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APPENDIX.
61
(Seal.)
 (Signed)
R. G. MacDonnell, Governor.
Land Grant,
Register Book,
Vol. V., folio 7.

South    Australia
Country Section.

Know all men by these presents that I, Sir Richard G^v^ MacDonnell, Knight Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Province of South Australia, in consideration of the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Pounds sterling to the Treasurer on behalf of Her Majesty paid by John Adams and William Smith, of Adelaide, merchants, do hereby in name and on behalf (Her Majesty, grant unto the said John Adams and William Smith, all that Section of land containing one thousand acres, be the same more or less, and numbered 136, situate in the Hundred of Clare, County of Clare, and delineated in the public map (deposited in the Survey Office at Adelaide, and in the plan in the margin hereof, together with.all timbers, minerals, and appurtenances, to hold unto the said John Adams and William Smith, their heirs and assigns for ever.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Adelaide, this twenty-first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.

Signed, sealed, and delivered, in the presence of

(Signed)Arthur Kinlock.

I acknowledge to have received from the above-mentioned John Adams and William Smith the before-mentioned sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Pounds sterling.

[£1,500.]

Witness—
W. W. Hughes

(Signed)B. T. Finniss, Treasurer.