I Joseph SmithofIllCounty, and State ofdo hereby apply for the purchase of theSouth East qrof section numberedTwenty fivein township numberedseven Northof range numberedEight Westof the fourth principal meridian, containingone Hundred & sixty—/100acres according to the returns of the Surveyor General, for which I have agreed with the Register to give at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.
Jos Smith
By
I, WM. G. FLOOD, Register of the Land Office at , Illinois, do hereby certify that the [blank] section, above described, contains [blank] acres, as mentioned; and that the price agreed upon is $1 25 per acre.