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The November 10, 1879, United States Land Patent to Nathan Harris

Harrison received a U.S. land patent for 112.15 acres in lots 2, 3, and 4 of Section 22 in Township 10, South Range One West of the San Bernardino Meridian. This land is in Rincon at the bottom of Palomar Mountain. It is not the property on which Dr. Mallios’s excavations have been undertaken. The November 10, 1879, patent reads as follows:

The United States of America
To all whom these presents, shall come. Greeting:
Homestead Certificate No. 113}
Application 402}
Whereas There has been deposited in the General
Land Offices of the United States a Certificate of the Register of the Land
Office at Los Angeles, California, whereby it appears that pursuant to
the Act of Congress Approved 20th May 1862. To Secure Hence
Steads to actual Settlers on the Public Domain, and the Act sup-
plemental thereto, the claim of Nathan Harris has been established and
duly commuted in conformity to law for the South East quad
of the South West quarter and its lots numbered Two, Three, and
Four of Section Twenty-two in Township Ten South of range
one West San Bernardino Meridian, in the district of Courts
subject to sale at Los Angeles, California, containing One
hundred and twelve acres and eight hundredths of an acre.
according to the official Plat of the survey of the said Land,
returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General.
Now Know Ye. that there is therefore granted by the United
States unto the said Nathan Harris the tract of land above
described. to have and to hold the said tract of land and
the appurtenances thereof unto the said Nathan Harris, and to his
heirs and assigns heirs, subject to any vested and accrued water rights
for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, and rights
to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights
as may be recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws,
and decisions of Court, and also subject to the rights of the proprietor
of a vein or lode to extract and remove his ore therefrom should the
claim be found to penetrate or intersect the premises hereby granted
as provided by law.
In Testimony Whereof, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, 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 Washington this Tenth day of
November, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy nine, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and Fourth.
By the President. R B Hayes
By W H Crook, Secretary
S. W. Clark. Recorder of the General Land Office.
Recorder []
Filed and recorded at the request of J. P. Hayes March 9th 1882 at 5 min past 9 o’clock AM
Gilbert P. Essnie. County Recorder

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