Agreement stating “In consideration of Twenty-five thousand dollars to me in hand paid by the Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Co., I hereby transfer to said Company my bid for property sold by the Eagle Manufacturing Co. on the 14th of December 1865 and bid off by me for One Hundred Thousand Dollars and on payment of the said sum of One hundred thousand dollars to the Eagle Manufacturing Co. I hereby request the President of the Eagle Manufacturing Co. to make directly to the Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Co. the deeds for property in Georgia & Alabama bid off by me on the 14th November, 1865” [signed] N.J. Bussy, June 8, 1866 Indenture whereby the Rock Island Paper Mill Company sold Water Lot #14 to William McAlister of Columbus, Georgia for $7,000, September 1, 1866 Legal opinion concerning the validity of the title to the Rock Island Paper Mill, September 28, 1866