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Whereas, Dwight R. Adams of Warwick in the county of Kent
and Date of Wadhams, George Carmichael for Rhode Island in the
county of Washington and said State and William P. Sheffield Esqr.
Servant in the County of Newport and said State, were appointed
commissioners under Chapter 800 of the Public laws passed at
the January session, 1880 of the State entitled An Act to abolish
the tribal Authority and tribal relations of the Management agency of
Indians, and before expiring whom the performance of their duties
under the provisions of said act were engaged to the faithful discharge
of their duties; And whereas, said commissioners, after the
Property and plat having been recognized, in search of said act has 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 indicated in said act into lots or parcels in such manner as
was deemed by them likely to facilitate the advantageous sale
thereof and gave notice that said lands would be sold by public
auction commencing on Tuesday the eleventh day of July, 1882
at 10 am in the presence of at a near the Adeline Hall Meeting
House in said town of Charlestown by advertisement in the Westerly
Weekly and the Providence Journal 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 morning 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 at
said time and place, and at an advertisement of said sale, of
which said commissioners gave verbal notice at the
place where such sale had been last previously notified to be
held, of the time and place to which said sale was postponed
for sale in behalf of said State did make sale of said lands by sale of
public auction the 11th (eleventh) day of July, 1882 but
No 24, on a certain plat entitled "Indian Reservation Settlement land"
surveyed and platted by Mr. Greene, which said plat is to be
recorded in the record of land evidence in said town of Charlestown,
and which said lot contains thirty (30) acres, was sold to
Hazard Perry of said Charlestown for the sum of Six Dollars
he being the highest bidder therefore, which said sum, was paid
in full receipt by said commissioners; Now therefore, it is that
the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, for and
in consideration of said sum of Six Dollars, received as agreed
dies by these presents give, grant, bargain sell, alien convey, enfeoff and
convey to said Perry Hazard his heirs and assigns said lot No 24
described line described here; To have and to hold the same to
said Perry Hazard his heirs and assigns forever.
In testimony whereof, Samuel G. Clarke General Treasurer of
said state, for and on behalf of said state, by virtue of the
authority conferred upon him by said act and of all other
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authorities in this behalf enabling him, has hereunto affixed the
name and seal of said State, this 11th (eleventh) day of August A.D.
eighteen hundred and eighty two.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Samuel Colt
L.S.
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
By Samuel Clark
General Treasurer
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Providence County ss
on this eleventh day of August A.D. 1882, personally appeared
before me, Samuel Clark General Treasurer of said state and
acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his free and voluntary
act and deed of said state and his free and voluntary act and
deed individually and in his capacity as General Treasurer
as aforesaid.
H. M. Montgomery
Notary Public
Approved August 11th 1882 Samuel Platt Attorney General
Received for record Nov 24 1882 at 8 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George L. Kepnes Town Clerk
Whereas Dwight R. Adams of Warwick in the county
of Kent and State of Rhode Island, George Carmichael of
Newport in the county of Newport in said state, and William
H. Sheffield, Jr. of New Bedford in the county of New Bedford and said
state, were appointed commissioners under chapter 808 of the
laws newly passed at the January session A.D. 1882 of said
state, entitled "An act to abolish the tribal and other rights tribal
relations of the Narragansett tribe of Indians," and before
entering upon the performance of their duties under the provisions
of said act, were engaged to the full discharge of their duties.
And whereas, said commissioners before the record land plat
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 said state as provided in
said act into lots & parcels, in such manner as was deemed by
them likely to facilitate the advantageous sale thereof, and gave
notice that said lands would be sold at public auction
commencing on Tuesday the eleven days of July A.D. 1882
at ten oclock in the forenoon, at or near the Shady Meeting
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
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