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STATE OF NEW YORK.}
COUNTY OF KINGS,} ss.: No. 1170
I, FRANCIS J. SINNOTT, Clerk of the County of Kings, and also Clerk of the Supreme Court of said County, the same being a Court of Record, having a seal, do HEREBY CERTIFY, That for the said County, the same being a Court of Record, having a seal, do HEREBY CERTIFY, That MURIEL A. HEWITT (SIGNATURE) whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deposition or certificate of proof acknowledgment of a foregoing instrument, the signature thereon written, at the time of taking such deposition, or proof and acknowledgment, a Notary Public in and for such County, duly commissioned and qualified to take acknowledgments, did take acknowledgment of the foregoing instrument and administer oaths to be used in any Court of said State and for general purposes; and to take acts solemnly and properly acknowledged before him, as a Notary Public, in and for said County, State of New York. Further, and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Notary Public, or have compared the signature of such officer with that deposited in my office by him, and do believe that the signature to said deposition or certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court and County this 10 day of Dec. 1942.
FRANCIS J. SINNOTT (OFFICIAL SEAL)
Clerk
Received for record January 7th, A. D. 1943 at 3:20 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [?]
Town Clerk.
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
PETITIONER
-vs-
Misc. No. 150.
589 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS,
IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, RHODE ISLAND,
LAURA W. PROSSER, ET AL.,
DEFENDANTS
ORDER AND JUDGMENT ON DECLARATION OF TAKING
It appearing to this Court, that on the 23rd day of April, A. D. 1942, the United States of America filed herein a petition for the condemnation of certain lands herein described and that on the 6th day of January, A. D. 1943, the United States of America filed herein an amended petition for condemnation of lands hereinafter described and that on this 6th day of January, A. D. 1943, there has been filed a declaration of taking signed by James Forrest, Acting Secretary of the Navy, acting for and in behalf of the Secretary of the Navy, under and by virtue of the provisions of those Acts of Congress set forth in said amended petition for condemnation and in said declaration of taking and acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereto, which authorize the acquisition by condemnation proceedings of land suitable and necessary for public purposes, and it further appears that the said Acting Secretary of the Navy, in the declaration of taking with schedules attached, has duly stated the authority under which and the public use for which the lands are taken, the estate or interest acquired, the estimated just compensation for the taking of the said lands, together with a proper description and a plan of the lands to be taken, and that the estimated just compensation for all the lands so described in the declaration of taking deposited into the Registry of the Court is SEVENTY THOUSAND (70,000) DOLLARS.
It is therefore on motion of Harry A. Smith, Special Assistant to the Attorney General,
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the United States of America may take immediate possession
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And it is further ordered that due and legal service be had upon all of the persons, firms and corporations named as defendants or claimants in the amended petition filed herein who are affected by the declaration of taking, and all and singular their heirs, husbands, wives, widows, devisees, executors, administrators, representatives, alinees, successors and assigns of each and every named person, firm and corporation, and all unknown owners, lieners and claimants having or claiming any title, estate, equity or lien, and all occupants, lessees, licensees and users and holders and owners of and claimants to easements, in, on, over, across or through said lands, and all persons, companies and corporations claiming any title to or in or of any said tracts of land and requiring said parties to answer in this cause setting forth any claim, right, title, interest or possession of any kind or nature in and to said described lands, within sixty days of the service of this order.
Dated at Providence, Rhode Island, this 6th day of January, A. D. 1943 at 12:55 P. M. Eastern War Time
JOHN P. HARTIGAN
Judge
A True Copy
Attest:
JOSEPH P. SEGNORE
Clerk, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND
(Seal of the Court)
Received for record January 9th, A. D. 1943 at 1:00 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [signature]
Town Clerk
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