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unities, and appurtenances, of whataoever nature, .thereunto belonging, unto the said John Baptiste Ladner, end to his	'
heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony whereof, I, Calvin Coolldge, President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Clven under my hand, at the City of Washington, the second day of March in the year of our Lord^rte thousand nine huodred and twenty-six and of the Independence bf the United States the one hundred and fiftieth.
(Seal)	By	the President:	Calvin Coolldge
By Viola B. Pugh, Secretary.
M. P. LeRoy
(Seal)	Recorder	of the General Land Office.
When the actual donations were made in the I860's, Elolse received the
following grant.
Know all men by these( presents that I, John Baptiste ,
Ladnlcr, of the county of ftancock in the State aforesaid, for and in consideration of th^ love land goodwill jind affection which I have and doth beai^'towards my daughter,
Eloulse, wife of Louis Groux the County of Jackson in the State aforesaid have given, grafted, conveyed and confirmed and by these presents do freely and voluntarily fcive, grant, conveys and	confirm unto my said daughter, Eloulsfe
and to her heirs	and assslgns forever, a certain lot,
plcre or parcel of land situate lying and being within the limits and county boundaries of the aforesaid Jackson and bounded as follows to wit:
Three hundred and twenty feet fronc, on the North	fart	??*
side of the Bay of Biloxi, by the entire depth of 1 the tract*of land confirmed to me, the said John	^.
Baptiste Ladnler, by the Congress of the United States of Amerlca,on the west by a lot of land given by me to my daughter Arsene (widow Laforce), and on the east by a lot of land given by me to my daughter Louise, wife of Stanislaus Beaugez, together witfi all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurte~ nances unto the	said lot belonging or in any wise ,	?
.apper taining.
to have and to hold the above given, granted and described premises with the	appurtenances unto the said Elolsa, wife	,
of said lxjuis Croux, her heirs and assigns forever, absolutely, without any pecuniary consideration whatever. (Harrison	^
County, Deed Bk. ^^.pp. 474-5.)