Posted by Pati Blowers May on September 30, 19103 at 10:33:55:
This Land Patent information is from the Bureau of Land Management at www.glorecords.blm.gov/ . A scan of this image may be seen there as well as an order form for a certified copy if you wish to obtain one.
CHARLES S BOWLBY SOUTH DAKOTA
149.62 Acres
Issue Date: 12/07/1921 Land Office: Rapid City
U.S. Reservations: yes
Authority:May 20, 1862: Homestead EntryOriginal (12 Stat. 392)
Document # :0
Accession/Serial # :837572
BLM Serial # : SDRC 0031558
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Aliquot Parts Sec./BlockTwp Range Frac./Sec Meridian State County
NENE 24/ 11-N 14-E No Black Hills SD Meade
1 19/ 11-N 15-E No Black Hills SD Meade
Remarks: LOT 1 OR NWNW QUARTER
2 19/ 11-N 15-E No Black Hills SD Meade
Remarks: LOT 2 OR SWNW QUARTER
3 19/ 11-N 15-E No Black Hills SD Meade
Remarks: LOT 3 OR NWSW QUARTER
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Transcription of the Patent :
Rapid City 031558
The United States of America,
To all to whom these Presents shall come,Greeting:Whereas, a Certificate of the Register Of The Land Office at Rapid City,South Dakota has been deposited in the General Land Office whereby it appears that pursuant to the Act of Congress of May 20, 1862, entitled "To secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain," and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of Charles S. Bowlby has been established and duly consumated, in comformity to the law,for the Northeast quarter of the Northeast quarter of Section Twenty-four in Township eleven North of Range fifteen East of the Black Hills Meridian, South Dakota, containing one hundred and forty-nine and sixty-two hundredths acres, according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Land, returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General:
Now Know Ye! That there is,therefore granted by the United States unto the said claimant the tract of land above described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of land with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said claimant and to the heirs and assigns of the said claimant forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I Warren G. Harding President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the seventh day of December in the Year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Twenty-one and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred Forty-sixth.
By The President: Warren G. Harding
By Viola P. Pugh, Secretary
W.P. LeRoy Recorder of the General Land OfficeRecords of Patents: Patent number 837572