against all and every person and persons whomsoever lawfully claiming
or to claim the same shall and will warrant and by these presents forever
defend In Testimony Whereof the said party of the first part has hereunto
affixed his hand and seal this the day and year above written
signed sealed and delivered in Presence of }
            G. Stark                       } Sam'l A. Swann (seal)
          J.A. Edwards                     }
State of Florida }
County of Nassau } On this day personally appeared before me Samuel A. Swann
to me well known as the person described in and who executed the foregoing
Deed of conveyance and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purpose
therein expressed Whereupon it is prayed that the same may be recorded
Witness my hand and seal this Thirteenth day of March 1882
                                J.A. Edwards         (    )
                               Clerk Circuit Court (  Seal  )
                               Nassau County Florida (    )
    Recorded March 27th 1882
              J.A. Carlisle Clerk
                  pr S.H. Wienges DC


  Internal Improvement Fund To Peninsular Rail Road Company
No 10783              "Deed"
    Whereas upon a petition by the Peninsular Railroad Company a Corporation
organized under the general laws of the State of Florida filed in the Circuit Court
of the United States for the Fifth Judicial Circuit and Northern District of Florida
in the suit pending in said Court between Francis Vose and others complain=
ants and the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida
and other defendants the following order was made by the Judge of said Court
to wit:
Francis Vose vs The Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of
Florida. Petition of the Peninsular Railroad Company.
     "And now on this 19th day of February AD 1880 the petition in this case coming
on to be heard and James M. Baker Esq appearing for the petitioner and John T.
Walker Esq for Francis Vose and in opposition to the prayer of the petitioner and
argument having been heard and it appearing by a legislative act of the State
of Florida entitled "an act to provide for and encourage a liberal system of Internal
Improvements in this State", approved January 6th 1855, and by the 15th Section
thereof the State thereby granted to each of the different Companies that might
thereafter construct portions of any of the lines or routes indicated in said act
the alternate sections of State lands on each side for six miles; and that
by a resolution of the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of
Florida adopted on the 29th day of December 1856 the odd numbered Sections were
allotted to the companies so constructing said roads and that the line from Amelia
Island on the Atlantic to the waters of Tampa Bay with an extension to
Cedar Keys was one of the lines indicated in the said act and to which
such grant was applicable; and that the petitioner in this case the Peninsular
Railroad Company deriving its rights through the Florida Railroad Company