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I enclose you herewith my check for $40.00, being assessment recently voted on two shares of the Chester Cliffs Company standing in my name;1 also check of Helen M. Chesnutt for $20.00, assessment on one share of said stock standing in her name.2
I have written to Mr.3 and Mrs. Donahey4 asking them to forward check to you for their assessment.5
Yours very truly,Correspondent: Albert Franklin (Frank) Counts (1881–1946), a White Cleveland lawyer with a 1906 law degree from Western Reserve University's law school, was a member and initially the secretary and treasurer of the Chester Cliffs Club when it was founded. In 1913, he married Eula (Eulalie) Gaskill Miller Counts (1869–1942). In 1930 Counts was given an 18-month prison sentence for embezzlement in a fraudulent divorce case; he was paroled in December of 1931.