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670 TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME: I, WILLIAM D. CROSS, Collector of Taxes, for the Town of Charlestown, County of Washingtonton State of Rhode Island, for the year 1938,
SEND GREETING; WHEREAS the taxpayers of said Town of Charlestown, at their annual Financial Town Meeting duly notified and held on the 11th day of April, A. D. 1938, voted and ordered the assessment and collection of a tax on the ratable real estate and tangible personal property of the owners of real and personal estate in said Town of Charlestown; AND WHEREAS, on the 15th day of June, A. D. 1938, the Board of Tax Assessors of said Town made such assessment and fixed the rate thereon of $1.20 on each one hundred dollars valuation of the ratable real estate and tangible personal property, and the tax bill in due form delivered to me with the warrant duly signed attached thereto, by the Town Treasurer, of said Town, requiring me to proceed according to law and collect said tax and place the same in the Town Treasury of said Town.
AND WHEREAS, HENRY J. VELINS neglected to pay the tax assessed against him as in preference stated tax bill amounting to Sixty Cents ($0.60) and in consequence thereof I did on the last day of March, A. D. 1939 levy said warrant upon that certain tract or parcel of real estate as shown and designated as Lot 726, Assessors' Plat 16, and appearing on original Tax List and Tax Bill 1938 (also notice of levy served according to law), belonging to said Henry J. Velins in said Charlestown, and did advertise the same for sale at three public places in said Town of Charlestown, viz: Charlestown Post office, Frittie's Garage, Grinnell's Garage, stores of A. C. Brown & Son, and also in the Westerly Daily Sun, a newspaper published in said County of Washington, for not more than twenty days previous to said sale, and on the 6th day of May, A. D. 1939, at 12:30 o'clock p. m., Eastern Standard Time, at the Town Hall, in said Town, I proceeded to sell at public auction, by Robert P. Day, a qualified auctioneer, the premises aforesaid, and Alice G. Brady, of the City and Commonwealth of Province, State of Rhode Island was the highest bidder.
NOW, KNOW YE, that in consideration of the sum of Ten Dollars Twenty-five Cents ($10.25) by me paid to said Alice G. Brady the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, I do hereby sell and convey unto said Alice G. Brady, her heirs and assigns, forever, all the right, title and interest which said Henry J. Velins had in and to said premises at the time of assessing said tax, with all the appurtenances there belonging to a description of said premises, reference is hereby made and had to Assessors' Plat and Cards on file in the office of the Town Clerk of said Town of Charlestown and to the Land Evidence Records of said Town
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to the said Alice G. Brady, her heirs and assigns, forever, (subject to the right of redemption as provided by law).
And I, the said William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, as aforesaid, do covenant with the said Alice G. Brady, her heirs and assigns, that I have advertised the said property as heretofore stated 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 10th day of May, A. D. 1939.
IN the presence of:
LINTON L. BROWN
WILLIAM D. CROSS (SEAL)
Collector of Taxes, Town of
Charlestown for the year 1938.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 10th day of May, A. D. 1939, before me personally appeared William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, as aforesaid, to me known and by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and he 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 May 11th, A. D. 1939 at 9:54 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [?]
Town Clerk
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