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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-
ly 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 assess-
ment and fixed the rate thereon of $1.20 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, Clara G. Olney, neglected to pay the tax assessed against her as
expressed in said tax bill amounting to two Dollars twenty-seven Cents ($2.27) and in conse-
quence thereof I did on the 1st day of May, A. D. 1940 levy said warrant upon certain that
tract (or parcel) of land shown and designated as Lot 41, Assessors' Plat 13, and appearing
on Original Tax List and Tax Bill 1939, (also notice of levy served according to law), be-
longing to said Clara G. Olney in said Charlestown, and did advertise the same for sale at
four public places in said Town of Charlestown, viz: Wright's Garage, the store of E. C.
Brom & Sonnell'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 Washington, 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 Leon M. Grinnell, of said Town of Charlestown, was the highest bid-
der, NOW KNOW YE, that in consideration of the sum of Thirteen Dollars Nineteen Cents
($13.19) to me paid by said Leon M. Grinnell the receipt whereof I hereby acknowledge, I
do hereby acknowledge and convey unto said Leon M. Grinnell, his heirs and assigns, forever, all the
right, title and interest which said Clara G. Olney had in and 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' Plots 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 Leon M. Grinnell, his heirs 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 Leon M. Grinnell, his heirs and assigns, that I have advertised the said prop-
erty as hereinbefore stated and have complied with the terms of the law regulating the col-
lection 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
William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes,
Town of Charlestown for the year 1939
(T. 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 me known and known by me to be the
person executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument, by him
executed, 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, 1940 at 11:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[?] Town Clerk
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