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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.
Wm H. Montgomery
Notary Public
Approved August 11th 1882 Samuel Platt Attorney General
Received for record Nov 24 1882 at 8 o'clock 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
Richmond in the county of Washington, John Gage state and William
H. Sheffield, Jr. of New Hartford in the county of New London and said
state, were appointed commissioners under chapter 807 of the
Public laws passed at the January session A.D. 1881 of said
state, entitled "An act to abolish the tribal and other authority over 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 o'clock in the forenoon, at or near the Rhode Island 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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Journal" and the Providence Evening Press" 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
conducting said public sale notified all the place where such
sale held had been lawfully notified to be had, of the time and
place for said sale said sale was adjudged fair and in behalf of said
state made sale of said lands by public auction to the highest
bidder thereof; And Whereas at said sale, on or on the 11th
eleventh day of August A.D. 1882, lot No (six) on a certain plat
entitled "Rhode Island State, Cedar Swamp" to be recorded in the records
of land evidence in said town of Charlestown and Rhode Island, said
lot containing nearly six (6) acres was sold to Perry Hazard
of said Charlestown to the sum of four (4) dollars being
the highest bidder thereof, which said sum has since been
received by said commissioners; Now Therefore, That the
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, for and in
consideration of said sum of four (4) dollars received as
aforesaid does by these presents grant bargain sell alien
convey and confirm to said Perry Hazard his heirs and
assigns, said lot No (six) described herein before described,
to have and to hold the same, to said Perry Hazard his
heirs and assigns, forever. In Testimony whereof Samuel
Lodge General Treasurer of said state and in behalf of said
state by virtue of the authority conferred upon him by said act
and all other authorities the said seal shall attaching here, has
hereunto affixed the name and seal of said state this 11th eleven
day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and eighty two.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of State of Rhode Island and
Saml P. Colt Providence Plantations
By Samuel Lodge
L.S. 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 Lodge General Treasurer of said state and
acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be the free and voluntary
act and deed of said State and this free and voluntary act and deed
individually, and in his capacity of General Treasurer as aforesaid
W. M. Boggs [?]
Notary Public
Approved August 11 1882 Saml Lodge & Notary General
Received for rec'ng Nov 24 1882 at 4 dol & tax
and recorded by George L. Coone Town Clerk
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