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 610 FBDSBAL BBFOBTEB. �dred and sixty-eight, and of the state of lowa the twenty- second. �"Samuel Merrill. �"By the Governor. "Ed. Wright, �"Secretary of State. �"I certify that the foregoing deed is recorded in vol. 1, page — . "C. C. Carpenter, �"Eegister State Land Office." �At the June session, 1868, of the boardof supervisors, Mr. Savery, who was associated with McKay, reported to them the Buccess of McKay under the contract of sixteenth May, 1863, and demanded a settlement under said contract; but no settlement was effected, and within a few months after* wards the county of Cerro Gordo granted ail of said lands to the McGregor & Sioux City Eailway Company ; before doing so, however, taking from said oompany a bond of indemnity in words as f ollows : �"Know ail men by these presents, that the McGregor & Sioux City Eailway Company does hereby covenant and agree to and with the county of Cerro Gordo, state of lowa, in considera- tion of said county entering into a contract with said com- pany to convey to said company certain lands, held and owned by said county as indemnity for swamp lands, to pro- cure said company to construct a railway in said county; said McGregor & Sioux City Eailway Company will, if said contract is ratified by and held for that purpose, and said lands are conveyed to said company, as specified in said contract, hold said county free, harmiess and exempt from ail cosfcs, expanses and liabilities to the American Emigrant Company for any claim or pretended claim, right or demand said American Emigrant Company may have against said connty for any part or parcel of said lands. �"Witness the signature of said company, hereto affixed, this August 31, 1868. �[Stamp.] "McGregor & Sioox City E. W. Co., �"By John Lawler, "Vice President and General Agent of said Company." ����