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         Compton/City of LA,  Deed of 1927      
            Inyo County California Deeds
              Vol II of Deeds page 292
                       
                        Deed  

       William A. Compton and Luella Compton
To the City of Los Angeles, Board of Water and Power 
Commissioners. Dated June 4, 1927.         10262

We the Undersigned, William A. Compton and Luella 
Compton husband and wife, of the county of Inyo, State 
of California for and in consideration of the sum of Ten
Dollars $10.00 lawful money of the United States, to us 
paid by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners, of 
the City of Los Angeles, in behalf of said city, the 
receipt whereof is hereby acknowleged, do by these 
presents grant, bargain, sell and convey unto said city
of Los Angeles, a municiipal corporation of the State of
California, all that certain parcel of land situate in 
the  county of Inyo, State of California,  described as 
follows: 
The East Half of the Northwest Quarter and the Southwest 
Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section Nine, 
Township 7 south, Range 33 East, M.D.B. & M.

Together with all water, water rights and water stock
pertaining thereto or used thereon, including 125 shares 
of the capital stock of Bishop Creek Ditch Company, a
corporation.
To Have and To Hold the above granted and described 
premises with all its appurtenances, unto said the city
of Los Angeles, its successors and assigns, forever.
In Witness Whereof we hereunto set our hands and seals
this 4th day of June, 1927.          William A. Compton
                                       Luella Compton 
Witness:
State of California
County of Inyo        ss.
On this 4th day of June, 1927, before me A.D. Schiveley,
a Notary Public in and for said county, duly comissioned
and sworn, personally appeared William A. Compton and 
Luella Compton, husband and wife, known to me to be the
persons whose names are subscribed to the forgoing
instrument and acknowledged to that they executed the
same.  Witness my hand and official seal:
                   (seal)      A.D. Schiveley
            Notary Public in and for the County of Inyo
                      State of California
Resolved, That deed executed by William A. Compton and 
Luella Compton, husband and wife of date June 4, 1927,
conveying to the City of Los Angeles, for a consideration
of $10.00 certain real property situate in the county of 
Inyo, State of California, more particulary described in 
said deed, be, and the same is hereby accepted.
I Hereby Certify, That the foregoing is a full, true and
correct copy of a resolution adopted by board of Water 
and Power Commissioners of the city of Los Angeles, at
its meeting of June 10, 1927
            (corporate seal) Jas. P. Froman,
Secretary, Board of Water and Power Commissioners, City
of Los Angeles. Approved as to form, this 6th day of 
June, 1927 Jesse E. Stephens, city Attorney.
            Byford Hendricks, Deputy
Description correct P.E. Ritch, Engineer. Jan. 15, 1927.
Filed for record at the request of Ford Hendricks, Jun.
21, 1927, 11 minutes past 10 o'clock. A.M.
#236                           Mamie Reynolds, recorder.