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Subject: Public Land Records
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 03:06:13 -0500


Hi Ken,

I have news about the Land Patent for John O'Brien from the Sacramento BLM
Office. Early last week I had called that office at 916-979-2835 about
obtaining a copy of the Patent for the property that John O'Brien had
purchased from the Federal Government in Alameda County on May 21,1868. The
BLM person asked me for the detailed legal description of the property
(section, township, range, and meridian). The cost for a copy of the Patent
was $1.10 which I purchased by credit card. One week later, the Patent
arrived in the mail. It is a one-page handwritten document which verifies
that payment for the public land was made by O'Brien and that it was approved
by President Andrew Johnson on Nov. 10, 1868. The document had little
additional information then what I had already gotten from the Tract Books at
the National Archives. It is interesting that this land was sold under an
"Act of disposal of coal lands and of Town Property in the Public Domain."
This explains the "Coal Land Certificate No. 4" that was written in the Tract
Book and is shown in the upper left corner of the Patent. Now, Ken, what do
you suggest I do next?

Dan Mosier

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