The Seward gateway., 1914-07-25
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
 Juneau Alaska. SOLDIERS ADDITIONAL HOMESTEAD ENTRY BY ASSIGNEE

SOIDlEKS - ADDlIlONAl4 iOhT.n END
 ENTRY BY ASSIGNEE
 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO ENTER. Notice is hereby given that George F. smith (male) a resident Of the State of California, and whose pOStOfice address iS no Market street. san Francisco, California, huS filed m thls oInce an application tO enter under sec. S5OO or ZoO' Revised Statutes of the United States. grant ing additional land Co soldiers and sailors who served in the Army or Navy or the Unlteu States during the Civil War. ana an Act or Congress approved May li. 1898 (SO Stat, iO9, entitled An act extending the homestead laws and providing for the right-Of-way for railroads i'm the District Of Alaska. and for other pur- poses O as amended by the Act of March <; IQOS (32 Stat. l0sS). as additional to Homestead Entry No. lil6 made Aug. 26, 1865, by kyhran Horan at Ionia. Michigan Land Oiice, for the - one.half Of SEE One-Quarter Of Sec. go. Town- ship lS North. Range 10 West. cOntalng sOacres that certain piece. parcel and tract or land de scribed aS Amended Y. =. Survey No. 769. and situated on the East shore of NuShagak Bay and approximately 25 chains northwest or EkOOk Point and apprONlmately mtes south of ClarkS Point on Ekook spit anu more par ticularly described as follows to wit:
 Beginning at corner No. in Lat. 5S degrees, iN minutes. 10 seconds north and Long l5S de- greeS X2 minutes OO seconds west an iron pipe inches diameter, 42 inches long. set < Feet m the ground with cross (X) on capped top at cor rect point. marked AS 769 cor. on the side
  R. C. NJ bears A degrees, 5l minutes .. l6oS chains distant on an iron pipe inches m diameter projecting lSincheS above the ground marked U S l.. NJ. k. C. NJ; thence from Sald corner No 1. Var. 9s degrees. co minutes F., west S66 chains Co witness corner to corner NO. 7 NJ C. an iron pipe inches in diameter go inches long set feet in the ground Wlth cross (X) on capped top at correct point marked M, V; on the side facing the river and w. c. A, =. 76e corner , on the side facing the claim, lOio chains to corner No M. C. at line of mean high tide on east side of NuShagak Bay, a tldal stream, at which point it Is impractleaoie tO establish corner owing 70 it's haOihty 10 destruction by drift-wOOd and ice, but rom which corner, witness corner to Satd corner No. M C. bears east l.S2 chains distant and Ekooi Poiut bears south 4l degrees. a minutes east. approximately Sj chains distant; thence from true corner No NJ. C. meandering along the line Of mean high tide on the east shore or Nushagak Bay north SS degrees minutes west 7GO chains north 33 degrees i5 minutes west chains. north s8degreeS. 2l minutes west ., l3 chains tO corner No. 8 M C. which it IS im- praCt icable to establish owing tO US naOllty 70 destruction by drift-wOod and ice put rom which witness corner to corner No. < M' C, pears east l. 17 chains distant; thence from said true corner No. M. C. east l.0 chains witness cor. to cor. NO. NJ. C.. an iron pipe inches m diameter. S6 inches long, Set2 feet Tn the ground with cross (X) on capped top at correct pOlht marked M. c. on the side facing the river and w. C. X. .. 76g. corner on the side faclng the claim, 2G 64 chains to corner No. d. an Iron plpe inches in diameter. 36 inches long. set rect in the ground with cross (x) on capped top at correct point marked A. :. 76q corner on the side facing the claim from which U. -. lI. M. No. 76g an iron pipe inches in diameter, rect long, marked U. S L. M. No. 169 bears SS de- grees 2i minutes east, 9.66 chains distant cor ner No. original U. =. Survey No 16e an iron pipe inches in diameter, projecting lS inches above the ground marked = 769 corner bears north degrees, 90 minutes east, S.22 chains distant. corner No. 3. U. =. Survey No. 557, m iron pipe inches in diameter projecting lS inches above the ground marked 55I-S bears N S3 degrees, OS minutes k. 5i.W chains distant: thence south l5.63 chains to corner No. I to place of beginning. containing 2o. l4 acres within the District of Alaska which IS more fully described as to meteS ana bounds Dy the official plat and field notes on file in this office.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely said piece. parcel. tract of land or any part thereof so described, surveyed. plated and applied for are hereby notified that unless their adverse claims are filed under oath. setting fortE the nature and extent thereof in this office during the period of posting and publication. that IS to say sixty days from the date hereof or within thirty days thereafter. will be barred by virtue ot law and regulations thereunder.
 C. E. WALKER. Register.
 First publication June IT, 1914
 Last publication August 26 1914,