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Land Grant CertificateEntry/Object ID
2009.10.7Description
Framed certificate granting land to Charles H. Klipper. The certificate was granted by the Register of the Land Office in Beatrice, Nebraska. Dated May 15, 1876. Part of the Homestead Act of 1862. Signed by Ulysses S. Grant
Certificate reads:
The United States of America, to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Homestead Certificate No. 2562
Application 3936
Whereas there have been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Beatrice, Nebraska, whereby 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 H. Klipper has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, for the north half of the north east quarter of section twenty eight in Township Six North of Range Five East in the district of lands subject to sale at Beatrice, Nebraska containing eighty 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 H. Klipper the tract of Land above described: To have and to hold the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Charles H. Klipper and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In testimony whereof, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the Seat of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy six, and the Independence of the United States the one hundredth.
By the President US Grant
By OO Cone, Secretary.
JM Armstrong, Recorder of the General Land Office ad-interim
Recorded, Vol. 6. Page 29Collection
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Charles H. Klipper
