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APPENDIX.

Certificate of Title,
Register Book,
Vol. V., folio 14.

South    Australia.

Pursuant to Memorandum of Sale No. 561, dated 15th day of January, 1859, by John Adams and William Smith, William Smith of Adelaide, merchant, is now seized of an estate in fee simple, subject nevertheless to such encumbrances, liens, and interests as are notified by memorandum endorsed hereon, in that piece of land situated in the Hundred of Clare, County of Clare, being the north-western portion of the Section numbered 136 in the said Hundred, and formed by drawing a line from the north-east corner to the south-west corner of the said Section, which said piece of land contains five hundred acres be the same more or less, and is bounded as appears in the plan drawn in the margin hereof, and therein marked by a thick line, which said Section numbered 136 is delineated in the public map of the said Hundred deposited in the office of the Surveyor-General, and was originally granted the 21st day of August, 1S58, under the hand and seal of Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, Governor-in-Chief of the said Province, to the said John Adams and William Smith, as appears by Land Grant, Vol. V., folio, 7, now delivered up and cancelled.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal the sixteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

(Seal.)

Registrar-General.

Signed, sealed, and delivered the 16th day of January, 1859, in presence of

W. B. T. A.

Lease No. 718, dated the twentieth day of January, 1859, from the above-named William Smith to John Brown, of Adelaide, carpenter, of the above-described land Term, 21 years. Rent £s^^ per annum, payable half-yearly, on the 20th July and 20th day of January.

Recorded the 21st day of January, 1859, at half-past eleven o'clock in the forenoon.

Registrar-General.