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TO ALL PERSONS WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME: I, WILLIAM D. CROSS, Collector of Taxes,
for the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island , for the year 1939,
SEND GREETING: WHEREAS the taxpayers of said Town of Charlestown, at their annual
Financial Town Meeting duly notified and held on the 10th day of April, A. D. 1939, voted and
ordered the assessment and collection of a tax on the ratable real estate and tangible personal
property of the owners of real and personal estate in said Town of Charlestown; AND WHEREAS,
on the 15th day of June, A. D. 1939, the Board of Tax Assessors of said Town made such assessment
and fixed the rate thereon of $1.30 on each one hundred dollars valuation of the ratable real
estate and tangible personal property, and the tax bill in due form delivered to me with the
warrant duly signed attached thereto, by the Town Treasurer, of said Town, requiring me to proceed
according to law and collect said tax and place the same in the Town Treasury of said Town.
AND WHEREAS, Lillian E. Herbert neglected to pay the tax assessed against her as
expressed in said tax bill amounting to One Dollar Forty-seven Cents ($1.47) and in consequence
thereof I did on the 1st day of May, A. D. 1940 levy warrant upon that certain tract or
parcel of land shown and designated as Lot 16, Assessors' Plat 3, and appearing on Original
Tax List and Tax Bill 1939, (also notice of levy served according to law), belonging to said
Lillian E. Herbert in said Charlestown, and did advertise the same for sale at four public
places in said Town of Charlestown,vis: Wright's Garage, the store of E. C. Brown & Son,
Grinnell's Garage and the post office at Charlestown, R. I., for more than twenty days previous
to said sale, and also in the South County News, a newspaper published in said County of Wash-
ington, for more than twenty days previous to said sale, and on the 13th day of July, A. D. 1940,
at one o'clock, p. m., Daylight Saving Time, at the Town Hall, in said Town, I proceeded to
sell at public Auction, by Robert P. Day, a qualified auctioneer, the premises aforesaid, and no
bid being offered, I, William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, aforesaid, then and there made public
declaration that I was purchasing the above described premises for the Town of Charlestown, afore-
said, at the amount of the tax, charges and expenses of sale. NOW, KNOW YE, that in consideration
of the sum of Eleven Dollars Ninety-five Cents ($11.95) to me paid by said Town of Charlestown
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, I do hereby sell and convey unto said Town of
Charlestown, its successors and assigns, forever, all the right, title and interest which said
Lillian E. Herbert had in and to said premises at the time of assessing said tax, with all the
appurtenances thereto belonging; for a description of said premises, reference is hereby had and
made to Assessors' Plats and Cards on file in the office of the Town Clerk of said Town of
Charlestown and to the Land Evidence Records of said Town.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to the said Town of Charlestown, its successors and
assigns, forever, (subject to the right of redemption as provided by law).
And I, the said William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, as aforesaid, do covenant with
the said Town of Charlestown, its successors and assigns, that I have advertised the said property
as hereinbefore stated and have complied with the terms of the law regulating the collection of
taxes.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 23rd day of July, A. D. 1940.
In the presence of:
Linton L. Brown
Wm. D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, Town
of Charlestown for the year 1939. (L. S.)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 23rd day of July, A. D. 1940, before me personally appeared
William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, as aforesaid, to be known and known by me to be the party
executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument, by his execution, to
be his own free act and deed, individually, and in his official capacity aforesaid.
LINTON L. BROWN, Notary Public
Received for record July 24th, A. D. 1940 at 10:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
Town Clerk
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