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Show -3- and said Declaration of Trust, of the same date, and in pursuance of the authority and direction of said instrument of April 24, 1896, in consideration of the premises and of one dollar to him in hand paid; the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, hereby sells, assigns, transfers, sets over and delivers, to the California Development Company, the Corporation above named, organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey, all the property, contracts and rights now held or controlled by him under said agreement and Declaration of Trust, and all the right, title and interest therein of said Philip Van Vol-kenburgh, and hereby sells, assigns, transfers, sets over and delivers to said corporation the following: First: A certain contract between Guillermo Andrade, a citizen of Ensenada, Lower California, and Samuel W. Fergusson of Alameda, Alameda County, California, made the 21st day of May, 1895 whereby said Andrade agrees to sell and convey to said Fergusson or his assigns, three hundred and fifty thousand acres of land, situated in Lower California, upon certain terms and conditions therein set forth, which said contract was acknowledged in San Francisco May 25, 1895; together with a certain supplementary contract between the same parties dated Mexico, Sept. 18, 1895; together with the interests or rights of Doctor William T. Heffernan of Yuma, A. T. and of Samuel W. Fergusson in said contract and supplemental contract; which said contract and supplement was assigned by said Samuel W. Fergusson to Dr. William T. Heffernan by assignment dated San Francisco, November 1st, 1895, and acknowledged December 23, 1895; and the same were assigned by said William T. Heffernan to Philip Van Volkenburgh, by assignment dated Yuma, May 6th, 1896, and acknowledged |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |