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I, HOWARD E. THORP of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to BYRON M. HISCOX and ALICE S. HISCOX, husband and wife, both of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, as Joint Tenants, meaning to the survivor; with WARRANTY COVENANTS
A certain tract or parcel of land situated and being at Quonocutcong Contaugal Cent Beach, no called, in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island and bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Surfside Avenue at the southeasterly corner of the premises hereby conveyed and the southeasterly corner of other land of these grantees; thence running northerly 131 feet; thence running south 30 degrees west 30 degrees and running westerly 15 feet; thence running southerly 132 feet to Surfside Avenue; thence running easterly 15 feet to the point of beginning of and place of beginning of the same.
Meaning and intending to convey the easterly 15 feet of Lot #11 said as denoted and delineated on a certain map or plat entitled, "Plan of Quonocutcong Contaugal Beach, Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island," by Thorp, Hiscox, In. Agents, 80 feet to the inch, October, 1924, Rossli & Lewis, Engrs., Revised September 26th, 1936, said plan or plat being on file in the Town Clerk's Office in said Town of Charlestown.
In consideration of the purchase price it is mutually understood and agreed that and that the premises hereby conveyed shall be and become a part of the lot #11 owned by the grantees and that no building shall be placed on the east and no buildings of any kind or nature are to be built, erected or put up on the northerly 15 feet of said lot #11; furthermore this conveyance confers all privileges and benefits and subjects it and all rights thereto, including the right of way over the road to the beach. It is further covenanted and agreed that the said grantees their heirs and assigns will and shall pay to Quonocutcong Contaugal Beach Fire District, its successors and assigns, on or before the first day of August in each year hereafter running from the one thousandth year of our Lord, 1946, the sum of one dollar ($1.00) for the taxes levied on Lot #11 hereby conveyed, said sum to be expended and applied by the said Quonocutcong Beach Fire District, its successors and assigns in their sole and unconstrained discretion for the care and maintenance of the roads and the purchase of equipment to be designated for public use, and the sums agreed to be paid are hereby and hereby are a lien charge upon the premises hereby conveyed, and in case of failure to make any payment within one year after the same shall become due and payable for said sum to the Quonocutcong Centaugal Beach Fire District, its successors and assigns to sell and convey the premises hereby conveyed or the first paying off of any amount sale in some newspaper published in said county of Washington at least once each week for three weeks prior to the sale and become the purchaser or purchasers at said sale.
Meaning and intending to convey the easterly fifteen (15) feet of Lot #11 said Lot #11 was conveyed to this grantor by Mildred R. Taylor by deed dated January 14th, 1946 and recorded in the Land Evidence Records of said Town of Charlestown in book 29 at page 697.
And I, Mary E. Thorp, wife, to the grantees of this deed grantes all my right of dower and all other interest in the aforesaid described premises.
WITNESS our hands this 30th day of March, 1946,
HOWARD E. THORP
MARY E. THORP
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON
In Westerly on the 30th day of March, 1946, before me personally appeared Howard E. Thorp and Mary E. Thorp, to me known and by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
NELSON H. THORP (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public.
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, 25¢)
Received for record May 1st, A. D. 1946 at 9:42 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk