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GRACE AND RUFUS PHELPS, TUTORSHIP, BOOK 6, PAGE 700

	I then swore said members and had them and each of them sign the oath at the beginning
hereof.  I then read to them the petition for this meeting and outlined to them the duties
thereof.  And said members then retired from my office to deliberate upon the matters and 
things in hand.  And after mature consultation and deliberation, said members returned into
my office and unanimously recommended:  That the 1/18th interest of each of these two minors
now owned by them in common with one T. M. Wade in end to the N 1/2 of Section 18 Twp. 22
N. R. 1 West, containing 320 acres more or less, be sold for the purpose of effecting a 
partition between said minors and their said co-proprietor; that same be sold for not less
than the inventoried value thereof, to wit:  $100.00 for the two-eighteenths (1/9th)
interest therein of these two minors.  Also that the two-eighteenths (19th) interest of
these two minors in end to the W 1/2 of SE 1/4 and S 1/4 of S 1/2 of NE 1/4 Sec. 20 Twp. 22 N.,
R. 1 West, containing 120 acres more or less, owned by them in common with their dative tutor 
Fred W. Phelps and Mrs. Frankie Wade Futch wife of R. Ed Futch, also be sold for the purpose
of effecting a partition between them and their said co-proprietors and that said two minors'
interest therein be sold for not less than $40.00 which is the inventoried value thereof of
their said interests.  The further recommend that said funds derived from such sale be placed 
by the dative tutor in a savings account of some reliable bank there to remain subject to the
orders of the court, or till said minors have attained to the age of majority or shall have
been emancipated by the court; that said sale be made at private sale or by private act for 
the purpose of making same as cheaply as possible; that said dative tutor, Fred W. Phelps,
be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to sign deed or deeds of conveyance to said
minors' interest in the above described property.
	Said members declared that they make these tecommendations for the reasons that the
said property owned by the said minors in common with their said co-proprietors is not
susceptible of an easy and convenient division in kind; that said minors can best and most
quickly get their interest therein by a sale thereof and a division of the proceeds; and
further, that one Thomas F. Terral has offered to them and their said co-proprietors a fair
and just consideration for the greater part of the above property and said members believe
and recommend that it is to their best interest that said offers be accepted.
	Said members each and all declared to me that they waived the three days notice
required by law.  And B. Levi Ramsey, under-tutor to said minors was present, but took no
part in these deliberations, save to sign this act approving the above recommendations.
	In testimony whereof I have caused said parties, together with the undersigned
witnesses to sign hereto in my presence on this the 6th day of January A. D. 1913.
Attest:						M. W. Wilson.
R. Ed Futch.					S. R. Terral.
J. B. Crow.					Geo. Bell.
						R. B. Wade.
						Will Wade.
I hereby approve the above recommendations:
		B. Levi Ramsey, Under-tutor,
				Emmett J. Lee, Dy. Clerk of Court & c.
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Book 7, Page 130

				ORDER

	Let the deliberations of the family meeting herein held before Emmett J. Lee Deputy
Clerk of Fourth District Court and Notary Public in and for Union Parish Louisian, be on the
28th day of October, 1913, the proces verbal of which accompanies the said the within
petition, be approved an homologated, and the same are hereby approved and homologated; and,
accordingly, the petition, Fred W. Phelps, the dative tutor of said minors, Grace and Rufus
Phelps, is hereby authorized to sell the undivided tw-fifty-fourths (2/54) interest in the 
property described in said proces verbal which belongs to said minors to John R. ammock, a
co-owner, of Union Parish, Louisiana, for them sum and price of seven hundred thirty three
and 33-1/310 dollars, cash, and the said tutor is further ordered to place the amount in 
some savings bank of the state to bear interest at the best rate.
	This done and signed at chambers the 30th day of October, A. D. 1913.
						J. B. Holstead,
						Judge.
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