HOMESTEAD
Application, No. 1824
LAND OFFICE at, New Orleans Louisiana, November 18”, 1870
I, Henry Gordon of St. Helena, Louisiana, do hereby apply to enter, under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved May 20, 1862, entitled “An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain” the NE ¼ of fr’ [fractional] NE ¼ of Section No. 8, in Township No. 3 Three South of Range No. Five 5 East containing 35.92, thirty-five and 92/100 Acres in the Greensburg Dist, La.
LAND OFFICE at New Orleans, Louisiana
November 18th, 1870
I, Charles Barnard, REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE, do hereby certify that the above application is for Surveyed Lands of the class which the applicant is legally entitled to enter under the Homestead Act of May 20, 1862, and that there is no prior, valid, adverse right to the same.
Charles Barnard [signature], Register