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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, NORMAN L. BEHNEKE and MARIE ROSE YVONNE BEHNEKE, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the Grantors, in consideration of the sum of Ten ($\text{10.00}$) Dollars to us paid by WILLIAM S. EDWARDS and MARY E. EDWARDS, his wife, both of Attleboro, County of Bristol, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Grantees, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, and their heirs and assigns forever in fee simple:
That certain tract or lot of Land, with all buildings and improvements thereon situated, located in the Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island, laid out and delineated as Lot No. Fifty-seven (57) on that plat entitled "Sea Lea Plat, located in Charlestown, Rhode Island, Kingdom Street, R.I." prepared by M. H. Behneke, Numbered lots Represented area of Sea Lea Extension, recorded Plat 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, signed Leon L. Holland, Civil Engineer, Scale 1" = 80', which plat is recorded in the Records of Evidence of Charlestown, R.I. in Book 25, page 145.
This conveyance is made subject to the following restrictions binding upon the said Grantors, their heirs and assigns:
1. Only one private one-family residence and a private garage shall be erected, placed, maintained or permitted upon said lot, and no other building shall be erected on said lot, including porches shall not come nearer (5) feet from the North west boundary of said lot, nor nearer than five (5) feet from the North, south and east boundaries of said lot.
2. No garage shall be used as a residence unless it costs minimum the cost of the residence to be erected on said lot, and no tents and no auto trailers shall be erected, placed or maintained on said premises.
3. All toilets on said lot shall be constructed in accordance with cesspools or septic tanks, so as not to pollute or endanger any drinking water supply, nor to pollute or endanger any drinking water supply, nor to pollute the waters along the shore line of this lot.
4. Said lot, or any part thereof, shall not be used for any trade or business or commercial purpose or for any public purposes whatsoever.
5. No house shall be erected, placed or maintained on said lot costing less than Fifteen Hundred ($\text{1,500.00}$) Dollars without the written consent of these Grantors.
Also that certain strip of land in said Charlestown, Rhode Island, designated as Lot number two hundred forty-one (241) on the above entitled plat, which is conveyed subject to the following restrictions:
(a) No building other than a dock wharf shall be erected on said strip of land. No pipes shall run from or through this land to the green Hill Pond, and nothing shall be maintained on said strip of land unless it will in any manner benefit the use of the wharf.
(b) No part of said land shall be used for any trade or business or for any commercial or public purpose whatsoever. No person may use said premises as sleeping quarters or for a trailer or tent. This strip of land shall at all times be kept in neat order and free from any unsightly litter.
(c) Said premises are conveyed e-clusively for the purpose of giving to the Grantees, who are the owners of Lot No. 57 on the above described plat, access to communicate with the boating and boating piers, persons and boats and any other persons who may be thereby given to use the wharf, provided that a person who is the lessee or tenant of any dwelling house that may be built on said Lot No. 57. It is our express intention that said strip of land shall be used by the Grantees and their heirs or any purpose whatsoever by lot owners on other plats and by any one other than the normal or legal occupant of the dwelling house on Lot 57.
(d) Community privileges and paths, ways and streets of Sea Lea Colony adjacent to these strips of land are exclusively and reserved exclusively for residents of Sea Lea Colony to protect their quiet and peace aberrant of these paths, ways and streets shall not be used by any owners of lots of Sea Lea Colony to protect their own adjacent plots or to any other persons.
(e) Said strip of land of Lot No. 241 must be conveyed with Lot No. 57 and cannot be sold separate and apart from it. Should the Grantees, as joint tenants, their heirs and assigns, to convey, lease or rent said strip of land No. 241 to any person other than the owner of Lot No. 57, said strip of land No. 241 immediately revert to these grantors, their heirs and assigns, and immediately possess the said strip of land No. 241, and the said Grantees, their heirs and assigns to enter and take possession upon such breach shall not constitute a waiver of their rights and remedies.
And we, MARION GERTRUDE BURDICK, being the present owner of that certain mortgage from said Marie R. Y. Behneke to Edward Burdick and Marion Gertrude Burdick, dated July 29, 1932, and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence in said Charlestown, in Book 25, at page 145, for consideration paid, release to said Marie Rose Yvonne Behneke, all the right, title and interest as mortgage foreclosed, in and to the above described premises, together, with the full right to use the ways, streets and privileges as shown and delineated on said plat.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforementioned premises, with all the privileges thereunto belonging, unto and unto the use of the said Grantees, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, and their heirs and assigns forever in fee simple.
And we, the said Grantors, do hereby for ourselves and for our heirs, e-cutors and administrators, covenant with the said Grantees, and their heirs and assigns, that we are lawfully
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