C.M.  LANDER, 50 Bromfield Street, Boston, Contractor for Mailing.

Suffolk, ss.: 

  Personally appears before me at Boston, this nineteenth day of
  September. 1885, C.M.  Lander, who swears the forgoing statement, by him
  made, to be true.

RUFUS G. FAIRBANKS, Justice of the Peace.

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