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STATE of RHODE ISLAND)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 6th day of August, A. D. 1936, before me personally appeared Karl B. Bowler, Collector of Taxes, aforesaid, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument, by him executed executing the foregoing instrument, and 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 January 12th, A. D. 1937 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[signature]
Town Clerk.
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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:
GREETING:
KARL B. BOWLER, Collector of Taxes, for the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington State and State of Rhode Island, for the year, 1935.
SEND GREETING: Whereas the taxpayers of said Town of Charlestown, at their Annual Financial Town Meeting duly notified and held on the 5th day of April, A. D. 1935, voted and ordered that the town assessor should make a valuation of all real and personal estate in said town including personal property of the owners of real and personal estate in said Town of Charlestown; and Whereas, said assessor on the 15th day of May of the year A. D. 1935 completed said made such assessment and fixed the tax rate of $.13 on every one hundred dollars' value of real estate and $.15 on every one hundred dollars' value of tangible personal property, and the tax bill is due for payment on the 1st day of September, A. D. 1935. Thereby, by the laws and statutes of said Town, regulating me in proceeding according to law and collecting said tax and place the same in the town treasury.
AND WHEREAS, STANTON C. SAUNDERSON and CARL W. SAUNDERSON, neglected to pay the tax assessed against them as expressed in said tax bill amounting to Two Dollars Forty Cents ($2.40), and in default thereof, the said taxes remained unpaid, A. D. 1935 levy and sale upon a certain tract of land belonging to said Stanton C. Saunders and Carl W. Saunders, and the said taxes were recovered by the sale of said land, at public sale, in the Town of Charlestown, vis: Town Hall, Town Clerk's Office and Office of the Shop of the Shannock News, and also at the Town Hall, on the 6th day of August, A. D. 1936, after having given twenty days previous to said sale, and on the 30th day of July, A. D. 1936, at two o'clock, p. m., notice of the said sale, by posting the same in three public places in the premises aforesaid, and Mortgage-Wells Fargo Company, of Shannock, R. I., was the highest bidder.
NOW, KNOW YE, that in consideration of the sum of eleven Dollars Sixty-Four Cents ($11.64) and other good and valuable consideration, I, Karl B. Bowler, Collector of Taxes, aforesaid, do hereby sell and convey unto the said Mortgage-Wells Fargo Company, its or their heirs and assigns, forever, all that right, title and interest which said Stanton C. Saunders and Carl W. Saunders then had in the said land, at the said public sale, viz: All that certain piece of land belonging to said parties Town of Charlestown, Book 24, Pages 354 and 355 reference to said plat and records being hereunto attached as part of this deed, and referred to as the premises aforesaid, to the Legal boundaries of said Charlestown, Book 24, Pages 354 and 355 reference to the Legal boundaries of said Charlestown, Book 24, Pages 354 and 355 reference to the Legal boundaries of said Charlestown, Book 24, Pages 354 and 355.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to the said Mortgage-Wells Fargo Company, its or their heirs and assigns, forever, (subject to the right of redemption as provided by law).
And I, the said Karl B. Bowler, Collector of Taxes, aforesaid, do covenant with the said Mortgage-Wells Fargo Company, its or their heirs and assigns, that I have advertised the said premises hereby foreclosed state and have complied with the terms of the law regulating the collection of taxes.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 6th day of August, A. D. 1936.
In the presence of:
KARL B. BOWLER
Collector of Taxes f.
Town of Charlestown for the
year 1935.
Linton L. Brown
STATE of RHODE ISLAND)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 6th day of August, A. D. 1936, before me personally appeared Karl B. Bowler, Collector of Taxes, aforesaid, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and 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 January 12th, A. D. 1937 at 9:05 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[signature]
Town Clerk.