Bounty Land Grant
(C. Avis Catalog entry #850)
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office
Military Warrant MW-0295-325
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
WHEREAS, In pursuance of the Act of Congress, approved March 9, 1855, entitled "An Act in addition to certain Acts granting Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the military serve of the United States," there has been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
Warrant No. 47786 for 160 acres, in favor of Davis Avis,
who served in the name of David Avis, Private, Captain
Fitzhugh's Company, Texas Militia, Texas Frontier
Disturbance
with evidence that the same has been duly located upon
the South West quarter of sec-
tion thirty-two in Township twenty north of Range
six East, in the District of Sanas subject to sale at
Monroe, Louisiana, containing one hundred and
fifty seven acres and fifty eight hundredeths of an
acre.
according to the Official Plat of the Survey of said Lands returned to the GENERAL LAND OFFICE by the SURVEYOR GENERAL
the said warrant having been assigned by the said Davis Avis, to Rinaldo D. Marble, in whose favor said tract has been located.
NOW KNOW YE, That there is therefore granted by the UNITED STATES unto the said
Rinaldo D. Marble as assignee as aforesaid and to his heirs
the tract of Land above described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said
Rinaldo D. Marble, as assignee as aforesaid and to his
heirs and assigns forever.
In testimony whereof, I James Buchanan PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, have caused the 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, the first day
of November in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty, and of the INDEPENDENCE
OF THE UNITED STATES the eighty fifth
BY THE PRESIDENT JAMES BUCHANAN
by J. A. B. Leonard Sec'y.
J. N. Granger Recorder of the General Land Office.