____________________________________________________________________________ Certificate No. 204 The United States of America. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas Elijah Kelley has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Little Rock whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said Elijah Kelley according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled, "An act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands," for the North East quarter of Section thirty, in Township Eight South of Range twenty three West in the District of Lands offered for sale at Little Rock Arkansas, containing one hundred and Sixty Acres according to the official plat of the survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General, which said tract has been purchased by the said Elijah Kelley. Now Know Ye, That the United States Of America, in consideration of the premises, and in conformity with the several acts of Congress, in such case made and provided, have Given and Granted, and, by these presents do give and grant, unto the said Elijah Kelley and to his heirs the said tract above described. To Have and to Hold the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities, and appurtenances, of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said Elijah Kelley. In testimony whereof, I, Andrew Jackson, 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 Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the first day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, and the Independence of the United States the fifty third. By the President, A. J. C. G., Commissioner of the General Land Office. ____________________________________________________________________________ Arkansas, Little Rock, Patent C-204, Volume 1, page 190. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States Office, Silver Spring, Maryland. ____________________________________________________________________________ HTML file and design by David Kelley, 1997. All rights reserved.