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IGLBZ 5233 thereof, and of the whole of such original record; that.said Court is a court of Record.,having a seal, which seal is hereto attached; that said Court _has no Clerk authorized to sign certifi- cates in his own name, and that I am the legal custodian of said Seal and of the Records of said Court, and that the foregoing attestation is in due form of 1,.w. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court, at Grand Island, this 14th day of February,1920 ( SEAL) J. H. Xullin County Judge. Filed for record this 16 day of February 1920, at 8 :30 o'clock A.M. Register of Deed -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-C-0-0-0-0-0- DECRFF ■ r IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA. In the matter of the sstu.te of ) Charles N.Steele, ) Deceased. ) Now, on this 14th day of February,1920, this cause came on to be heard upon the petition of Frederic T- Steele and Elizabeth L. Steele, heretofore filed herein, praying for & settlement of the estate of said deceased, a determination of his heirs act law, 1 and their degree of kinship, and the right of descent of his real estate said petitioners being represented by Horth & Ryan, their attorneys, and it appearing from the proof on file herein that due and legal notice by publication in the "Grand Island Independent ", a legal newspaper in said county, for three successive weeks as by 1"w and the orders of this Court requirdd, has been give to all creditors, heirs at law, and persons interested in said estate, of the filing of said pe- tition and the time and place for hearing thereon, which time was more than thirty days and less than sixty days after the filing thereof, and there being no objections thereto, said cause wCs submitted to the Court upon said petition and the evidence of petitioners in support thereof,and the Court being advised in the premises finds that the allegations of s"id petition are true, that the said Charles N.Steele died intestate at his home in the city and state of New York, and while i a resident thereof, on July 25,1909; that he was a widower at the time of his death and left no issue or descendants him surviving, and left as his only heir at law, his father,,'William N. Stee then a widower; that more than two years have elapsed since his death and no application has beer made in the state of Nebraska for the appointment of an administrator of his estate, nor petitior filed therefor, and no administration has been had on his estate* The Court further finds that said deceased died seized as the owner in fee of and an estate of inheritance in the northwest quarter of Section 36, in Township 9 North, Range 10 West, in Hal County, . Nebraska, , which real estate did, upon the death of said Charles N. Steele, pass and des- cend, by operation of lt.�.w, to the said William N- Steele, father of said desceased, by absolute title, he, the said William N. Steele, being the only heir at law of said deceased. The Court further finds that more than two years have passed since the death of the said Char- les 17-Steele; that he died intestate; that his funeral expenses and other debts have been fully paid, and that all other claims or debts of said estate, or of said deceased,i -f any exist, are forever barred and precluded, and that the costs of these proceedings have been paid by said pe- titioners, The Court further finds that the said William N. Steele bore the relation and degree of kin- ship of father to said deceased, and he afterwards, on or about August 9,1909, duly sold and con- veyed by good and sufficient deed, the above described premises to said Frederic T. Steele and Elizabeth L.Steele, petitioners herein, who are now the owners thereof, and as such owners are I qualified and proper persons to file said petition and prosecute this cause under the lax of the i I state of Nebraska,.