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Deed No. 5720 New Series

To all to Whom these Presents shall Come:

The Central Pacific Railroad Company a Corporation fully incorporated and organized under
the laws of the State of California and James OB Gun of the City and County of San
Francisco, State of California and Silas W Sanderson of the City and County of San
Francisco and State of California Trustees of all the lands of the said Central Pacific Railroad
Company lying in the States of California and Nevada and the Territory of Utah which remained
unsold on the first day of October A.D. 1870. send Greeting

Whereas on the first day of October A.D. 1870 the said Central Pacific Railroad Company
conveyed all its lands lying in the States of California and Nevada and the Territory of Utah then
unsold of which the lands hereinafter described were and are a part to Charles Crocker and Silas
W. Sanderson to hold in trust as security for the payment of Ten Thousand Bonds for the sum of
One Thousand Dollars each dated on the first day of October A.D> 1870 and payable twenty years
from date with interest at the rate of six per cent per annum made and issued by the said Central Pacific Railroad Company.

And Whereas said Deed of Trust among other matters provided that the said Central Pacific
Railroad COmpany should have the sole and exclusive control and management of said lands with full
power to make sales of the same upon such terms and conditions as might from time to time be agreed
upon between the said Railroad Company and the said Trustees; and that when such sales had been
made and the purchase money fully paid the said Company and the said Trustees should unite in a
conveyance in fee simple of the lands so sold to be the purchaser or purchasers thereof which conveyance
should absolutely and forever release the lands so conveyed from any and all lien or incumbrance
for or on account of said Bonds or any other dent or obligation of the said Railroad Company:

And Whereas on the 14th day of August 1871 Charles Crocker on of the Trustees being
about to depart from the State of California to be absent for an indefinite period did resign his trust
under aid conveyance of the first of October 1870; and whereas on the 15th day of Agust 1871
the aid Silas W Sanderson the remaining Trustee under said conveyance did pursuant to the terms
of his trust nominated Mark Hopkins of the City of Sacrament and state of California to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of said Charles Crocker; and whereas on the 21st day of August
1871 the board of Directors of the said Central PAicfic Railroad Company pursuant to the terms of
said trust did ratify and approve said nomination and did appoint said Mark Hopkins to fill said vacant:

And Whereas subsequently to wit on the 29th day of March 1878 said Mark Hopkins
depart this life; and whereas on the second day of April 1878 Silas W Sanderson the surviving
Trustee under said conveyance did pursuant to the terms and conditions thereof nominate David
D Colton of the City and County of San Francisco and State of California to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of said Mark Hopkins; and whereas on the third day of April 1878 the Board of Directors of said Central Pacific Railroad Company pursuant to the terms of said conveyance did
ratify and approve said nomination and did appoint said David D. Colton to fill said vacancy:

And Whereas subsequently to wit on the ninth day of October 1878 said David D Colton departed this life and whereas on the twenty-eighth day of October 1878 Silas W. Sanderson the
surviving Trustee under said conveyance did pursuant to the terms and conditions thereof nominate
James OB Gunn of the City of Oakland and County of Alameda and State of California to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of said Davi D. Colton; and whereas on the thirteenth day of November
1878 the board of Directors of said Central Pacific Railroad Company pursuant to the terms of said
conveyance did ratify and approve said nomination and did appoint said James OB Gunn to fill
said vacancy:

And whereas the said Railroad COmpany has sold the lands hereinafter described pursuant
to the foregoing conditions to N.H. Karchner
for the sum of four hundred (400)
Dollars which sum has been by him
fully paid to the said James OB Gunn and Silas W Sanderson Trustees as aforesaid:

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