BHEBMAN V. SAVEET. 507 �the second part the sum of $1,000, to cover such costs and expanses and efforts in fuU, and the remainder of ail the proeeeds of sueh business is to be equally divided between tho parties hereto ; the county to take and have one-half thereof , and to pay and deliver the other half thereof to the party of the second part ; each sharing alike in such equal division as to land, Bcrip and money. �"By order of the board of supervisors. [Stamp.] �"Jakvis J. EoflBES, Chairman. "David Butts, "Gabriel Pence, "Edgae Osbokne, �"E. D. HUNTLEY, �"Supervisera. "Attest: F. C. D. McKA-r. �"H. B. Gbat, Clerk. �"By H. G. Parkbb, Deputy. �"State of lowa, Cerro Gordo County — ss.: �"I, B. F. Hartsorn, clerk of the board of supervisors în and for said county, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a full, true and correct copy of a oontract entered into by and between the aforesaid county and P. 0. D. McKay on the sixteenth day of May, 1863, as appears from the original now on file in my office. �"Witness my hand and the seal of said board this sixteenth day of June, 1866. �[l. s.] "B. F. Haetshork, �[Stamp.] "Clerk Board of Supervisors." �Under this contract McKay and his associate, after five years of toil and the expenditure of large sums of money, secured from the United States government, for said county, in cash, $7,257.62, and 30,063 78-100 acres of land. The cash vras remitted by draft of the treasurer of the United States, payable to the order of the governor of lowa, for the use of Cerro Gordo county. unless such clearly appears to be the intent Bection 23 of the bumt record ����
