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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT I, MARTHA W. JENKS, of the City of Pawtucket, County of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint my daughter, Alice J. Nickerson, of the City of Cranston, in said County and State, my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name, place and stead, with full power of substitution: to collect all interests, rents, income, dividends and profits of and from all of my property, real and personal, and to give thereby any form of release, receipt or acquittance which may be necessary or convenient; to demand, sue for, and collect all debts, moneys, dividends, securities, evidences of indebtedness and other property to which I am now or may hereafter become entitled, and to make, sign, execute and deliver receipts, releases, acquittances or other discharges for the same; to enter into and upon all my real estate, and to make, execute, acknowledge and deliver any contract for the same of said real estate or any part thereof to such person, for such price and on such terms and conditions as I may see fit, and to make, execute, acknowledge and deliver a deed or deeds thereof, including mortgage deeds; to let, manage, repair and improve the same, or any part thereof; to contract with any person for the letting per such periods and rents and subject to such conditions as she, in her discretion, shall deem best, all or any of my real estate, and to execute all such leases and contracts as shall be necessary or proper in that behalf, and to give notice to quit to any tenant thereof, and to receive and recover from such tenants all rents and sums of money which shall become due in respect thereof, also to take all necessary proceedings for terminating the tenancy of such tenants and to do all things incidental to the management thereof; to withdraw by check, draft, order or otherwise, any and all moneys now or hereafter on deposit to my account; to borrow money and to make, endorse, guarantee, collect transfer and deliver checks, drafts, notes and other negotiable instruments and commercial paper in my name and to make deposits thereof, and generally to deal with the same as I myself might do; to have access to any safe deposit box of mine whether held solely in my name, and in common, or jointly with any other person, and to remove and or all of the contents of, and to surrender such safe deposit box; to receive and deliver for my account, in her discretion, any proceeds received from the sale of any or all of my said property or any funds of mine that may come to the possession of my said attorney from any source; to sell, assign, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose of land and all with or all any part of the capital stock, bonds, or other securities of any corporation which I now or may hereafter own, and to vote upon any or all such capital stock at any corporate meeting as my proxy and to give proxies with the same right and authority that I might have to vote or to give proxies upon such capital stock if personally present; to prepare and execute, under oath or otherwise as may be required, on my behalf, and to file all income or other tax returns whether to the United States or any State or Municipality, and to retain legal counsel to act for me before any court, board, department or tribunal; to execute ownership and all other certificates or documents which may be required of me in connection with any of the foregoing; and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and every thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney or her substitute shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 24th day of November, A. D. 1952.
In the presence of
Charlotte M. Moulton
MARTHA W. JENKS (SEAL)
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
County of Providence
In Cranston on this 24th day of November, A. D. 1952, before me personally appeared Martha W. Jenks, to me known and known by me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing power of attorney, and acknowledged the same by her execution to be her free act and deed.
WILLIAM A. GILMAN (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public.
Received for record October 17th, A. D. 1953 at 2:30 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
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I, CLAYTON E. RUSSELL, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to DANIEL N. DEMORRIS and JENNIE E. DEMORRIS, husband and wife, both of said Town, County and State, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in common, meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY COVENANTS
(Description, and Incumbrances, if any)
Those certain lot or parcels of land, situated in said Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, being a part of Plat Lots Numbers 557 and 558 on that plat entitled, "Charlestown, R. I. Sea Area, owned and developed by Thomas P. Rea, Incorporator" in Charlestown, Rhode Island, Scale 1" = 100 feet, dated July 25, 1954, K. W. Leighton, Civil Engineer, New Haven, Connecticut, and filed in the Office of the Recorder of Land Evidence of the Town Clerk, said Town of Charlestown. Said Lots together form one tract bounded as follows:
WESTERLY : by Charlestown Beach Road, as shown on said plat, 95 feet, more or less;
NORTHERLY : by Lot #556, as shown on said plat, 111.4 feet, more or less;
EASTERLY : by Lot #557, as shown on said plat, 55 feet, more or less; and
SOUTHERLY : by Thomas Street, as shown on said plat, 111.2 feet, more or less.
This deed is subject to restrictions as contained on said Map or plat.
Being the same premises conveyed by deed of Walter D. Johnson and Mae E. Johnson to this grantor, said deed being dated June 1, 1948, and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, Book 33, Pages 632 and 633.
I, Clayton E. Russell, hereby covenant that I am an unmarried.
WITNESS my hand this 6th day of October, 1953.
CLAYTON E. RUSSELL
(DOCUMENTARY STAMP, 55¢)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.)
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County of Washington )
In Charlestown, on the 6th day of October, 1953, before me personally appeared Clayton E. Russell to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument and be acknowledged said instrument, by him executed, to be his free act and deed.
LINTON L. BROWN, Notary Public
Received for record October 17th, A. D. 1953 at 3:00 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk