State of Florida  }
County of Alachua }
I Hereby Certify, That on this 14th day of August AD 1917,
before me personally appeared Thomas M. Cauthen & wife
Blanch E. Cauthen, and Nathan P. Cauthen & wife Ida
Ida Guess Cauthen known to be the persons described in
and who executed the foregoing conveyance to T.J. France
and severally acknowledged the execution thereof to be their free
act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned;
and the said Blanche E. Cauthen & Ida Guess Cauthen wives
of the said Thomas M. Cauthen & Nathan P. Cauthen on a sep
arate and private examination taken and made by and
before me, and separately and apart from her said hus
band, did acknowledge that she made herself a party to
the said Deed of Conveyance, for the purpose of renouncing,
relinquishing and conveying all her right, title and in-
terest, whether of dower or of separate property, statutory
or equitable, in and to the lands therein described, and
that she executed said deed freely and voluntarily and
without any constraint, fear, apprehension or compul-
sion of or from her said husband. Witness my signature 
and official seal at Waldo in the County of Alachua
and State of Florida the day and year last aforesaid.
          (Seal)   W.C. Hicks.
                 Notary Public State of Florida
                 My Com expires July 21, 1920.
 Filed and Recorded Oct 18th 1917.
                                    S.H. Wienges Clerk
                                  By C.E. Wienges DC


    United States }
        To        }  Patent
    H.W. Simmons  }         
Gainesville 03569
         The United States of America,
 To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas, a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office
at Gainesville, Florida, has been deposited in the Gen
eral Land Office, whereby it appears that, pursuant to 
the Act of Congress of May 20, 1862 "To Secure Homestead
to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain," and the acts