Description: Begin at a lime stone at the intersection of the eastern edge of Little Rock Street with the northern edge of South Fork Street, the south-west corner of this lot and of Block number eight.
Thence East along the southern boundary of this lot and the northern edge of South Fork Street; at two hundred and seven feet and seven inches a lime stone, the south-east corner of this lot, and the south-west corner of the lot of John Baptiste Pratte senior, survey number one hundred and fifty two.
Thence north five degrees west along the eastern boundary of this lot and the western boundary of the lot of J. B. Pratte senior, at two hundred feet and ten inches a lime stone, the north-east corner of this lot and the north-west corner of the lot of J. B. Pratte senior, and also a corner of the lot of Jacques Courtois' legal representatives, survey number one hundred and fifty five.
Thence north eighty seven degrees and fifteen minutes west along the northern boundary of this lot and the southern boundary of the lot of Jacques Courtois, at two hundred and one feet and three inches a lime stone on the eastern edge of Little Rock Street, the north-west corner of this lot and the south-west corner of the lot of Jacques Courtois.
Thence south two degrees and forty minutes east along the western boundary of this lot and the eastern edge of Little rock street, at two hundred and ten feet the beginning corner.
Surveyor's Office, St. Louis March 24th 1845
The foregoing plat and description of survey numbered one hundred and fifty one of Sainte Genevieve and New Bourbon lands are correctly copied from pages 270 and 271 of the Book of record of the said Surveys in this Office.
Silas Reed
Surveyor of the public lands in the
States of Illinois and Missouri
To F. R. Conway Esquire
U. S. Recorder of land titles
St. Louis, Mo.
Certificate No. 33
Office of the Recorder of Land titles
Saint Louis 3rd of May 1848
It is hereby certified that under the provisions of the act of Congress approved on the 13th day of June 1812, entitled "An act making further provision for settling the claims to land in the Territory of Missouri" and the two acts of Congress supplementary or having reference thereto, approved on the 26 May 1824, and the 27th January 1831, The legal representatives of Francois Vallé, have been confirmed in their claim of one by one arpent of land, in the village of Sainte Genevieve, and that the same has been regularly surveyed in block numbered eight of the said village, being in Township 38 north of the base line, range 9 east of the 5 principal meridian, as appears from the foregoing plat and description of Survey numbered 151, of the said village, authenticated and returned to this office, on the 24 March 1845, by Silas Reed, Surveyor of the public lands in the States of Illinois & Missouri, to wit: Beginning at the Southwestern corner of the block and of the lot. and thence running East along South Fork street 207 feet and 7 inches to the Southeastern corner of the lot. Thence along a line of Survey No. 152, N5°W, 200 feet and 10 inches to the Northeastern corner of the lot. Thence N87°15'W along a line of Survey No. 155, 201 feet 3 inches to the Northwestern corner of the lot on Little Rock Street - and thence S2°40'E along Little Rock Street 210 feet to the beginning, all in English measure.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name the day above written.
Adolph Renard
U. S. Recorder of land titles in
the State of Missouri
Recorded at page 34
of the Book of confirmation certicates
Transcriber's note:
Little Rock Street is now South 2nd Street
South Fork Street is now South Gabouri Street
(transcribed from Missouri State Land Survey scan file Y0820077.pdf)
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transcribed by Steven E. Weible
