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The State of Alabama
Shelby County
To E Porter Gauld Esqr
We having full faith in your
prudence and competency you are
hereby commissioned to call David
Meradith before you and him Examine
on oath tuching his Knowledge of
the hereinto attached Interrogatory;
&, +; Interrogations, and said testimony
when taken you will certify the
same to our court of Probate
to be held at the Probate Judges office
in Columbiance on the fourth
Tuseday of June Just Over your
properhand and certificate
herein fail not and make the
proper return Witness &c 14th
day of June AD 1854
J M McClanahan
Judge of Probate