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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
WHEREAS, under date of the 1st day of April, 1892, The New York, Providence and Boston Railroad Company, a corporation then organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the respective States of Rhode Island and Connecticut, and the owner of the property hereinafter described, executed and delivered a General Mortgage or Deed of Trust conveying to the Treasurer of the State of Connecticut and to his successors in office, as Trustee, all and singular the double track railroad then belonging to and operated by said The New York, Providence and Boston Railroad Company beginning at the western limit of the Union Station on Exchange Place in the City of Providence, running thence through the said City and County of Providence and the Counties of Kent and Washington in the State of Rhode Island and the Villages of Auburn, Apponaug and East Greenwich and the Towns of North and South Kingston, Wood River Junction and Nimitz to the Pawcatuck River in the Village of Westerly in State stead, thence by a bridge across said River through the County of New London in the State of Connecticut and the Villages of Stonington, Mystic and Noank to the Thames River in the Town of Groton, and thence by a bridge across the Thames River to the City of New London and through the City of New London to the eastern limit of the Union Station in that City, together with the real estate, railway, rails, bridges, piers, fences, privileges, rights and franchises then owned and thereafter acquired by said The New York, Providence and Boston Railroad Company and appertaining to or belonging said line of railroad between the Cities of Providence and New London, and all lands then and thereafter used and occupied for railroad depots or stations, together with all buildings erected and which might thereafter be erected thereon and thereafter belonging to and thereafter acquired by or used and operated in connection with said railroad, together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments or appurtenances belonging or in any wise appertaining thereto, the reversion and reversions, the remainder and remainders, income, rents, issues and demands thereof, and also all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, as well all in law as in equity, of said The New York, Providence and Boston Railroad Company, of in, and to the said railroad and every part and parcel thereof with its appurtenances, including all deeds, documents of title, writings, books, papers and documents useful or convenient for the possession, use and operation of said railroad; to secure an issue of bonds of said Company to an aggregate amount not exceeding Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000.00.); which said General Mortgage or Deed of Trust was duly recorded in the office of the Secretary of the State of Connecticut in Deed Volume 3, at page 196 of the Record of Railroad Mortgages and in various recording offices in the State of Rhode Island; and
WHEREAS, One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00.) principal amount of bonds, maturing April 1 1942, were issued under said General Mortgage or Deed of Trust; and
WHEREAS, said The New York, Providence and Boston Railroad Company, by deed dated February 3, 1893, conveyed to The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and to its successors and assigns, forever, all its property, properties, rights, franchises and privileges, and said The New York, Providence and Boston Railroad Company has been merged in said The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway Company; and
WHEREAS, Howard S. Palmer, of New Haven, Connecticut, James Lee Loomis, of Cranbury, Connecticut, and Henry B. Sawyer, of Boston, Massachusetts, have been duly appointed the Trustees of the property of said The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway Company by orders of the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut in reorganization proceedings pending in said Court entitled "In the Matter of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, Debtor", No. 16562, and said appointments have been duly ratified by orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and said Trustees have duly qualified as and are now in possession of and operating the properties of said The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company pursuant to the provisions and directions contained in orders of said Court, and all of the property, real, personal and mixed, of every kind and nature whatsoever, of said The New York,
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New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, Debtor, is now vested, by orders of said Court, in said Trustees; and
WHEREAS, all bonds issued as aforesaid and secured by said General Mortgage or Deed of Trust have been fully paid and cancelled, or adequate provision therefor has been made:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Thomas H. Judd, Deputy Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, being duly authorized and empowered to perform all the duties of Frank M. Anastasio, Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, during his absence, said Treasurer being Trustee by succession under said General Mortgage or Deed of Trust, acting herein in pursuance of the statutes in such cases made and provided, in consideration of the premises and for divers good causes and considerations thereto moving and, especially for One Dollar ($1.00) received to my full satisfaction of said Trustees of the property of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have remised, released and forever quitclaimed, and do by these presents said Treasurer and for his successors in said office of Treasurer, remise, release and forever quitclaim unto said Howard S. Palmer, James Lee Loomis and Henry B. Sawyer, as the Trustees of the property of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, and to their successors and assigns forever, all the right, title, interest, claim and demand whatsoever which he, the said Frank M. Anastasio as Treasurer and Trustee by succession, has or ought to have by reason of the General Mortgage or Deed of Trust above described in and to the railroad and property, real, personal and mixed, formerly of said The New York, Providence and Boston Railroad Company and now of said Trustees of the property of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, as described in and conveyed by said General Mortgage or Deed of Trust so given as aforesaid; meaning and intending hereby to release and discharge said General Mortgage or Deed of Trust.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the premises, with all their appurtenances, unto said Trustees of the property of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company and their successors and assigns forever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Thomas H. Judd, Deputy Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal this 29th day of Dec., 1942.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of my witness
Eva L. Heater
THOMAS H. JUDD (Official Seal)
Deputy Treasurer of the State of Connecticut.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, }
COUNTY OF HARTFORD } ss.:
Hartford, Dec. 29, 1942.
Personally appeared Thomas H. Judd, Deputy Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, signer and sealer of the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed, before me
MARY P. BUCKLEY (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, } ss.
Hartford County }
I, Lucian P. Fuller, Clerk of the Court of Hartford and of the Superior Court of said State within this and for said County which is a Court of Record, and of the Seal of said therefore, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that Mary P. Buckley whose name is subscribed to the certificate or proof of acknowledgment attached to the foregoing instrument, was at the time of taking such acknowledgment, proof or affidavit or administering such oath, duly authorized to take or administer the same and was a Notary Public within her and for said State, dwelling in said County, duly commissioned and appointed in said office, and that her official seal of said State is the one attached to such oaths for general purposes and takes affidavits and that acknowledgments or proof of deeds to be recorded in the office of the Town Clerk in which the premises are situated, are sufficient, upon presenting the signature to the said acknowledgment or proof, affidavit or oath is genuine; and that such certificate is a true copy of the record.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Superior Court at Hartford, in said County, this 5th day of January, A.D. 1943.
LUCIAN P. FULLER, Clerk
(Official Seal)
Received for record July 26th, A.D. 1943 at 3:00 o'clock, P.M. and recorded by [?]
Town Clerk
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