Description: Begin at a lime stone, at the intersection of the southern edge of Third street with the eastern edge of Little Rock street, the north-west corner of this lot and of Block number nine.
Thence south six degrees and twenty five minutes east, along the western boundary of this lot and the eastern edge of Little Rock street, at one hundred and ninety two feet and nine inches, a lime stone, the south-west corner of this lot, and the north-west corner of a vacant lot.
Thence north seventy eight degrees east along the southern boundary of this lot, and the northern boundary of the vacant lot, at ninety nine feet the south-east corner of this lot, and the south-west corner of the lot of Nicholas Laplante's legal representatives, survey numbered one hundred and fifty six.
Thence north six degrees and forty five minutes west, along the eastern boundary of this lot, and the western boundary of the lot of Nicholas Laplante, at one hundred and ninety four feet, a lime stone, on the southern edge of Third street, the north-east corner of this lot, and the north-west corner of the lot of Nicholas Laplante.
Thence south seventy seven degrees and ten minutes west along the northern boundary of this lot and the southern edge of Third street; at ninety eight feet and six inches the beginning corner.
Surveyor's Office, St. Louis 29th May 1845
The foregoing plat and description of survey numbered one hundred and fifty nine of Sainte Genevieve and New Bourbon lands are correctly copied from pages 278 & 279 of the Book of Record of the said surveys in this Office.
F. R. Conway
Surveyor of the public lands in the
States of Illinois and Missouri
To the U. S. Recorder of land titles
St. Louis, Missouri
Transcriber's Note:
Third Street is now Merchant Street
Little Rock Street is now South 2nd Street
(transcribed from Missouri State Land Survey scan file Y0820085.pdf)
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transcribed by Steven E. Weible
