A. L. Fairly, J. P., P. C.
Signed, F. J. Mixon.
| State of Mississippi, | } |
| Perry County. |
I, James Carpenter, Clerk of the Probate Court of said county, certify that A. L. Fairly, whose name is signed to the above affidavit, was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, and that full faith and credit are due all his official acts as such.
Given under my hand and seal of said court, this sixteenth day of April, 1859.
James Carpenter,
Clerk Probate Court, Perry Co., Miss.
| Ellisville, Jones County, | } |
| Mississippi. |
We, the undersigned citizens of said county and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Bentonville Taylor, and know him to be a man of no moral worth as a citizen, no character as a lawyer, nor school teacher, and a man to whose word we could not give any credence for truth and veracity.