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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 Nimble 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 remainders, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof, and demand whatsoever, as well 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 Railroad 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 Railroad 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 and of the property, real, personal and mixed, of every kind and nature whatsoever, of said The New York,
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