seal as Commissioner as aforesaid on this the Seventh day of
May AD 1877                 }
Signed Sealed and delivered } Saml C. Tucker
in presence of us           }    Commissioner
 Joseph Cone                }
 J.H. Roper                 }
                            }
State of Florida }
Alachua County   } Before me personally appeared Sam
uel C. Tucker to me well known & personally known as the
person described in and who executed the foregoing deed
and acknowledged that he executed the same as Commissioner
for the uses and purposes as therein set forth and contained
Taken and acknowledged   }
and subscribed before me }  Saml. C. Tucker
this the 23rd day of June}
AD 1877 J.A. Carlisle    }
       Clerk Cir Court   } Recorded June 26th 1877
                         }           J.A. Carlisle
                         }                   Clerk 



This is to certify that Thomas Tillis has purchased from the un-
dersigned James T. Soutter and John McRae, Trustees of the Florida Rail
Road company. The South East quarter of the south West quarter
of the North West quarter of the North East quarter and the 
North East quarter of the North West quarter of Section thirty one
Township seven south of Range twenty one East containing
one hundred & twenty Six & 45/100 acres more or less for which
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he has paid us the sum of one hundred and four & 93/100 Dollars,
and also executed his two notes bearing even date with these presen-
                and
ts payable in one^two years respectively for the sum of Eighty five
dollars and thirty seven cents-            Dollars
on the payment of which said several notes we hereby bind
ourselves to make to the said Thomas Tillis a good and perfect
fee simple title to the said lands.
It being however, distinctly understood that in the event of a fail-
ure to pay any of the said notes within thirty days, after the sum
shall have matured; it shall be at our option whether to enforce
payment of the said notes, or treat the said contract as annulled 
all previous payments as forfeited, and to resell the said lands.
  Witness our hands and seals, this the 4th day of August AD
1859.
                                        Jas T. Soutter  (LS)
  Witness                               John McRae      (LS)
M.A. Williams                       per Geo MCall
                                            Attorney

  Recorded June 27th 1877    J.A. Carlisle Clerk