Posted by Pati Blowers May on September 15, 19102 at 22:42:02:
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John F. Bowlsby
Survey State: Montana Acres: 240
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 11/11/1914
Land Office: Havre
U.S. Reservations: Yes
Authority: May 20, 1862: Homestead EntryOriginal (12 Stat. 392)
Document Nr.: 0491
Accession/Serial Nr.: 441277
BLM Serial Nr.: MTHVR 0000491
Comments: ADDITIONAL GLO SERIAL #01019
Legal Land Description:
AliquotParts Sec./Block Twp. Range Meridian State Counties
NE 15/ 32-N 16-E Montana PM MT Hill
NWSE 15/ 32-N 16-E Montana PM MT Hill
SWSE 10/ 32-N 16-E Montana PM MT Hill
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Transcription of the Patent :
Havre 0491 and 01019
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 Havre,Montana 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 John F. Bowlsby has been established and duly consumated, in comformity to the law,for the North East quarter of the South West quarter of the South East quarter of Section ten in Township thirty-two North of Range sixteen East of the Montana Meridian, Montana, containing two hundred and forty 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 Woodrow Wilson 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 eleventh day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred Thrity ninth.
By The President: Woodrow Wilson
By M.P. LeRoy, Secretary
L.J.C. Lamar Recorder of the General Land Office
Records of Patents: Patent number 441277