In Re Adoption of Ralph Theodore Stonehouse

BUFORD, C. J.:

In proceedings for the adoption of a boy child born out of wedlock there was attached to the petition for adoption of the said child by the petitioners the written consent of the mother executed in the presence of two subscribing witnesses and sworn to by the mother before a notary public. A certified copy of the petition was mailed to the Florida State Welfare Board and thereafter, on May 1, 1944, the Board filed its recommendations as to such adoption as provided in Sec. 9 of Chapter 21759 Acts. of 1943, inter alia as follows:

“II. That as a result of such study the State…