Malinda Dickens, Vernon Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Bill McCullough
Date: January 6, 2009

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The United States of America,
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
Homestead Certificate No. 11025
Application 18939
Whereas, There has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United
States a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at New Orleans,
Louisiana, whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Acts of Congress
approved 20 May, 1862, "To secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the
Public Domain," and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of Malinda A.
Dickens has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, 
for the South West quarter of the North West quarter of Section seventeen
in Township one South of Range five West of Louisiana Meridian in Louisiana
containing forty-one acres and ninety-nine hundredths of an acre according 
to the Official Plat of the Survey of said Land, returned to the General
Office by the Surveyor General.
Now know ye that there is, therefore, granted by the United States unto the
said Malinda A. Dickens the tract of Land above described: To Have And To
Hold the said tract of Land with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said
Malinda A. Dickens and to her heirs and assigns forever; 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 Theodore Roosevelt, 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 Sixth day of April, in 
the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three, and of the 
Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh

By the President, T. Roosevelt
By F.M. McKeane, Secretary.
C.H. Brush, Recorder of the General Land Office.