35759

Record of Patent
4-405-tyr.
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:

Homestead Certificate No. 1285
Application 5160

WHEREAS, There has been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United 
States a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Lamar, Colorado, 
whereas 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 thereto, the claim of 

CHARLES G. SMELTZ

has been established and duly consummated in conformity to the law, for the 
northwest quarter of section twenty-seven in Township twenty-three south of 
Range forty-four west of the sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, containing one 
hundred and sixty acres,



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

NOW KNOW YE, That there is, therefore, granted by the UNITED STATES unto the 
said 
Charles G. Smeltz
the tract of Land above described; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of land, 
with the appurtenances thereof, into the said Charles G. Smeltz

and to his heirs and assigns forever; subject to any vested and accrued water 
rights for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, and rights to 
ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may be 
recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts, 
and also subject to the right of the proprietor of a vein or lode to extract and 
remove his ore therefrom, should the same be found to penetrate or intersect the 
premises 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.

(SEAL)	GIVEN under my hand, at the City of Washington, the twenty-first 
day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty third

By the President: /s/ Theodore Roosevelt (signature)                

By      /s/        Wm. Young,                          Secretary

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Recorder of the General Land Office
(note, signature unreadable)


Source: Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States
Serial 35759
I certify this is a true copy of the official record on file in this office
Signed David Henry 7/18/00
Authorized Signature Date