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Oregon
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Land Office, Roseburg, Oregon
Certificate #1704
Whereas, in conformity with the provisions of the 7th Section of the Act of Congress, approved September 27, 1850, entitled "an Act to create the office of Surveyor General of the Public Lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey, and to make donations to settlers of public lands," and the amendments thereto James Gibson and Elizabeth his wife of the county of Lane in the State of Oregon, claiming a Donation right, in virtue of the Act aforesaid, to one tract of the Public Lands, known and designated in the Surveys and Plats of the United States as:
SW
1/4 and W 1/2 of SE 1/4 of Section 33 Township 17 South Range 4 West=240 Acres.
Lots Nos.
2, 3 and 4 of Section 4 Township 18 South Range 4 West=83.04 Acres
And containing in
the aggregate-323.04 Acres.
North half for husband - South half for wife.
having proven to the satisfaction of the Register and Receiver of the Umpqua District, Oregon, the fact that such settlement was commenced on the 6th day of June 1852 and continued to the 10th day of June 1858 , four years prior to the date hereof; and having in pursuance of the requirements of the 7th Section of Act aforesaid established by two disinterested witnesses, the fact of continued residence and cultivation required by the said Act:
Now therefore, both known, That we Wm. R. Willis and (?) Register and Receiver of Public Lands in said State, do hereby, and pursuant to the 7th Section of the Act aforesaid, certify to the Commissionerof the General Land Office the facts aforesaid, accompanied by the evidence thereof, in order that a patent may be issued to said claimant James Gibson and wife for the tract of land described, as required by the 7th Section of the Act aforesaid: Provided, that the said Commissioner shall find no valid objection thereto.
Given under our hands, at the Land Office, in Roseburg, for the District of Umpqua, Oregon, this 10th day of April 1871.