State of Illinois }
Macon County      } Personally appeared before me the
subscriber who being duly sworn deposes and says
that they saw the above grantor sign seal and deliver
the above deed or Mortgage for the purposes therein
expressed and they together with A.W. Conklin
signed the same as witnesses
     J.W. McClellan               L.F.S. Kelley
signed and Sworn to before me this the 8th day of
June AD 1883              George P. Hardy
  ((seal))                           County Clerk

State of Illinois }
Macon County      } In person appeared before
me Mrs Harriet B. Halsted the wife of Ira J. Hal-
sted and being by me examined separately and
apart from her said husband acknowledged
that she executed the above mortgage for the purposes
therein expressed and that she executed the same
freely and without any fear apprehension or Com-
pulsion of or from said husband
Signed taken made acknowledged and sworn to
before me separately and privately from her said
husband as stated above this the 8th day of June
AD 1883              George P. Hardy
                               County Clerk
((Seal))
    State of Florida }
  Alachua County     } In person appeared me J.H. Goss
who being duly Sworn says that he Saw Ira J. Halsted one
of the grantors in the above mortgage execute the Same
for the purposes therein expressed and he together with
L.C. Ellis Signed the Same as witnesses
Sworn to and Subscribed before me }      J.H. Goss
this June 13" 1883                }
  Moses J. Taylor Jr.             }
  Notary Public at Large          }
  for the State of Florida 
      Filed for Record July 9th 1883
    Recorded July 10th 1883
                   J.A. Carlisle
                             Clerk