Author: Judge of Probate
Title: State of Michigan – Probate Court for the County of Kent, Letters of Guardianship
Date: 20 April 1915
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note:
In the Matter of the Estate of Viola Thomas, Minor. to Charles R. Thomas of the Township of South Arm, Charlevoix County, Greeting: You have been appointed guardian of said ward, and having given a bond in the premises which has been duly approved and filed as required by law, I do by these presents commit unto you full power and authority to ask, sue for, recover, receive and take into your custody, all and singular, the real estate, goods and chattels, rights and credits which accrue to said ward… in right of inheritance, or which by any other way or means whatsoever doth of right appertain or belong to said ward; and you are to make a true and perfect inventory thereof, and return the same unto said court on or before the 20th day of May next ensuing; hereby requiring you to dispose of, manage, employ and improve the same according to law, and for the best interest of said ward; and within one year from the date hereof, and at least once in each year thereafter during the continuance of your guardianship, and at such other time as the judge of probate shall direct, to render on oath to said court a true account of the property os said ward in your hands, including the proceeds of all the real estate that may be sold by you , and of the management and disposition of such property; and at the expiration of your trust to settle your accounts with said judge of probate, or with said ward or her legal representatives; and to pay over and deliver all the estate and effects remaining in your hands, and due from you on such settlement, to the person or persons who shall be lawfully entitled thereto, and to perform all orders and decrees of said court by you to be performed in the premises.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court, at the city of Grand Rapids, in said county, this 20th day of April A.D. 1915.
… – Judge of Probate