Land Grant by Act of Congress approved March 3, 1863, entitled an act for a Grant of Lands to the State of Kansas in alternate sections to aid in the Construction of certain Railroads and Telegraphs in said State of Kansas accepting said Grant. Approved February 9, 1864.

Consideration – Act of Legislature. Dated. May 19,1873. Filed for record May 1, 1880 and recorded in Volume “V” of Deeds at page 216 of the records of Butler County, Kansas.

Consideration -- $4198.40. Dated November 29, 1876. Filed for record June 1, 1877 and recorded in Volume “O” of Deeds at page 198 of the records of Butler County, Kansas.

Description – All of Section No. Seventeen (17) in Township No. Twenty four (24) South, of Range No. Three (3) East of the Sixth Principal Meridian containing Six Hundred and forty (640) acres more or less, according to the United States Survey.

DEED RECITES: Reserving however to the said Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company all that portion of the land hereby conveyed (if there be any such) which lies within lines drawn parallel with the fifty feet on each side distant from the center line of its Railroad as now constructed or hereafter to be constructed and any greater width where necessary permanently to include all their cuts embankments and other works necessary to secure and protect the main line of said Railroad.

WRITTEN IN THE BODY OF DEED: The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, a corporation doing business under the laws of the State of Kansas and Thomas Nickerson, Oliver W. Peabody and George C. Lord, F. H. Peabody, Joseph Nickerson and A. I. Benyon.