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Whereas Dwight R. Adams of Narragansett in the county of Kent
and State of Rhode Island, George Carmichael of the town of Richmond in
the county of Washington, and William P. Sheffield of
the town of Bristol in the county of Newport and said state were appointed
commissioners under per provisions of the public laws passed at
the January session 1880 of said state, entitling said state to buy lots or
to obtain the 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 engaged to the
faithful discharge of their duties; And Whereas, said
commissioners after the report and 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 Governor Dwight Taft state, divided the lands
assigned to the said state as provided 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 at public auction commencing on Tuesday the
eleventh day of July, A.D. 1882 at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at or
near the South shoulder Meeting house in said town of Charlestown by
advertisement in the "Weekly Herald" and the "Narragansett Times"
two newspapers published in the county of Washington in the
"Providence Daily Journal" and the "Providence Evening Courier" two
newspapers published in the city of Providence, and in the
"Portsmouth 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 appointment of said sale of which each person commissioned
gave public verbal notice at the place where such sale had
been previously notified to be held of the time and place
to which said sale were adjourned for and on behalf of said state
did make sale of said lands at public auction to the highest bidders
thereof; And Whereas at said sales on Tuesday the eleventh day
of July, A.D. 1882, lot 23 in a certain allotment entitled mining
Reservation, containing twenty surveys and fractions by Mr. Greene
which said plat is to be recorded in the records of land evidence in
said town of Charlestown, and which said lot contains twenty seven
(27.60) acres, was sold to Henry Hazard of said Charlestown for
the sum of Two hundred Dollars the highest bidder therefore, which
said sum has since been received by the said commissioners;
Now Know ye that the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
for and in consideration of said sum of Two hundred ($200) dollars received as
aforesaid, does by these presents, grant bargain sell alien convey
and convey to said Henry Hazard his heirs and assigns, said lot 23
hereinbefore described. To have and to hold the same to him said
Henry Hazard his heirs and assigns forever. In testimony whereof
signed Clark, General Treasurer of said state, for and in
behalf of said state, by virtue of the authority conferred upon
him by said act, and of all other authorities in the law incorporated,
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have heremunto affixed the name and seal of said State, this 17th
(seventeenth) day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and eighty two
signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Saml P Colvt
L.S.
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
By Samuel Black
General Treasurer
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County ss
At Providence in said county on
this eleventh day of August A.D 1882 personally appeared before me
Samuel Black General Treasurer of said State and acknowledged
the foregoing instrument to be the 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,
B. M. Robertson
Notary Public
Approved August 11th 1882 Saml P Colvt Attorney General
Received for record Nov 24th 1882 at 10 oclock A.M.
and recorded by Geo E Cross Town Clerk
Whereas Dwight R Adams of Warwick in the county of
Kent and State of Rhode Island George Carmichael of [?] of [?]
in the county of Washington and said state and William H [?]
of Newport in the county of Newport and said state were appointed
commissioners under authority of the Act of the Legislature passed at the
January session A.D 1880 of said state entitled "An Act to establish
the official authority and legal relations of the Narragansett Tribe
of Indians" and before entering upon the performance of their duties
among the provincials of said act were engaged to the faithful discharge
of their duties; And whereas these commissioners after having
the report and plat mentioning in section 6 of said act have been
received in the office of the form 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 as
provided in said act into lots or parcels in such manner as was
deemed by them likely to facilitate the advantages thereof
and gave notice that said lands would be sold at public auction
commencing on tuesday the seventeenth day of July A.D 1882 at
oclock in the evening of a day at the Snedek Knitting Factory in
said town of Charlestown by advertisement in the Eastern Daily Press
and the Narragansett Herald" two newspapers published in
the county of Washington in the Providence Daily Journal"
and "the Providence Evening Press" two newspapers published
in the city of Providence and in the Newport Mercury" a
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