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~'}~e State oY Texas, ) In Commissioners' Court, Regular Term,
County of Kerr. ) Second Monday in November, being the
~)eZ 7 10th. day oY November, A. D. 1913.
PJhereas, heretofore, to-wit: On the 7th. day oY Ploy, A. D. 1897, in cause
No. 113b, styled Karr County as. E. C. Kitchens, in the District Court of Brown County,
Texas, said E. C. Kitchens did on his cross-action filed in said cause, recover a judg-
ment against Karr County, conditioned that said E. C. Kitohene, within 20 days from the
date thereof, deposit in the registry of said District Court of Brown County, for the
PlaintifY, Kerr County, his negotiable promissory note by him duly executed, and in sub-
stance as follows:- For the sum of ~ 582.50, of date tfay 7th. 1897, and due and payable
to the order of Kerr County at the office of the County Treasurer of Kerr County in Kerr-
ville, Texas, ten gears aftor its date, with interest from the date thereof et the rate
oY 10~ per annum, payable annually in advance; said noto having been given in payment Yor
that 233 acres aY sub-division No. 88 oY Kerr County School land located in Brown County, ',
Texas, which said 233 scree is pertioularly described in said Decree oY the District Court
of Brown County, above referred to, a certified copy of which said decree is of record at
page 111 of Book 46 of the Records of Deeds for Brown County, Texas, in the office of the
County Clark of said Brown County, and to which said record and the original deoree of
record in Book "D^ pages b85 to 588 of the office of the Clerk of the District Court of
said Brown County, Texas, reference ie made Yor morn complete description of said 233
scree of land;
And whereas on the 13th. day of Iday, 1897, said E. C. Kitohene did comply
with the requirements and conditions of said decree and did deposit, as directed, said
note, and said decree above referred to was on said 13th day oY D4ey, 1897, mado permanent
and Yinal;
And whereas said note was promptly and properly delivered to said Kerr
County, and whereas all interest payments on said. note were made in due and proper time,
and whereas said note was duly paid on its due date, namely i~.y 7th. 1907, and all said
interest payments and principal payments were duly reoeived by the County oY Kerr, and
were properly applied to the Hind to which the law did set aside such funds, and whereas
said Kerr County hea had and understandingly used said Hands and has enjoyed the benefits
arising thereYrom;
And whereas, Kerr County, acting by hor County Judge, the Honorable Lee
Wallaoe, did, on July 1st. 1907, by due and proper release acknowledge payment in Hall oY
said note above referred to, and did release said 233 acres of sub-divieon I]o. 88 oP Kerr
County School land from the lien securing said note:
I7ow therefore, know all inen by these presents, that said Kerr County, acting
by and through its duly authorized and commissioned Agent, namely its Commissioners'
Court, does hereby ratify and confirm said release fully and in ell things and purposes,
and does acaspt the same as the act and deed oY this County, and acknowledges payment to
her in full of all benefits and moneys due from the sale of said land to said E. C.
Kitchens, and does hereby eaknowledge the fee simply title to said land to be duly and
property vested in E. C. Kitchens, hie heirs ~r assign a, and hereby releases any and all
claim of said Kerr County in or to any and all of said 233 acres oY sub-divdsian.:Ho.
BB,above referred to, and the Clerk of this Court is directed to enter this order in the
minutes oY this Court that the same may be and beocuse s part oY the ~eoord oY itr prooeed-
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