S.H. Wienges  Clerk
                           By C.E. Wienges D.C.

The United States of America }
          To                 }  Patent
Mary Ann Harper              }
       The United States of America,
  To all to whom these presents shall come, Gretting:
Homestead Certificate No 14324. }
Application  23360              }  Whereas There has 
been deposited in the General Land Office of the 
United States a Certificate of the Register of the Land 
Office at Gainesville Florida, whereby it appears that, 
pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th May, 
1862, "To secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the 
Public Domain," and the acts supplemental there
to, the claim of Mary Ann Harper has been estab-
lished and duly consummated, in conformity to law, 
for the South half of the North East quarter and the
North half of the South East quarter of section seven, in 
Township eight South of Range fifteen East, of Tallah-
assee Meridian Florida, containing one hundred and
sixty seven acres and twelve hundredths of an acre, ac
cording to the Official Plat of the survey of the said Land,
returned to General Land Office by the Surveyor Gen
eral. Now know ye, That there is, therefore, granted by the 
United States unto the said Mary Ann Harper the tract 
of Land above described: To Have and To Hold the said 
tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said 
Mary Ann Harper and to her heirs and assigns forever. In 
testimony whereof, I, William McKinley, 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 Wash
                      ington, the fourteenth day of August,
                      in the year of our Lord one thousand 
                      eight hundred and ninety nine, and 
                      of the Independence of the United States 
                      the one hundred and twenty fourth.

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