DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

ASSIGNMENT OF AGRICULTURAL OR BUSINESS LEASE

1-118-Ind.No.11839.

(a) No assignment draws during the first or last six months of a lease term will convey any preference right.

(b) No assignment will be approved if there is any cash rental or filling fee due and unpaid.

(c) The assignee must be acceptable to this office.

(d) No assignment blanks will be given out. They must be made out and completed by lessee, assignee, bondsmen and lessor before a district farmer.

Lease No. 11839

Allotment No. 1473.

The undersigned hereby certifies on honor that he has personally inspected the land covered by this assignment and that all the repairs and improvements called for by the lease contract have been placed except as follows: _______

STATE OF Washington, COUNTY of Yakima.

The undersigned, lessee of the W1/2SW1/2 Qr., Sec. 4, Twp. 11, R. 19 E.W.M., after having first been duly sworn according to law states that the lease in question was drawn to expire February last, 1935; that owing to conditions over which he has no control he can not longer continue to occupy the land as lessee, that this lease was not originally negotiated with any idea or intention of disposing of same; that he hereby publicly declares that he is delinquent the following repairs and improvements called for by the lease contract ______ that he hereby applies for permission to assign all his right, title and interest, in and to the lease, to Amy Matsushita, of Wapato, Wash., of R.R. No. 1, and that if this application is approved by the lessor and the officer in charge of the Yakima Agency he is to receive for all his interest therein the sum of $1.00, and no more.

Johnson Shimizu [signed]

Subscribed and sworn to before me at Wapato, Washington, the 17th day of February, 1934.

My commission expires Jan. 18, 1935. [Signature]

STATE OF Washington, COUNTY OF Yakima.

We, of Yakima, Yakima County and Wapato, Washington, State of Washington, of R.R. No. _____, in consideration of the benefits arising under the foregoing assignment, and of the sum of one dollar, to each of us in hand paid, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, hereby become sureties for the assignee under this assignment, in accordance with the terms of the original bond, and state that we, and each of us respectively, own and possess property, over and above all debts, liabilities, and legal exemptions, in the amount set opposite our respective names. We hereby bind ourselves, our heirs, administrators and executors, jointly and severally by these presents.

[Signatures], $1500.00 [Signatures] $1500.00

The above-named assignee hereby accepts this assignment and agrees to fulfill all obligations, conditions, and stipulations contained in said lease.

Amy Matsushita [signed]

Subscribed and sworn to before me at Wapato, Washington this 17th day of February, 1934.

My commission expires Jan. 18, 1935.

[Signature] (Notary Public)

We, the undersigned, lessor (or lessors) and bondsmen of lessee herein, hereby consent to the foregoing assignment, releasing the lessee from liability effective from the date of approval of assignment by the officer in charge of the Agency.

[Signatures] (Lessee's Bondsman)

[Signatures] (Lessee's Bondsman)

[Signatures] (Lessor)

STATE OF Washington, COUNTY of Yakima:

Subscribed and sworn to before me at Wapato, Washington this 17th day of February, 1934.

[Signature] (Clerk, District Farmer, or Notary)

My commission expires Jan. 18, 1935.

Yakima Indian Agency, Toppenish, Washington.

February 28, 1934.

I hereby certify on honor that I have this day examined the records of the Yakima Indian Agency and that said records do not show anything delinquent for cash rentals or filing fee.

[Signature] (Agency Clerk)

The foregoing assignment is hereby approved, effective March 1, 1934.

[Signature] (Officer in charge Agency)