Land Patent for Andrew J. Campbell, Fayette, Alabama

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Transcribed December 5, 2002 by Darlene (Campbell) Scott
  
  
Andrew J. Campbell Land Patent - Fayette County Alabama 

 
Montgomery 09154               

RECORD OF PATENTS: PATENT NUMBER..716495 }

 
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO ALL MEN WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME 
GREETINGS: Whereas, a  Certificate of the Register of the Land Office 
at Montgomery Alabama has been deposited in the  General Land Office, 
whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress of May 20, 1862

"To Secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain," and the 
acts supplemental  thereto, the claim of Andrew J. Campbell, has been 
established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, for

The South Half of the North East Quarter and the East Half of the South 
East Quarter of Section Twenty Four in Township Fourteen South of Range 
Eleven West of the Huntsville Meridian, Alabama, containing One Hundred 
Sixty acres,

according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Land, returned 
to the GENERAL LAND  OFFICE by the Surveyor Geneeral:

NOW KNOW YE, That there is, therefore, granted by the UNITED STATES unto 
the said,

Andrew J. Campbell

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, Reserving however to the 
United States all coal in said lands so PATENTED, and to it, or persons 
authorized by it, the right to prospect for, mine, and remove coal from 
the same upon compliance with the conditions of and subject to the 
limitations of the Act of June 22, 1910
(36 Stat., 583).

 { Seal } 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States 
of America have caused these letters to be made PATENT, and the   Of the 
General Land Office to be hereunto affixed Given under my hand at the 
city of Washington.

The Third day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine 
Hundred and Ninteen and of  the Independence of the United States the 
One Hundred and Forty-Forth.

By the President, Woodrow Wilson 
By L. W. LeRoy Secretery,
L. C. Lamar, Recorder Of The General Land Office