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Whereas Dwight R. Adams of Narragansett in the county of Kent and
State of Rhode Island, George Barnum Marshall Sr. of North Kingstown in the
county of Washington and said state and William H. Fields Jr. of
North Kingstown in the county of Newport and your state are appointed
commissioners under Chapter 800 of the Public laws, passed at the
January session AD 1881 of said state entitled An Act to abolish the
tribal authority and tribal relations of the Narragansett tribe of
Indians And before entering upon the performance of their duties
were sworn in the forms of act and engaged to the faithful
discharge their duties And whereas said commissioners
after the do post and plot mentioned in section 6 of said act had been
recorded 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 advised the lands assigned to the said state at Providence
on said act into lots or parcels in such manner as were deemed by
them likely to facilitate the convenient sale thereof and gave
notice that said lands were to be sold at public auction commencing
on Tuesday the eleventh day of July AD 1882 at ten oclock in the
forenoon at or near the Charlestown Meeting House in said town of
Charlestown by advertisement in the "Weekly Weekly" and the
Narragansett hereafter this notice was printed published in the county
of Washington in the "Providence Daily Journal" and the "Providence
Evening News" newspapers published in the city of Providence
and in the "Newport Mercury" a newspaper published in the
city of Newport for month days prior to the time of
said sale And whereas said commissioners at said time
and place and at an adjournment of said sale of which said
commissioners gave public verbal notice at the place where
such sale had been last previously notified to the hand
the time and place to which said sale was adjourned for here
in behalf of said state gave said sale of said lands to public
auction to the highest bidder therefore And whereas of said
adjournment a private sale my to not the eleventh day of July AD
1882 (or 9 June) on a certain plot entitled "Indian Reservation
Lot 7" surveyed and platted by me [?] whereas said
plat is the by referenced in the records of land evidence in said
town of Charlestown and which said lot contains one (1)
acre plus sold to Mr William H. Perry of Charlestown for the sum
of thirty ($30) Dollars the being the highest bidder therefore which
said sum has since been received by said commissioners
Now know Ye That the State of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations for and in consideration of said sum of thirty Dollars
received as aforesaid over by these presents grant bargain sell
alienate enfeoff and convey to said William H. Perry his heirs and
assigns said lot no 9 (nine) herein before described To have
and to hold the same to him said William H. Perry his heirs and
assigns forever In testimony whereof Samuel Lothrop General
Treasurer of said for and in behalf of said state by virtue of the
authority conferred upon him by the said act above of all other
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Authorities in this behalf enabling him, has hereunto affixed the name
and seal of said state, this eleventh day of August AD eighteen hundred
and eighty two
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Samuel P. Collett
L.S.
By Samuel Clark
General Treasurer
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County, ss.
Date of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County, ss.
For Providence in
said county, on this eleventh day of August AD 1882, personally
before me, Samuel Clark, General Treasurer of said state, else
acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be the free and voluntary
act and deed of said state and his free act and voluntary, as aforesaid
individually sworn in his capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid,
Samuel P. Collett
Notary Public
Approved August 11th 1882 Samuel P. Collett Attorney General
Received for record August 22nd 1882 at 6 oclock PM
and recorded by George G. Coomes Town Clerk
I Whereas Day Knight R. Adams of Warwick in the county of Kent in
and State of Rhode Island, George Carmichael of Rightborough in
the county of Washington and said state and William H. Sheffield
of Newport in the county of Newport and said state, were appointed
commissioners under chapter 800 of the Public laws passed at the
January session AD 1881 of said state entitled An Act to abolish the
tribunal court and tryal of selections of the Narragansett Tribe of Indians
and providing relating upon the performance of their duties while in the
said commission of said act were engaged to the faithful discharge of their
duties
Which whereas being duly convened after the survey and plat
completed in month of June of said year had been received in the office of the
Town clerk of the town of Peace and Quiet in said county of Washington
pursuant to the order of the supreme Court of said state, divided the lands
assigned to the said state as provided in said act into lots or parcels, in such
numbers as was deemed by them likely to facilitate the convenient
sale thereof, and gave notice that said lands were to be sold at a public
sale on coming on tuesday the eleventh day of July AD 1882 at ten
oclock in the afternoon, at office of the Indian Treaty House in said
town of Charlestown by advertisement in the " Westerly Weekly" and
"The Narragansett Herald" two newspapers published in the
county of Washington in the Providence Daily Journal" and the
"Providence Evening News" two newspapers published in the
city of Providence and in the New port Mercury a newspaper
published in the city of Newport for more than thirty days prior
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