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      adjudged and decreed in the said cause, that the said decree, appointing
      the said party of the first part Special Master, as aforesaid, should be so
      modified and altered as to authorise and empower the said Master to
      sell any part of the said Real Estate mentioned in said first decree at
      private sale for cash, or on reasonable credit, provided that no part
      of said Real Estate shall be sold at a less price than that for which is was
      purchased in by the said defendant Benjamin A. Putnam, as Executor as aforesaid
      at the sale made of the lands of the Arredondo Grant, in the month of February
      one thousand eight hundred and forty nine, and no sale by said Master shall
      be held binding or valid until the same shall have been reported by said
      Master, to this said Court, or to the Judge thereof, and been confirmed and
      whereas afterwards, at the June Term one thousand eight hundred
      and fifty three of the said Court the said Special Master made a report to
      the said Court in which among other things he reported the sale at
publicprivate sale of the premises hereinafter described to the said party of the second
      part, and whereas there being no exception to the said report, the same
      was confirmed by the said Court, and the said Master was by order of said
      Court, among other things, authorised and empowered to make execute
      and deliver conveyances among others things to the said party of the second part
      for the tract of land purchased by him from the said Master as aforesaid
      whenever, he the said party of the second part, shall have complied with
      and fulfilled his contract of purchase with the said Special Master
      and has paid the whole amount of purchase money for the said tract of
      land, and whereas the said party hath this day complied with and
      fulfilled the said contract and paid the whole amount of his purchase
      money therefore now this Indenture witnesseth, that the said
      Charles A.M. Mitchel, Special Master in Chancery as aforesaid, in order
      to carry into effect the said sale, made in persuance of the said decree
      above cited and in consideration of the premises and of the sum of five
      & twelve Dollars paid at the time of the execution hereof, by the said party of 
      the second part to the said Charles A.M. Mitchel, Special Master
      aforesaid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted
      bargained, sold, released, conveyed, and confirmed, and by these presents
      doth grant, Bargain, sell, release and confirm unto the said party of the
      second part his heirs and assigns forever, all that tract or parcel of
      Land known and described on the map of the said Arredondo Grant in
      the survey of David Burr and Henry Washington in the year one thousand
      eight hundred and forty five, as Section twenty five township eleven
      Range Twenty one together with all and singular the rights, members
      hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise
      appertaining, to have and to hold all and singular the said premises
      above mentioned and described and hereby granted and conveyed, or
      intended to be so with the appurtenances unto the said party of the
      second part his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use, benefit and be
      -hoof of the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever
      In witness whereof the said Charles A.M. Mitchel Special Master in Chancery aforesaid
      hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written
      Sealed and delivered in presence of             } 
before signing and sealing the words two and private  } C.A.M. Mitchel (seal)
are erased, and the words three and public interlined } Special Master in Chancery
            B.A. Putnam                               }
            Geo R. Fairbanks
      State of Florida } 
      Alachua County   } Before me Robt Youngblood Clerk of the
Transcribed by Charlotte Vallellanes 3 October 2015
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