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WEST SHORE RAILROAD COMPANY 
 
 TO THE 
 
 NEW YORK CENTRAL AND HUDSON RIVER 
 RAILROAD COMPANY. 
 
 LEASE. 
 
 DECEMBER 5TH, 1885, 
 
made this fifth day of December, A.B. 
 1885, between THE WEST SHORE RAILROAD COMPANY, 
 hereinafter called the first party, and THE NEW YORK 
 CENTRAL AND HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY, herein- 
 after called the second party, for the use of the railroad 
 of the first party. 
 
 WHEREAS, pursuant to a plan of agreement set forth in the 
 certificate of incorporation of the first party, filed in the office 
 of the Secretary of State of New York, to which reference is 
 hereby made, the first party, under a sale in foreclosure pro- 
 ceedings, has become the owner of the herein-described prop- 
 erty, railroad and franchises ; and 
 
 WHEREAS, it has executed a mortgage to secure the pay- 
 ment of bonds to the amount of fifty millions of dollars and 
 has issued its stock pursuant to the said plan or agreement of 
 organization ; and 
 
 WHEREAS, the second party has agreed to pay the principal 
 and interest of the said bonds and mortgage as they become 
 due ; 
 
 Now, THEREFORE, this contract WITNESSETH, that the said 
 parties hereto, in consideration of the premises and of the 
 several covenants and agreements hereinafter contained, to be 
 kept and performed for the benefit of each respectively, do 
 hereby mutually covenant, contract, promise and agree to and 
 with each other as follows : 
 
 First. The first party hereby demises and leases unto the 
 second party, its successors and assigns, the said railroad of 
 the party of the first part, to wit : 
 
 All and singular the main line of railroad of said West 
 Shore Railroad Company, extending from Weehawken, in 
 Hudson County, New Jersey, opposite the City of New 
 York, through the counties of Hudson and Bergen in said 
 State, to the division line between the States of New Jersey 
 and New York, at or near Tappantown, in the County of 
 Rockland, in the State of New York, and thence, in the 
 State of New York, along or near the west shore of the 
 Hudson River, via Haverstraw, West Point, Newburg, 
 Kingston, Catskill, Athens and Coxsackie, to or near 
 
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Schenectady, and thence, along or near the south shore of 
 the Mohawk River, to Utica, and thence, via Syracuse, to 
 Buffalo, as said main line is or may hereafter be located and 
 constructed ; 
 
 Also all and singular the branch line of railroad of said 
 Railroad Company, extending from a point on said main 
 line at Coeymans Junction, in the State of New York, to 
 the City of Albany, in said State, as said branch line is or 
 may hereafter be located and constructed, together with the 
 right of said Railroad Company to construct or complete a 
 loop line or branch from said City of Albany to any other 
 point on said main line ; also the branch to Athens, and 
 the Guilderland Branch ; 
 
 Also the right of said Railroad Company to construct a 
 loop line or branches from points on said main line to the 
 City of Rochester, in the State of New York ; 
 
 Also all lands, tenements and hereditaments, lands under 
 water and pre-emption rights thereto, water rights, rights 
 of way and easements, now held or hereafter acquired by 
 said Railroad Company for the purposes of said railroad 
 and branches or any of them, and for the purposes of 
 depots, stations, terminals or ferries in connection with said 
 railroad and branches or any of them ; 
 
 Also all letters patent, grants of land and of land under 
 water and of water rights, and all leaseholds, leases, terms 
 and parts of terms, rights under leases and under contracts, 
 covenants and agreements, and all rights of trackage and 
 terminal and ferry rights, privileges and franchises, and 
 all licenses, permits and privileges of transit granted by 
 the United States of America or by the State of New York 
 or the State of New Jersey, or by any governmental or 
 municipal authority, and all other rights, general and 
 special, now held or hereafter acquired by said Railroad 
 Company for the purposes of said railroad and branches, 
 terminals and ferries or any of them ; 
 
 Also all railways, ways, tracks, sidings, turnouts, bridges, 
 viaducts, culverts and fences, wharves, docks and piers, 
 depots, station-houses, ferry-houses, freight-houses, ware- 
 
houses and elevators, round-houses, car-houses, storehouses, 
 turn-tables, water-tanks, machine shops and repair-shops, 
 and other buildings, structures, erections, fixtures, furniture 
 and improvements of every kind, and all locomotives, en- 
 gines, cars, and other rolling stock and railway equipment, 
 and all ferry boats, steamboats, tugboats, floats, barges and 
 other floating equipment, and all rails, ties, machinery, 
 tools, implements fuel and materials, and all contracts 
 and agreements for the purchase or lease of rolling stock, 
 machinery, tools and equipment, and all other property, 
 real, personal or mixed, now held or hereafter acquired by 
 said Railroad Company for or in connection with the con- 
 struction, maintenance or operation, reparation or replace- 
 ment of said railroad and branches or any of them, or of 
 said terminals, ferries or other properties, or as necessary 
 or convenient for the uses or purposes thereof ; 
 
 Also all rights, powers, privileges and franchises con- 
 nected with or relating to said railroad and branches, ter- 
 minals and ferries, or any of them, including the right to 
 operate said railroad and branches, terminals and ferries ; 
 and all corporate franchises, rights, powers and privileges 
 now held or hereafter acquired by said Railroad Company. 
 
 Also every other right, title, interest, property and thing 
 which is necessary or convenient for the occupation, use 
 and enjoyment of all or any of said railroads, terminals, 
 ferries, leaseholds, and other properties, rights, privileges 
 and franchises, or any part thereof, whether the same be 
 now held or shall hereafter be acquired by the said Rail- 
 road Company, saving, excepting and reserving, however, 
 from the operation of this contract, the branch railroad 
 running from the junction with the railroad of the New 
 York, Ontario and Western Railway Company at Middle- 
 town, in the County of Orange, arid State of New York, 
 to the point of junction with the main line of railroad of 
 the said West Shore Railroad Company in the Town of 
 Cornwall in said county. 
 
 And also all rights, privileges and franchises now held or 
 which may hereafter be acquired by the party of the first 
 part. 
 
To HAVE AND TO HOLD the said demised railroad premises, 
 equipments and appliances, rights, privileges and franchises, 
 being all the property now held by the first party, unto the 
 second party, its successors and assigns, from the date of 
 these presents for and during the full term and period of four 
 hundred and seventy -live years from January first, 1886, with 
 the privilege of a further term of five hundred years. 
 
 PROVIDED always, and it is hereby expressly understood 
 and agreed that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to 
 aifect in any manner the right of corporate existence of the 
 first party, or such powers and franchises of which the exer- 
 cise may from time to time be necessary to protect the interest 
 of the stockholders and creditors thereof according to the true 
 intent and meaning of these presents. 
 
 And the second party agrees to pay as rent therefor the full 
 amount of interest at four per cent, per annum as it matures 
 upon the bonds which have been or which may be issued, 
 secured by the said mortgage of fifty millions of dollars upon 
 the property of the first party, and which it is agreed shall be 
 guaranteed by the second party. 
 
 And the second party further agrees that until the execution 
 of the guarantee so agreed to be made, it will pay, as rent 
 hereunder, an amount equal to the full amount of said interest 
 upon said bonds, as it matures, which rent, it is agreed 
 between the parties hereto, shall, as it so becomes due, be paid 
 by the second party to the Union Trust Company of New 
 York, to be held and used by said Trust Company as a special 
 fund for the payment of such interest to the holders of said 
 bonds. 
 
 And the second party shall also pay and discharge all the 
 taxes and assessments lawfully imposed upon the said prop 
 erty, or upon the capital stock and bonds or other securities 
 of the first party or upon said first party, and the second 
 party also agrees to supply such sum of money as may be 
 necessary to preserve the organization of the first party and to 
 provide for the expense of exchange registration and transfer 
 of any shares and bonds of said first party as part of the 
 annual rental of the demised premises. 
 
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 ITEM. The said first party further covenants and agrees 
 that it will from time to time and at any time hereafter, at the 
 request of the second party, make, execute and deliver all 
 such other and further, specific or general assignments and 
 transfers, instruments and assurances in the law for the fur- 
 ther, better or more perfectly assuring the railroad premises 
 and property herein and hereby demised or conveyed by it to 
 the second party according to the true intent and meaning of 
 these presents, as by the second party or its counsel learned 
 in the law shall or may be reasonably advised cr required ; 
 but it is expressly covenanted and agreed that all the assign- 
 ments and transfers, whether special or general, made or to 
 be made by or under these presents, are and shall be for and 
 only for the term of years for which the railroad of said first 
 party is hereby demised to the second party. 
 
 ITEM. The second party covenants and agrees that it will 
 during the continuance of this contract do every act and thing 
 that may by law be obligatory upon it or upon the said first 
 party in respect to the operation, condition, maintenance and 
 use of the said railroad premises and property hereby demised 
 and every part thereof, including the keeping and rendition of 
 all accounts and reports required by law, and that the said 
 second party shall and will at all times indemnify and keep 
 harmless the said first party from all costs, suits, expenses 
 and damages that the first party may sustain or incur by 
 reason of any default or failure or any alleged default or 
 failure of the second party or its agents in the operation, 
 management and use of the said railroad premises and prop- 
 erty hereby demised or any part thereof, or in its or their 
 omission to do any act required by law to be done or per- 
 formed by said first party ; but the said second party, its suc- 
 cessors and assigns, may at any time during the continuance 
 of the demised term change and alter the line, way and gauge 
 of the demised railroad, and in so doing may discontinue any 
 part of the present way or track of the said railroad and any 
 of the machine shops or depots not required for the use of 
 the line, and may also change the grade or grades of the said 
 
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 road and alter or change the location of any of the tracks, 
 water stations, buildings or erections appurtenant to or con- 
 nected therewith, and may also, if it shall deem it necessary, 
 purchase and acquire title to any additional real estate for 
 the use of such road, or may exchange its lands or buildings 
 for any other lands or buildings, or for other lands more con- 
 venient or necessary for its use and of equal value for the 
 uses and purposes of said railroad, but all such alterations, 
 changes, purchases or exchanges are to be made at the proper 
 cost and charge of the second party; and the second party, 
 its successors and assigns, may also from time to time during 
 the continuance of the said term sell and dispose of such part 
 of the demised premises and property as may not be necessary 
 for the use of the said demised railroad and its branches ; and 
 the said first party shall, in case of any such sale or exchange 
 and upon the demand in writing of the said second party at 
 any time and from time to time, execute, in due form of law, 
 good and sufficient deeds, but without covenants or warranty 
 of title, of any part of said premises which said second party, 
 its successors or assigns, may so agree to sell or exchange as 
 aforesaid, to the purchaser or the party with whom the ex- 
 change shall be made, on such terms and conditions not incon- 
 sistent with the rights of the first party as the said second 
 party may require, but all such deeds are to be prepared, 
 executed and delivered at the cost and expense of the second 
 party. All premises received in exchange are to be conveyed 
 to the said first party and held by the parties hereto as if the 
 same were now part of the premises hereby demised. And 
 the said second party covenants and agrees to pay all taxes 
 and assessments and charges thereon. 
 
 ITEM. In case the second party shall at any time during 
 said term omit to pay the rent, or fail to keep and perform 
 the covenants and agreements hereinbefore mentioned and 
 provided for, and shall continue in default in the premises for 
 the period of ninety days, it shall be lawful for the first party, 
 their successors and assigns, to enter into and upon the here- 
 by demised premises, or such of them as may then be subsist- 
 
ing in their plan, and forming the subjects of this lease, and 
 remove all persons therefrom, and from thenceforth to have, 
 hold, possess and enjoy the same as of their first and former 
 estate therein, anything herein to the contrary notwithstand- 
 ing. 
 
 ITEM. The second party covenants and agrees that at the 
 expiration or other determination of the term for which the 
 said railroad is hereby demised, it will surrender the said 
 railroad with a perfect track and all equipment depots, 
 stations, shops, grounds, buildings and structures, and in as 
 good condition and of as much value in all respects as when 
 it received them, and that it will account for and pay over to 
 the first party the consideration money received for any por- 
 tion of the lands hereby demised, which, having been found 
 not necessary for the use of the said demised railroad, may 
 have been disposed of absolutely, except such as may have 
 been exchanged for other lands of equal value, but no interest 
 money is to accrue on such consideration money during the 
 continuance of this contract ; and on the termination of this 
 contract the first party, its successors and assigns, shall pay to 
 the second party, its successors and assigns, the amount ex- 
 pended out of its own means, but without interest, in the 
 acquirement, otherwise than by exchange, of additional real 
 estate for the use of the railroad hereby demised, provided the 
 said first party shall elect to take the same, and so far as it 
 shall not elect to take the same it shall, if the title has been 
 taken in its own name, convey the same as the said second 
 party may direct, but without covenants. 
 
 ITEM. The first party covenants and agrees that the 
 second party shall, upon payment in the manner herein pro- 
 vided, of the annual rent herein reserved, and keeping and 
 performing the covenants and agreements herein agreed by it 
 to be kept and performed on its part, have the uninterrupted 
 possession, use, control and management of the said railroad 
 and of the said real estate, premises and property herein de- 
 
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 mised, with the right to ask, demand and receive for its own 
 use and benefit all tolls and charges, fares and freights, which 
 may or can be legally demanded and received for the trans- 
 portation of persons and property upon and over the same or 
 any part thereof, and all the income and revenue of the afore- 
 said estate and property of the first party, and all other its 
 rights, privileges, franchises and benefits in its quiet and 
 peaceable possession and enjoyment, without detriment, 
 hindrance, interruption or molestation from the said first 
 party or its successors or assigns, or from any of its present or 
 future officers, directors or stockholders for and during the 
 term of this contract. 
 
 ITEM. The said first party covenants that it will, during 
 the continuance of this contract, keep up and maintain its 
 existence and organization as a body corporate in due form of 
 law, and that it will, from time to time, as a body corporate, 
 and at all times when thereto required by said second party, 
 but at the expense of the latter, do and perform all such acts, 
 matters and things consistent with the rights of said first 
 party under this contract as shall be necessary in the opinion 
 and judgment of the second party or its officers or counsel, 
 to the due preservation and protection of all the estates, pro- 
 perty, rights, franchises and interests herein demised to the 
 second party, and to carry into full effect the true intent and 
 meaning of this contract, and in default thereof that the same 
 may be done by the said second party, its successors and 
 assigns, or by its lawful agents, in the name and as the act of 
 the said first party, but at the expense of the second party. 
 In order, however, to avoid expense the said first party shall, 
 so far as it is practicable and as shall be consistent with its 
 rights, allow and employ the second party, its successors and 
 assigns, to do and perform by its officers and agents for and 
 in behalf of the first party all the business, acts and things 
 necessary to be done and performed to maintain the organi- 
 zation and existence of the first party as a body corporate, 
 and to preserve and protect the estate, property, rights, fran- 
 chises and interests demised as aforesaid to the second party. 
 
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 ITEM. For the purpose of carrying this contract into effect 
 the first party in consideration of the premises hereby irre- 
 vocably constitutes and appoints the second party its attorney 
 for and during the term of this contract for the first party 
 and in its name to do all acts, matters anrl things not incon- 
 sistent with the rights of the first party hereunder necessary 
 to fulfill, enforce and carry out all and every of the provisions 
 of this contract according to its true intent and meaning ; and 
 the said first party hereby constitutes and appoints the said 
 second party its transfer agent with power by or through its 
 officers and agents or its own proper transfer agent to do and 
 perform, but at its own expense, all acts and things pertaining 
 to transferring the title to the capital stock of the said first 
 party and to such of its bonds as are commonly called regis- 
 tered and to keep all necessary books in connection therewith. 
 
 And the second party covenants and agrees to keep and 
 maintain the railroad premises equipment and other property 
 hereby demised and the appurtenances thereto belonging in 
 good order and condition and to assume and pay all the ex- 
 penses of maintaining and operating said railroad and the ap- 
 purtenances thereto belonging, together with all taxes and 
 assessments and expenses of organization, from -and including 
 the first day of January, 1886, during the full term of this 
 contract. 
 
 ITEM. Each and all of the preceding covenants, agree 
 ments and stipulations shall mutually bind and inure to the 
 benefit of the first and second parties, their and each of their 
 successors and assigns. 
 
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of said parties has 
 caused its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed 
 and attested by its Secretary, and this instru- 
 ment to be signed by its President or one of 
 its Y ice-Presidents, the day and year first 
 herein written. - 
 
 WEST SHORE RAILROAD COMPANY, 
 
 [SEAL.] By J. HOOD WEIGHT, 
 
 President. 
 
 Attest : 
 
 F. E. WORCESTEK, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 NEW YORK CENTRAL AND HUDSON RIVER 
 RAILROAD COMPANY, 
 
 [SEAL.] By CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, 
 
 President. 
 
 Attest : 
 
 E. D. WORCESTER, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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 STATE OF NEW YORK, ) 
 City and County of Albany, ( 
 
 On the fifth day of December, in the year one thousand 
 eight hundred and eighty-five, before me, the under- 
 signed, a Notary Public of the State of New York, in and 
 for the City and County of Albany, personally came 
 Franklin E. Worcester, known to me to be the Secretary 
 of the West Shore Railroad Company, the corporation 
 described in and which executed the foregoing instrument 
 as party of the first part thereto, who, being by me duly 
 sworn, did depose and say : that he resides in the City of 
 Brooklyn ; that he is the Secretary of the said West 
 Shore Railroad Company, and knows the corporate seal 
 thereof ; that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument 
 is the corporate seal of the said company, and was thereto 
 affixed by order of the Board of Directors of the said 
 company, and as the voluntary act and deed of said com- 
 pany, and that he signed his name thereto by the like 
 order as secretary of the said company. 
 
 And the said deponent further said, that he is acquainted 
 with J. Hood Wright, and knows him to be the presi- 
 dent of the said company ; that the signature of the said 
 J. Hood Wright, subscribed to the foregoing instrument 
 is in the genuine handwriting of the said J. Hood 
 Wright, and was thereto subscribed by the like order 
 of the said Board of Directors, and in the presence of 
 said deponent. 
 
 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
 official seal, this fifth day of December, A. D. 1885. 
 
 JNO. L. VAN VALKENBURGH, 
 
 Notary Public, 
 [SEAL.] Albany Co. 
 
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 STATE or NEW YORK, ) 
 City and County of Albany, \ ss * ' 
 
 On the fifth day of December, in the year one thou- 
 sand eight hundred and eighty-five, before me, the un- 
 dersigned, a notary public of the State of New York 
 in and for the City and County of Albany, personally 
 came Edwin D. Worcester, known to me to be the 
 Secretary of the New York Central and Hudson River 
 Railroad Company, the corporation described in and which 
 executed the foregoing instrument, as party of the first 
 part thereto, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and 
 say : that he resides in the City of New York ; that 
 he is the Secretary of the said New York Central and 
 Hudson River Railroad Company, and knows the corporate 
 seal thereof ; that the seal affixed to the foregoing agree- 
 ment is the corporate seal of the said company, and was 
 thereto affixed by order of the Board of Directors of the 
 said company, and that he signed his name thereto by the 
 like order, as Secretary of the said company. 
 
 And the said deponent further said, that he is acquainted 
 with Chauncey M. Depew, and knows him to be the 
 President of the said company ; that the signature of the 
 said Chauncey M. Depew, subscribed to the foregoing 
 agreement, is in the genuine handwriting of the said 
 Chauncey M. Depew, and was thereto subscribed by the 
 like order of the said Board of Directors, and in the 
 presence of said deponent. 
 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my 
 hand and official seal, this fifth day of De- 
 cember, A. D. 1885. 
 
 JNO. L. VAN VALKENBURGH, 
 [SEAL.] Notary Public, 
 
 Albany Co. 
 
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 STATE OF NEW YOKK, ) 
 City and County of New York, ( ss * : 
 
 On the day of December, in the year one thousand 
 
 eight hundred and eighty-five, before me, the undersigned, 
 a Commissioner of Deeds of the State of New Jersey in New 
 York, personally came , known to me to be 
 
 the Secretary of the West Shore Railroad Company, the 
 corporation described in and which executed the fore- 
 going instrument as party of the first part thereto, who, 
 being by me duly sworn, did depose and say ; that he 
 resides in the City of New York ; that he is the Secretary 
 of the said West Shore Railroad Company, and knows the 
 corporate seal thereof ; that the seal affixed to the forego- 
 ing instrument is the corporate seal of the said company, 
 and was thereto affixed by order of the Board of Directors 
 of the said company, and as the voluntary act and deed 
 of said company, and that he signed his name thereto by 
 the like order as secretary of the said company. 
 
 And the said deponent further said that he is acquainted 
 with , and knows him to be the presi- 
 
 dent of the said company ; that the signature of the said 
 
 subscribed to the foregoing 
 
 instrument is in the genuine handwriting of the said 
 , and was thereto subscribed by the 
 
 like order of the said Board of Directors, and in the pres- 
 ence of said deponent. 
 
 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
 official seal, this day of December, A. D. 1885. 
 
 [SEAL.] Commissioner of Deeds for the State of 
 
 New Jersey in New York. 
 
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 STATE or NEW YORK, ) 
 City and County of New York, ) 
 
 On the day of December, in the year 
 
 one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, before me, 
 the undersigned, a notary public of the State of New York 
 in and for the City and County of New York, personally 
 came Edwin D. Worcester, known to me to be the 
 Secretary of the New York Central and Hudson River 
 Railroad Company, the corporation described in and which 
 executed the foregoing instrument, as party of the first 
 part thereto, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and 
 say : that he resides in the City of Ne w York ; that he is 
 the Secretary of the said New York Central aud Hudson 
 River Railroad Company, and knows the corporate seal 
 thereof ; that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument 
 is the corporate seal of the said company, and was thereto 
 affixed by order oi' the Board of Directors of the said com- 
 pany, and that he signed his name thereto by the like order, 
 as Secretary of the said company. 
 
 And the said deponent further said, that he is acquainted 
 with Chauncey M. Depew, and knows him to be the 
 President of the said company ; that the signature of the 
 said Chauncey M. Depew, subscribed to the foregoing 
 instrument, is in the genuine handwriting of the said 
 Chauncey M. Depew, and was thereto subscribed by the 
 like order of the said Board of Directors, and in the 
 presence of said deponent. 
 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my 
 hand and official seal, this day of 
 
 December, A. D. 1885. 
 
 Commissioner of Deeds for the State of New 
 [SEAL.] Jersey in New York. 
 
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 STATE OF NEW YORK, 
 City and County of New York, 
 
 I, PATRICK KEENAN, Clerk of the City and County of 
 New York, and also Clerk of the Supreme Court for the 
 said City and County, the same being a Court of Record, 
 do hereby certify, that 
 
 whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or 
 acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and thereon 
 written, was, at the time of taking such proof and acknowl- 
 edgment, a Notary Public in and for the City and County 
 of New York, dwelling in the said city, commissioned and 
 sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, 
 that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such 
 notary, and verily believe that the signature to the said 
 certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. I 
 further certify that said instrument is executed and 
 acknowledged according to the law of the State of New 
 York. 
 
 IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and 
 affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 
 day of December, 1885. 
 
 Clerk. 
 
 [SEAL.] 
 
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 STATE OF NEW YORK, 
 City and County of New York, ' 
 
 I, PATRICK KEENAN, Clerk of the City and County 
 oi New York, and also Clerk of the Supreme Court for the 
 said City and County, the same being a Court of Record, 
 do hereby certify that 
 
 whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or 
 acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and thereon 
 written, was, at the time of taking such proof and acknowl- 
 edgment, a Notary Public, in and for said county, duly com- 
 missioned and sworn and authorized by the laws of said 
 State to take the acknowledgments and proofs of deeds or 
 conveyances for lands, tenements or hereditaments in said 
 State. And further, that I am well acquainted with the 
 handwriting of said Notary Public, and verily believe that 
 the signature to said certificate of proof or acknowledgment 
 is genuine. 
 
 IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand 
 and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 
 day of December, 1885. 
 
 ClerTc. 
 
 [SEAL.] 
 
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