The following is the text of the contract document between Elias T. Langham, Surveyor of the Public Lands in Illinois and Missouri, and Joseph C. Brown, U. S. Deputy Surveyor, for the survey of town and village lots in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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Articles of Agreement had, made, and concluded, the fifteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty five, between Elias T. Langham Surveyor of the public lands in Illinois and Missouri, acting for and in behalf of the United States of the one part, and Joseph C. Brown of the County of Saint Louis, and State of Missouri of the other part, witnesseth: That the said Joseph C. Brown for and in consideration of the terms, provisions and covenants, herein after expressed and according to the true intent and meaning thereof, doth hereby covenant and agree, with the said Elias T. Langham in his capacity aforesaid, that he the said Joseph C. Brown will under his own personal and immediate superintendance and not by sub-contract, execute the following described surveying, situate in the County of St. Louis and State of Missouri, agreeably to the laws of the United States, and such instructions as may be given to him by the said Elias T. Langham, Viz: He will survey the Town and out lots of the Town (now City) of Saint Louis, and the lots of the common fields attached thereto, which have been confirmed by the laws of the United States and have not heretofore been surveyed, and he will also survey the out boundaries of the Town, and of the several common fields, either in separate parcels, or in one general survey, according as he may be instructed by the said Langham, and the said Joseph C. Brown further covenants and agrees that he will complete the aforesaid surveying and make returns to the office of the Surveyor of the lands of the United States in Illinois and Missouri within six months from the date hereof, his field notes and a separate plat of each lot and block, showing the proper connection in every case with the adjoining and adjacent lots and blocks. And the said Elias T. Langham covenants and agrees in his capacity aforesaid, that on the completion of the work in the manner aforesaid, there shall be paid to the said Joseph C. Brown as a full compensation for his own personal services and expenses, at the rate of six dollars per day, from the time he shall commence work, until the surveys and returns aforesaid are completed, and also, all other necessary expenses, provided the Surveys and returns shall be approved of by the Surveyor of the lands of the United States, in Illinois and Missouri. In witness whereof, the parties to this agreement, hereunto set their hands & seals in duplicate, signed at St. Louis in the State of Missouri, this fifteenth day of September 1835.
{signed} E. T. Langham (seal)
{signed} Jos C. Brown (seal)
Witness: William Milburn
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Source Reference: Missouri Contracts 1815-1843, pages 313-315,
Missouri Department of Natural Resources microfiche location: 720/3303A4
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Transcribed by Steven E. Weible
