to be hereunto affixed
((Seal))  Given under my hand, at the City of
          Washington the first day of May in the
          year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred
and fifty five and of the Independence of the United
States the Seventy Ninth
          By the President: Franklin Pierce
              By H.E. Baldwin  Secty

              W.G. Mangul   Recorder of the General
land office
Recorded Vol 4 Page 348
              Recorded October 18th 1877
                            J.A. Carlisle  Clerk

  The United States Of America
To all to whom these presents Shall Come Greeting:
Certificate }
No 5221     }  Whereas Joseph M. Kitler of Alachua 
County Florida has deposited in the General Land office 
of the United States, a Certificate of the register of the Land 
Office at Newnansville whereby it appears that full 
payment has been made by the Said Joseph M. Kitler 
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 West half of the North East
Quarter of Section Eight in township nine of Range
twenty two in the district of lands Subject to Sale at
Newnansville Florida Containing Seventy nine acres and 
fifty Eight hundredths of an Acre - 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 Joseph M.
Kitler
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 pres-
ents Do Give and Grant, unto the Said Joseph M. Kitler
and to his heirs, the Said tract above described; To Have 
and to Hold the Same, together with all the rights priv-
ileges, immunities and appurtenances of Whatsoever nature 
thereunto belonging, unto the Said Joseph M. Kitler
          In Testimony Whereof I James Buchanan
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 affixed.
    Given under my hand, at the City of Wash-
    ington, the first day of October in the year of