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Notice..
Notice.
Brown COUNTY, STATE OF KAKsAs,1
Decamho nth 1850


Brown COUNTY, STATE OF KAKsAs,l
December 10th, 1862
T1O ANDREW J. ANGEL, ESQ:
l. Bounty Land Warrant No. 9759, for $50
acres, issued under act of March 3, 1855, in the
name of Stephen A. Lowry, has been returned
to the General Land Office located in your
name, at the Land Office at Kickapoo, Kansas,
Oh the 5th day of February, 1853, in virtue of
an assignment purporting to be from Thomas
Nesbit, Jr., executed on the 3lst Of August,
1858, in your favor, in presence of the follow
ing witnesses: P. B. FOwke and S. NJ. Kase,
and acknowledged before ". W. Roman, CLERK
Of County Court, dated August 3lst, 1858, at
St. Clair County, Illinois.
This is to notify you, that have filed in the
General Land Office, q caveat under oath, in
which declare that am the actual owner of
said Warrant, and that l have never sold,
transferred, or assigned the same, or authorized
any other person to sell or assign il for me, or
in my name, and that said Land Warrant was
fraudulently and uDlawfully taken from me,
under the following circumstances: On the 18th
Of August, 1855, with said Warrant and one
other, was in the city of st. Louis, Missouri,
on my way West to locate said Warrants. On
that day fell in with man whose name then
was, ever since hath been, and still 10 to me
unknosn, BY whom l was invited to take
oseSAA sSSNs Ssio Sisy suab Wuh0 WeAAih6 WIN
him, We met second man, also unknown to
me, with whom the first mentioned man got
into conversation; soon after, the second man
produced q metallic ball, which the first pro.
ceedsd to open and examine; soon after, the
ball was returned to said second man, who pro-
posed to the first, that he would bet him that
the ball was both hollow and contained . pa
par in the inside; the first admitted it to be
hollow, but proposed to bet that it did not con-
tain q paper; the second man then said he
would bet with the first man 500 or $500 that
it did contain paper, which bet said first man
accepted, but saying that he had not enough
money to stake, asked the use of my said Land
Warrants to add to his money, and with these
make the bet; handed him the Warrants,
when they, with the money, were placed on
the ground, when the second man proceeded to
open said ball, and declared that it had . paper
in it, and at once snatched up said money and
Warrants and ran away, followed BY the fnt
man, both Of whom made their escape, since |
which time have not been able to see either
of said men; and thus, by said dishonest and
swindling practice, usually known - the "ball
game" said Warrant was fraudulently taken |
from me, and afterwards an assignment there
on, purporting to be in my name, was forged.
also hereby notify you, that within sixty |
days after the date Of the last publication of
this notice, to b. publishe1 for six successive
weeks, commencing December 18th, 1862,
shall apply to the Commissioner of the General
Land Office to disregard and set aside, @ fraud
ulent and void, the assignment OF said Warrant
TO you, and will file proof Of the facts annexed
In the foregoing - 70 the validity Of the assign
nent. % that If you have any good cause to
show why patent should be issued in your IA
vor, such showing may be made at the ONCE
Aforesaid, at Warrington City, D. O., on or be-
fore the time above mentioned, a. Ishall claim
In adjudication upon my application BY said Of.
ice on the merits Of the case, and shall demand
he said Warrant - my lawful property. Should
you not make such showing, pursuant to this
notice, shall demand the Warrant, asking that
rour failure to answer shall DO taken Pre- Goa
fesss in favor of such demand.
THOMAS NESBlTT, IN.
Decembsr IL, 1069-7w. Prs fee, 70.