This Indenture made this fourteenth day of December in the year
One thousand eight hundred and fifty two: between Charles A.M. Mitchel
a Special Master in Chancery, residing in Ocala, in Marion County, State of
Florida of the first part, and Elias Bouknight of Alachua County
State aforesaid of the second part, whereas at the November Term
in the year Eighteen hundred and forty nine of the Circuit Court of the
Eastern Circuit of the State aforesaid setting in the County of St Johns
It was among other things ordered adjudged and decreed by the
said Court in a cause then depending in Chancery between Peter
Benet Administrater of Francis P. Sanchez deceased and Benja-
min A. Putnam executer of Peter Mitchel deceased that the said
party of the first part should be appointed Special Master in
Chancery in the said cause, and that among other things in said
decree specified the said Special Master should be authorized
and empowered to sell the Real Estate of the said Peter Mitchel
deceased, or so much thereof as may be saleable, included in the
tract known as the Arredondo Grant, said sale, and all other sales
in the said decree contemplated to be made, at some convenient
point within said grant, and after, notice of such sale to be given
by said Master in some Newpaper published in Florida, and
elsewhere, if said Master shall not deem such notice elsewhere
inexpedient and unneccessary, for a period not less than sixty
days, and whereas afterward at the June Term One thousand eight
hundred and fifty of the said Court, it was further ordered adjud-
ged and decreed in the said Court that the said decree appointing
the party of the first part Special Master as aforesaid should
be so modfied and altered as to authorize and empower the said
Master to sell any part of the real Estate mentioned in the 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 it was purchased in by the said defendant
Benjamin A. Putnam as executer as aforesaid, at the sale made of
the lands of the Arredondo Grant in the year 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 the said Court, or to the Judge thereof, and been confirmed;
whereas afterwards at the June Term 1852 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 private sale of the premises
hereinafter described to the 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 authorizd and empowered to make execute and
deliver conveyances among others to the said party of the second part
for the tract of land purchased by him from the said Master
as aforesaid, whenever the said party of the second part shall have
complied with and fulfilled the said contract, and paid the
whole amount of the 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,
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