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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 A.D. eighteen hundred
and eighty two
Signed, sealed and delivered
In presence of
Samuel P. Collett
S.S.
Date of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County, ss.
Date of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County, ss.
Do Providence in
said county, on this eleventh day of August A.D. 1882, personally
before me, Samuel Clark, General Treasurer of said state, who
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 P.M.
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 A.D. 1880 of said state, entitled A Act to abolish the
tribunal court and tryal of solutions of the Narragansett Tribe of Indians
and providing relating upon the performance of their duties while in
their office said act were engaged until the faithful discharge of their
duties
Which whereas being duly summoned after the deed and plat
qualified in return 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, 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 A.D. 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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To the time of said sale.
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, for the benefit of the highest bidder
which said sale was disposed for, and in behalf of said state did
make sale of said lots of land to the person in the highest bidder there
And whereas at said adjournment of said sale, on Tuesday the eleventh
day of July, A.D. 1882, lots No (eleven) on a certain plat entitled
"Indian Reservation, Fort beach" surveys and platted by M. S. Greene,
which said plat is to be recorded in the records of land evidence in
said town of Charlestown, and which are said to contain approximately
forty nine hundredths of an acre, was sold to William H. Perry said Charlestown
for the sum of twenty nine dollars being the highest bidder
therefore, when said sum has since been received by said commissioners
I now know that the State of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations, for and in consideration of said sum twenty nine
dollars received as a payment, does by these presents, call to grant
bargain, sell, alien, deliver and convey to said William H. Perry this
heir apps assigns, and let lot No (eleven) forever be devoid
to have and to hold the same, to him said William H. Perry this
his heir assigns assign forever
Sign testimony William H. Perry
Samuel Colbath, General Treasurer of said state, for and in behalf
of said state, by virtue of the full authority conferred upon him by said
state, and of all other authorities in him thereby conferred, has
hereunto set his hand and seal of said state this eleventh day
of August A.D. eighteen hundred and eighty two.
Signed, sealed and delivered
In presence of
Sam'l P. Colt
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
By Samuel Colbath
S.S. General Treasurer
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
Providence County Ss.
In Providence in said
county, on this eleventh day of August A.D. 1882 personally
appeared, before me Samuel Colbath General Treasurer of said
state, and acknowledged the following instrument to be the free
and voluntary act and deed of said state and in his free and
voluntary act and deed individually and in his capacity as
General Treasurer as aforesaid,
Sam'l P. Colt
Notary Public
Approved August 11th 1882 Sam'l P. Colt Attorney General
Received for record Aug. 22nd 1882 at 6 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George G. Lowrie Town Clerk
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