use and enjoyment of all of the said "Bracken Place" and, on
   the death of my wife, I give, bequeath and devise all of
   said "Bracken Place" to my son, Franklin D. Roosevelt, forever, 
   subject, however, to the right of my wife to have it sold, and 
   if sold, to have the use of the proceeds thereof during her 
   life in the same manner as my said last Will and Testament 
   provides for the sale of all real estate of which my wife is to 
   have the use during her life.
 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed 
my seal this 28th day of May, in the year one thousand nine hundred
(1900).
 
                                            JAMES ROOSEVELT [L. S.]
 
Witnesses:  JOHN HACKETT.
            Jos. A. DAUGHTON.
 
 The foregoing instrument was, on the day of the date thereof subscribed
by James Roosevelt, the testator therein named, as and for a Codicil to
his last Will and Testament, he at the time of making such subscription,
acknowledged that he made the same and declared the said instrument so
subscribed by him to be a Codicil to his last Will and Testament. 
Whereupon we, then and there at his request, in his presence and in the 
presence of each other subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
 
                          JOHN HACKETT, residing at Hyde Park, N. Y.
                          Jos. A. DAUGHTON, residing at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
 
         STATE OF NEW YORK,                              
COUNTY OF DUTCHESS, SURROGATE'S OFFICE.
 
  I, JOSEPH V. LYONS, Clerk of the Surrogate's Court of the County of 
Dutchess, New York, do hereby certify that the annexed instrument is a 
copy of the last will and testament and Codicil thereto of JAMES 
ROOSEVELT, late of the Town of Hyde Park in said County of Dutchess, 
deceased, which said last will and testament and Codicil thereto was 
admitted to probate and record in said Court as a Will valid to pass
both real and personal estate by a decree of the Surrogate's Court of
the said County of Dutchess bearing date the 22nd day of December, 1900,
and which said Will is recorded in the Dutchess County Surrogate's 
Office in Liber 15 of Wills, Page 303.That I have compared said copy 
with the original record now in my custody, and that the same is a true
transcript therefrom and of the whole thereof.
 
      IN TESTIMONY ,WHEREOF, We have caused the seal of office of our 
         Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. Witness Hon.FREDERICK S. 
         QUINTERRO, Surrogate of our said County, at Poughkeepsie, 
         in said County of Dutchess, this 
         ______________day of______________________ in the year of our
         Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-
 
 
                                           Clerk of the Surrogate's Court.