SECTION V

PROPERTY OWNERS RECEIVE DEEDS TO ANGELS LAND

ANGELS CAMP. The first of local property owners who for
decades have been paying taxes on land actually owned by the
federal government were to receive title to their property last
night.

At the City Council meeting, the five landowners were to
receive quit-claim deeds from the city and the federal government,
which until recently was the rightful owner of the land.

The parcels in question were created when old mines, with
federally-owned claims, were gradually worked out and broken up for
sale.

Mine owners apparently never went through the formality of
patenting the land before they sold it. The buyers built homes on
the land and paid taxes on it.

The problem came to light, some three years ago, when a local
surveyor, trying to determine title for a land division he had
surveyed, found out the property still was federally owned and
under jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Land Management.

BLM officials agreed to cooperate to make sure the land became
the legal property of those who had purchased it from the mines,
however, an Act of Congress was necessary to clear the way.

Congressman Norm Shumway introduced the necessary legislation
and it was passed by Congress last year.

The legislation turned title of the land over to the City of
Angels Camp, which in turn is issuing quit-claim deeds to the
property owners.

A total of about 80 acres involving 20 plots of land are
involved.

From the Calaveras (California) Enterprise.


LAND PATENT STOPS BIDDING AT SHERIFF SALE

Robert Deardorff of Indianapolis, Ind. had filed a DECLARATION
OF LAND PATENT with a certified copy of the original patent. In a
Sheriff's Sale, which took place last August, Mr. Deardorff and a
witness went to the Sheriff's Sale and met with the sheriff. He
had previously warned the sheriff that if he went ahead with the
Sheriff's Sale, he would go to the U.S. Attorney and swear out a
warrant for his arrest for Criminal Trespass on his Land Patent.
However, the sheriff's counsel advised him to go ahead with the
Sheriff's Sale anyway. So, on the day of the sale and while he and
a witness were in the sheriff's office, he called the Federal Clerkof Courts and told him what was happening.

The Federal court Clerk told Mr. Deardorff that, if the
sheriff went ahead and sold the property, with a Land Patent on it,
that inside of three days, there would be a U.S. Marshall there to
arrest the sheriff.  Mr. Deardorff then told the sheriff this, word
for word.

Later, at the sale, the sheriff told the bidders, including
the bank's attorney, that there was a Land Patent on the property
and that if they bought it, they could never be able to get a clear
title and would never be able to get a loan on the land. As a
result, no one bid. Under Indiana Law, when no bids are placed on
a property, the property reverts back to the owner after 4 p.m. the
same day. No new Sheriff's Sale was ever scheduled and there is no
pending action of any kind in the courts. (Robert Deardorff, 7002
N. Graham Rd., #128 Indianapolis, IN. 46220; Phone (317)325 2505).