Wills of Stoddard Co. MO -Official Bond of A.D. Wilcox - Book C pg. 184-185 ***************************************************************** File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives Compiled and submitted by ©1999,2000, Connie Perkins ------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Record Book of Wills in the County of Stoddard, Missouri Book C pg. 184-185 Official Bond of A.D. Wilcox Public Administrator of Stoddard County, Missouri for the Term commencing January 1st 1901 Know all men by presents that we A.D. Wilcox as principal and the Fidelity & Deposit company of Maryland as securities are held and firmly bound unto the State of Missouri in the sum of Ten Thousand dollars, for the payment of which we bind ourselves our heirs, executors administrators, severally and jointly by these presents. The condition of the above bond is such that whereas the said A.D. Wilcox was on the 6th day of November 1900 duly elected to the office of Public Administrator of the county of Stoddard in the State of Missouri and has been duly commissioned now therefore if the said A.D. Wilcox shall A.D. Wilcox faithfully discharge the duties of said office then this obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full force and effect. Witness our hands A.D. Wilcox Fidelity & Deposit Company of Md by Edwin Mayfield President attest: Harry M.... Secretary pg. 185 State of Maryland City of Baltimore On this 14th day of December A.D. 1900, before the subscriber a Notary Public of the State of Maryland, in and for the city of Baltimore duly commissioned and qualified came Edwin Mayfield President and Harry Miodemus asst. Secretary, secretary of the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland to me personally known to be the individuals and officers described in and who executed the preceding instrument and they each acknowledged the execution of the same and being by me duly sworn severally and each for himself deposeth and saith that they are the said officers of the company aforesaid and that the seal affixed to the preceding instrument is the corporate seal of said company and that the said corporate seal and their signatures as such officers were duly affixed and subscribed to the said instrument by the authority and direction of the said corporation. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at the city of Baltimore the day and year first above written. Fred S. Axtell Notary Public My commission expires May 1902.