8/31/1883 · DEED · book 11 page 188 doc 4844

188 Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Samuel P. Colt L.S. State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Providence County Ss this eleventh day of August AD 1882 personally appeared before me Samuel Clark General Treasurer of said State and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of said state and his true and voluntary act and deed individually and in his capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid. B. M. Bosworth Deputy Public Notary Approved August 11th 1882 Saml P. Colt Attorney General Received for recording Aug 12th 1883 at 1 oclock P.M, and recorded by George C. Lowson town Clerk Whereas Joseph N. Adams of Narragansett in the county of Kent and state of Rhode Island, George Carmichael of Richmond in the county of Washington and said state and William H. Sheffield of the town of Smithfield in the county of Providence and said state were appointed commissioners under Chapter 800 of the Public laws, passed at the January session AD 1870 of said state entitled "An Act to abolish the tribal authority and tribal relations of the Narragansett tribe of Indians, and the people entering into the performance of their duties under the provisions of said act were engaged in the faithful discharge of their duties. Said Previous said commissioners after the report and final settlement 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 orders of the Supreme Court of said state disposed the lands assigned to the said state as provided in said act into lots or parcels in such manner as were 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 twenty fourth day of July AD 1883 at ten oclock in the forenoon at a place near the Indian Meeting House in said town of Charlestown by an advertisement in the "Weekly" and "The Narragansett Gazette" two newspapers published in the county of Washington "in the Providence Daily Journal" and "the Providence Evening Bulletin" these 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

189 Time of said sale: And whereas, said commissioners at said time and place, land at an adjournment of said sale of which said commissioners gave the verbal notice at the place where such sale had been last publicly notified to be held of the time and place by which said sale was adjourned for and in behalf of said state did make sale of said lands at public auction to the highest bidder hereon and whereas at said adjournment of said sale on Tuesday the eleventh day of July 1802 the said Saml P sold on a certain plot of land entitled "Kingdom in the Rain" East side surveyed and platted by Mr. Isaac Greene, which said plot is to be recorded in the records of land evidence in said town of [illegible] and which said plots are part of East Common is sold and called and containing roughly seventy seven acres more or less to Joseph Bent of said Rhode Island for the sum of twenty (20) Dollars he being the highest bidder therefor which said sum has since been received by said commissioners of said Revenue It is therefore declared that the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, for and in consideration of said sum of seventy Dollars received as aforesaid does by these presents give grant bargain sell alienate convey and cede to said Joseph Bent his heirs and assigns said plot of land as aforesaid described In able to hold the same to him said Joseph Bent his heirs and assigns forever In testimony whereof Samuel Clark General Treasurer of said state for and in behalf of said state by virtue of the authority contained wherein him by said act and of all other authorities in this behalf entitling him has subscribed to the name and seal of said state this eleventh day of July in the year eighteen hundred and eighty two Signed sealed and delivered In presence of Saml P Colt L. S. By Samuel Clark General Treasurer State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Providence County S S In Providence in said county on this eleventh day of July in the year 1802 personally appeared before me Samuel Clark 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 acted indeed individually and in his capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid Saml P Colt Approved August 11th 1802 Saml P Colt Attorney Public Received for record Aug 31st 1803 at 2 oclock PM and entered by Elijah B. Grove Town Clerk