Supreme court of the United States. No. 135. The United States, appellants, vs. John A. Sutter. Appeal from the District court U.S. for the Northern district of California.

604 The United States vs. Satter.
Received for record January 22, 1856, at 3 o'clock and 35 min.
p. m. At the request of J. M. Ramirez, recorded January 23, 1856,
at 11 o'clock and 20 min. a. m.
D. C. BENHAM, Recorder,
By G. M. ODELL, Deputy.
I, W. IT. Wickersham, recorder of Yuba county, hereby certify
that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a deed, with
the certificates of acknowledgment now of record in my office, in
deed book No. 10, on pages 262 and 263 of the records of Yuba
county.
Witness my hand and official seal this 28th day of November, A.
[EL D. 1860.
[SEAL.] D. 1860. W. H. WICKERSHAM,
Recorder, Yuba, Cal' a.
Endorsed: Filed Dec. 15, 1860.
W. H. CHEVERS, Clerk.
575 Exhibit A. P. C., No. 5, filed by claimants.
This indenture, made the twenty-first day of February, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and fifty, between John A. Sutter, cap'n,
Hock Farm, of the first part, and Charles Covilland, Jose Manuel
Ramirez, and Theodore Sicard and John Sampson, of Marysville, of
the second part, witnesseth: That the said party of the first part,
for and in consideration of the sum of four thousand five hundred
dollars, lawful money of the United States of America, to me in hand
paid by the said parties of the second part, at or before the ensealing
and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released,
conveyed, and confirmed, and by these presents doth grant, bargain,
sell, alien, remise, release, convey, and confirm, unto the said parties
of the second part, and to their heirs and assigns forever, all that
piece or parcel of land included in the territory granted to the party
of the first part by the government of California, and situated on the
south side of the river Yuba, bounded as follows: northwardly by
the river Yuba; eastwardly by a line commencing at Yuba river and
running one mile and a half in length, whose course is south
576 of the magnetic pole, and serves as boundary to the Mimal
ranch; westwardly by Feather river; and southwardly by a
straight line, one mile and a half in length, commencing at Feather
river and running east of the magnetic pole, until it joins the eastern
boundary at right angles, and measuring in all one thousand two hundred square acres: together with all and singular the tenements,
hereditaments, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and
remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof, and also all the estate,
right, title, interest, property, possession, claim, and demand whatsoever, as well in law as in equity, of the said party of the first
part, of, in, or to the above-described premises, and every part and
parcel thereof, with the appurtenances. To have and to hold all and