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authority conferred upon him by said act and of all other authorities
in this behalf enabling him hereunto to affix the name and
seal of said State this eleventh day of August eighteen hundred
and eighty two.
Signed sealed and delivered
in my presence of
Samuel Plott
S S
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
By Samuel Clark
General Treasurer
Date of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
Providence County to
wit: On Providence in said county on this
eleventh day of August AD 1882 personally appeared before me
Samuel Clark General Treasurer of said state and acknowledged
the foregoing instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed
of said State and his free and voluntary act and deed individually
bound in his capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid
Samuel Clark
Samuel Plott
Notary Public
Approved Aug. 11th 1882 Samuel Plott Attorney General
Received for record Aug. 11th 1882 at 11 oclock AM
and recorded by George B Cross Town Clerk
Whereas Dwight R. Colgrove of Narragansett in the county of
Kent, Samuel Dallet of North Kingstown George Carmichael pr. of
Westerly and in the said county of Washington and said state land
William H. Sheffield pr. of Newport in the county of Newport
and said state said persons were appointed commissioners under chapter
50 of the Public Laws passed at the January Session AD 1880
of said state entitled An Act to abolish the big top authority and
tribal relations of the Narragansett tribe of Indians one
before entering upon the performance of their duties under the
provisions of said act must engage in the faithful discharge of
their duties; and
And whereas said commissioners after having
executed plot and plat mentioned in section 6 of said act have
worked in the office of the pr. gen Clerk of the town of Charlestown
in said county Washington pursuant to the order of the
Supreme Court of said state divided the lands assigned to the
said state as portrayed in said plot into 5 parcels in such
manner as was deemed by them likely to facilitate the
disposition of said lands and gave notice that said land parcels would
be sold at public auction commencing on Tuesday the eleventh day
of June AD 1882 at ten oclock in the forenoon on the dates
indicated hence public notice said town of Charlestown by advertisement in the
"Weekly Weekly" and the "Narragansett Herald" and newspapers
published in the county of Washington in the Providence Daily Journal
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and "the Providence Evening News" thus two newspapers published in the
city of Providence, and in the "Newport Mercury" a newspaper published
in the city of Newport for more than thirty days prior to the time of
said sale.
And Whereas said commissioners did set a time and
place, and met at an appointment of said sale, which said commissioners
were public well known time and place, where such sale had been last
previously notified to be held, of the time and place to which said
sale adjourned, for and in behalf of said state did make sale of
said lands, at public sale to the highest bidders therefore.
And Whereas at said sale, on the eleventh day of August, No. 1882
lot marked "Omnibus" on a certain plat entitled "Indian Reservation
Net side" surveyed and platted by Mr. J. Greene, which said plat is
to be received in the records of said town in said town of Charlestown
and which said lot contains one hundred (100) acres was sold to Charles
Burdick of said Charlestown for the sum of ten (10) Dollars being
the highest bidder therefore which said sum has since been received
by and compositiones.
Now therefore, be it known to all, that the State of
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for and in consideration
of said sum of ten dollars received as aforesaid, does by these
presents grant bargain sell alien convey and confirm to and to paid
Charles Burdick his heirs and assigns, said lot "Omnibus" herein
before described.
To have and to hold the same to him
and his heirs and assigns forever.
Signed, sealed and delivered
In presence of
Saml P. Bott
Sam Plot
L. S.
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
by Samuel Gaskell
General Treasurer
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County to wit
On this eleventh
day of August A.D. 1882 personally appeared before me Samuel
Gaskell General Treasurer of said state and acknowledged to me
the foregoing instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of
said state and his free act and voluntary act and deed individually
and in his capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid.
Saml P. Bott
Samuel Gaskell
Notary Public
Approved August 11th 1882 Saml P. Bott Attorney General
Received for record August 11th 1882 at 11 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George A. Gordon Town Clerk
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