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said State this 11th (eleventh) day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and eighty two
signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Saml P. Collett
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
By Samuel Leland
General Treasurer
L. S.
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County ss
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County ss
on Providence in said county, on this
(eleventh) 11th day of August A.D. 1882, personally appeared before
me Samuel Leland, General Treasurer of said State, and acknowledged
the following instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed
of said State, and this his free and voluntary act and deed individually
and in his capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid
Saml P. Collett
Notary Public
Approved, August 11th/82 Saml P. Collett Attorney General
Received for record Aug 22nd 1882 at 11 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by George L. Cross Town Clerk
Whereas Dwight N. Adams of Warwick in the county of Kent and
State of Rhode Island, George Haskell Esq. of Wickford in the
county of Washington and said State and William H. Shuffleton Esq.
of Newport in the county of Newport and said State were appointed
commissioners under Chapter 114 of the Public Laws passed at
the January Session A.D. 1880 of said State, entitled "act to abolish
the tribal authority and tribal relations of the Narragansett
tribe of Indians" and before entering upon the performance of
their duties under the provisions of said act were charged to
faithfully discharge their duties. Whereas whereas the said
commissioners after the report and plan mentioned in section
6 of said act had been received in the office of the Town Clerk
of the town of Charlestown in said county of Washington,
pursuant to the order of the Supreme Court of said State,
divided the lands assigned to the State as provided in said
act into lots or parcels in such manner as more deemed by them
likely to facilitate the advantageous sale thereof and have
noted that said lands may be sold at public auction common
sale on Tuesday the eleventh day of July A.D. 1882 at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon at or near the Wardland Meeting House in said
town of Charlestown by advertisement in the "Narragansett Herald"
and the "Narragansett Herald" two newspapers published in
the county of Washington, in the "Providence Daily Journal" and
the "Christian Herald" newspapers published in the
city of Providence, and in the "Newport Mercury" a newspaper
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Published in the city of Newport for more than Thirty days
prior to the time of said sale! And whereas spite controversies
at said time and place, and at an adjournment of said sale of
which said commissioners gave public notice at the place
where said sale had been last previously attempted to be made,
of the time and place to which said sale was adjourned for an
interval of one month, said sale did make sale of said parcels of land to
the highest bidder however whereat of said adjournment
of said sale, on the twelfth day of August A.D. 1882 Lot No 3 (Three)
on a map of entitled Indian Reservation, Per First survey and sale
probably by Me. [?] whereas said plot is to be recorded in the notes
of land evidence in said town of Charlestown and which said lot
contains eighty four hundredths part of an acre, now sell to William
H. Perry of said Charlestown the sum of fifty Three Dollars the
being the highest bidder therefore, which said sum has since been
received by said commissioners. Said Perry has the state
of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for and in consideration
of said sum of fifty Three Dollars received as a purchase money due
by these presents, grant bargain sell aliense, enfeoff and convey
to said William H. Perry his heirs assigns forever, said Lot No 3 (Three)
hereinbefore described: To have and to hold the same to
him said William H. Perry his heirs and assigns forever,
In testimony whereof, Samuel Clark, General Treasurer of said state
for and in behalf of said state by virtue of the authority conferred
upon him, on this day said act and of all other authority in this behalf
enabling him, has executed and affixed the same and seal of said
state this eleventh day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and eighty
signed, sealed and delivered
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
Providence Plantations
By Samuel Clark
General Treasurer
in presence of
Saml P. Colt
L.S.
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Providence County to wit. I, on Providence in said county, on this
eleventh day of August A.D. 1882 personally appeared before me one
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 the this free and voluntary act and deed executed solely and in
his capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid.
B. M. Bosworth Per
Attorney Public
Approved August 11th 1882 Saml P. Colt Attorney General
Received for record Aug 22nd 1882 at 6 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George Robison Town Clerk
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