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