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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
WHEREAS under date of June 1, 1922, the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company (hereinafter called the Telephone Company) a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of New York, having its principal office in the City of New York, State of New York, and having its principal administering offices in the City of Boston, State of Massachusetts, and in the City of Concord, State of New Hampshire, as well as in Manchester in the County of Hillsborough, in Massachusetts, at Boston in the County of Suffolk, and in Concord in the County of Merrimack, State of New Hampshire, has delivered an indenture of first and trust mortgage (hereinafter called the First Mortgage) to the First National Bank of Boston, as trustee (hereinafter called the Trustee) under the laws of the United States of America (hereinafter called the Trustee), having its established place of business in the City of Boston, State of Massachusetts, and has assigned and appointed the property therein described as security for a series of bonds to be issued from time to time and provided for; and
WHEREAS, in and by said First Mortgage the Telephone Company covenanted with said Trustee that the Telephone Company at any and all times would do, execute, acknowledge and deliver all and every such further deed, conveyances, mortgages and transfers and assurances as should be reasonably required for the purpose of securing the payment of the principal of the bonds and the interest upon the property thereby conveyed and assigned or intended so to be; and
WHEREAS, the Telephone Company since the date of said First Mortgage has from time to time acquired property with a held title, or with a title defective in some particular, by way of diverse kinds and descriptions, which acquired property and interests were by virtue of the provisions of said First Mortgage intended to be a part of the security for the indebtedness therein specified and provided for; and
WHEREAS, the Telephone Company in accordance with the requirements of the above-mentioned covenants contained in said First Mortgage, and at the express request of said Trustee, executed and delivered to said Trustee under date of May 1, 1926, and February 1, 1936, certain deeds for the purpose of confirming said First Mortgage; and
WHEREAS, the Telephone Company has heretofore issued Series B bonds, $15,000,000 in principal amount of its First Mortgage Thirty Year Five Per Cent Bonds, gold securities, A maturing June 1, 1952, and $40,000,000 in principal amount of its First Mortgage 4% gold securities, Bonds Series B, maturing May 1, 1961, and $20,000,000 in principal amount of its First Mortgage 4% gold securities, Bonds Series C, maturing February 1, 1963, all said bonds of Series C having been redeemed in accordance with their terms on February 1, 1963; and
WHEREAS, all said bonds of Series A and of Series B are now outstanding, and the Telephone Company now proposes to issue $20,000,000 in principal amount of bonds of a new series to be issued under the terms of said First Mortgage, which new series of bonds shall be designated as Bonds Series D, maturing February 1, 1977, all bonds of Series A, Bonds Series B and Series D being to be secured by the property described in said First Mortgage and other instruments dated May 1, 1926 and February 1, 1936, and this supplemental instrument which has been based and authorized by the terms of said First Mortgage;
NOW THEREFORE, in further compliance with the terms of the provisions of the above recited covenant in said First Mortgage, and at the express request of said Trustee and in consideration of the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) paid by the said Trustee, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and further to secure the payment of the principal of the bonds and the interest thereon, now issued or to be issued under the aforesaid mortgage, according to their tenor and effect and the terms of said First Mortgage, the Telephone Company has granted, bargained, sold, conveyed, transferred, consigned, contained, the Telephone Company has granted, bargained, sold, conveyed, transferred, consigned, released, conveyed, transferred, consigned, released, conveyed, transferred, consigned, released, and its successors in said trust and its successors in said trust and its successors in said trust and its successors in said trust and its successors in said trust and its successors in said trust and its 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and upon the terms and provisions therein contained and expressed and not otherwise.
Within six months from the date of the execution and delivery of this supplemental instrument the Telephone Company will file with the Trustees a written statement in such detail as the Trustees may require, setting forth a full and accurate description of such parcels of real estate as are owned by it on said date and have been acquired by it subsequent to the date of the original execution and delivery of the said First Mortgage, and which parcels of real estate have been heretofore or are being subjected to the liens of said First Mortgage by the terms of the original execution and delivery of said First Mortgage, provided, however, that if the Telephone Company has heretofore furnished to the Trustees a description of any such parcels of real estate, such parcels may be omitted from the description to be furnished pursuant to this agreement.
These presents are intended to be construed as a supplemental deed to a confirmatory but not incorporated with or as a limitation upon the terms of the said First Mortgage heretofore executed and recorded for the purpose of facilitating the recording hereof these presents may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be and shall be taken to be an original, all constituting one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company has caused its corporate name to be hereunto subscribed by J. E. Harrell, its President, and its corporate seal to be thereto affixed and attested by its Secretary, heretofore thus duly authorized, on the first day of February, 1945.
NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY (Corporate Seal)
By J. E. Harrell
President
Attest: O. J. Ives
Secretary
Signed, sealed and delivered
in the presence of
W. A. Wilkins
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Suffolk, ss:
On this first day of February, 1945, before me appeared J. E. Harrell, to me personally known, who, being duly sworn did say that he is President of New England Telephone and Telegraph Company and that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the corporate seal of said Corporation and that he had been duly authorized to execute in behalf of said Corporation by authority of its Board of Directors, and said J. E. Harrell acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said Corporation.
On the first day of February, 1945, personally appeared the above named J. E. Harrell, President of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company as aforesaid, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his free act and deed in his said capacity, and the free act and deed of said corporation in his said capacity.
In Boston, this first day of February, 1945, before me personally appeared J. E. Harrell, to me known and by me to be the person who, 그는 in his capacity as President executed the foregoing instrument in the name of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, said company, and he acknowledged said instrument by his so executed to be his free act and deed in his said capacity and deed of said corporation in his said capacity, and on said occasion he certified that said instrument was so executed by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation and that the seal of said corporation was affixed thereto by like authority.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at the City of Boston, in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on this first day of February, in the year 1945.
My notarial commission expires Nov 12, 1948.
ARCHIE W. FAVOUR (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public.
Received for record February 10th, A. D. 1945 at 1:00 o'clock, P. M. and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
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