Land Patent: Enoch R. Bowlby - OR 1912

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: 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. : : Enoch R. Bowlby : : Survey State: Oregon Acres: 80 : Title Transfer : Issue Date: 4/15/1912 : Land Office: LaGrande : U.S. Reservations: Yes : Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) : Document Nr.: 08847 : Accession/Serial Nr.: 259567 : BLM Serial Nr.: ORLG 0008847 : Legal Land Description: : AliquotParts Sec./Block Twp. Range Meridian State Counties : W½SW 15/ 1-S 45-E Willamette OR Wallowa : : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : Transcription of the Patent : : : LaGrande 08847 : : 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 LeGrande,Oregon has been deposited in the General Land Office whereby it appears that pursuant to the Act of Congress of April 24, 1820, entitled "An Act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands," and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of Enoch R. Bowlby has been established and duly consumated, in comformity to the law,for the West half of the South West quarter,of Section Fifteen in Township one South of Range forty-five East of the Willamette Meridian, Oregon, containing eighty 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;subject to any vested and accrued water rights for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, and rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights,as may be recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws and decisions of courts and also subject to the right of the proprietor of a vein or lode to extract and remove his ore therefrom should the same be found to penetrate or intersect the premises hereby granted,and provided by law. And there is reserved from the lands hereby granted,a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States. : : In Testimony Whereof, I William H. Taft 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 fifteenth day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred Thirty sixth. : : By The President: William H. Taft : By M.P. LeRoy, Secretary : H.W. Sanford Recorder of the General Land Office : Record Of Patents: Patent Number 259567