The following resolution was then offered and adopted:
Resolved, that Doctor A. Hunting and Andrew J. Mead be a committee, and are hereby authorized to arrange with all persons claiming to hold preemptions within the limits of the city of Manhattan, with a view to perfect a title to the same for the benefit of the Manhattan town Association and the Cincinnati and Kansas Land Company, and when Satisfactory arrangements shall be completed with said preemptory the committee are empowered by this board to purchase one or two floats to be laid upon the city Site, or to make such other arrangements to perfect a title, and

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for the benefits of Said companies as in judgement of the committee may appear for the best interests of parties represented.