WILL AND DECREE RECORD
<br />THE AUGUSTINE CO. 18600.12.86
<br />hereby certify that on the 2nd day of July 1934,the instrument purporting to be the last will and
<br />testament of Richard P.Booth,deceased,was filed for probate in this Court.That on the 26th day of
<br />July 1934,sai.d instrument to which this certificate is attached was duly proved,probated and allow-
<br />ed as the last will and testament of the real and personal estate of said Richard P.Booth,c?eceased '.
<br />and the same was ordered to be recorded in the records of the Court aforesaid.
<br />IN 14.ITNESS 'V'91HEHREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court this 26th
<br />day of July 1934. Paul N.Kirk
<br />(SEAL) County Judge
<br />IN THE COUsITY COJaT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA
<br />IN THE MAT LlER OF '_THE ESTATE OF )
<br />FINAL DECREE
<br />RICHARD P.BOOTH,deceased )
<br />STATE OF NEBRASKA )
<br />SS At a session of the County Court held in and for said County of Hall
<br />COUNTY OF HALL )
<br />this 5th day of.January,1938, Present Paul N.Kirk,County Judge.
<br />BE IT REMEMBERED,that on the 10th day of Decernber,1937,Arthur C.Ma.yer,as executor of the estate
<br />of Richard P.Booth,deceased filed in this court his final account as such executor and a petition
<br />praying that said account be allowed;for a decree of heirship,an order of distribution,a final
<br />settlement thereon and discharge.
<br />For these purposes the 5th day of January,1939,at 10 o'clock A.M.in the County Court Room in said
<br />County,was assigned as the time and place for hearing said petition,examining and allowing said
<br />account;and it was ordered that notice of the pendency of said petition be given to all persons
<br />interested in said estate by publishing a notice of said order in the Grand Island Independent,
<br />a legal newspaper printed in said county for three weeks prior to said day of hearing;and it
<br />appears by proof on file that said notice was given as ordered by Court and upon examination of
<br />the record-and the evidence in this matter and being duly advised in the premises,the Court finds
<br />as follows;
<br />1.That Richard P.Booth departed this life on the 24th day of June,1934,in Hall County,Nebraska,
<br />testate,and at the time of his death he was a resident of Hall County,Nebraska.
<br />$.That on the 2nd day of July,1934,Arthur C.Mayer filed a written instrument purporting to be the
<br />last will and testament of said Richard P.Booth and his petition praying for the allowance of said
<br />instrument as and for the last will and testament of said Richard P.Booth,deceased;and on the 2nd
<br />day of July,1934,an order of this Court was made therein assigning the 26th day of July,1934,at
<br />10 o'clock A.M.in the County Court Room in said County as the time and place for hearing said petit -
<br />ion,and order ing that notice be given to all persons interested in said matter by publishing a
<br />copy of said order in the Grand Island Independent,a legal newspaper printed in said County for
<br />three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing and it appears by proof on file that notice of
<br />said order was given as ordered by this Court.
<br />3.The Court further finds that a hearing was had on said petition in accordance with said notice
<br />and said written instrument was duly allowed by this Court as and for the last will and testament
<br />of said Richard P.Booth,deceased,and that Arthur C.Mayer,nominated therein as executor of said
<br />last will and testament,was duly appointed executor in this estate upon his giving bond in the
<br />sum of $500.00 as ordered by this Court;the Court further finds that deceased at the time of his
<br />death,was a resident of Hall County,Nebraska;that said executor filed a good and sufficient bond
<br />herein on the 25th day of July,1934,and thereupon qualified as executor herei.n,and on the 26th day
<br />of July,1934,Letters Testarrientry -were issued herein by this Court to said Arthur C.Mayer.
<br />4. That on the 26th day of July,1934,an order of this Court was made allowing creditors three months
<br />from and after the 23rd day of August,1934,in which to file their claims against this estate and
<br />further ordering a notice of the same be published in the Grand Island Herald,a legal newspaper
<br />published and circulating in Hall County,Nebraska,f or three successive weeks prior to the 23rd day
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