum of
        One Thousand Dollars, with Samuel R. Honey and
        Charles H. Koehne, both of said Newport as sureties
        in the form prescribed by law, On the petition of said
        Charles H. Koehne Jr in writing, Jeremiah P. Mahoney
        Charles W. Crandall and Clarance J. Greason all of
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        said Newport are appointed to make an inventory^and
Fee 300 appraisement of all the goods, chattels, rights and credits
        which were of said Daniel B. Fitts, And is further ordered
        that said Charles H. Koehne, Jr give notice of his appoint-
        ment with the Will annexed in the Newport Dailey News once a week
        for three successive weeks            Duncan A. Hazzard
        Attest                                      Probate Clerk
Transcribed by Karen Kirkman 10 June 2017
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