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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME: I, WILLIAM D. CROSS, Collector of Taxes,
for the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for the year
1938,
SEND GREETING; WHEREAS the taxpayers of said Town of Charlestown, at their Annual Finan-
cial Town Meeting duly noticed and held on the 11th day of April, A. D. 1938, voted and order-
ed the assessment and collection of a tax on the ratable real estate and tangible personal pro-
perty 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 thereto of $1.29 on each one hundred dollars valuation of the ratable real
estate and tangible personal property, and the tax bill due for delivery with me to the
warrant duly signed attested thereto, by the Town Treasurer, of said Town, requiring me to pro-
ceed according to law and collect said tax and place the same in the Town Treasury of said Town.
AND WHEREAS, HARRIS W. TAYLOR neglected to pay the tax assessed against him as expressed in
said tax bill amounting to Twenty-one Dollars ($21.09) and in consequence thereof I did on the
1st day of March, A. D. 1939 levy said warrant upon that certain tract or parcel of real estate to
whom and delineated as Lot 27, Assessors' Plats 3 and 7 on original Tax List and Tax Bill, 1938
(also notices of levy served on said Harris W. Taylor and Mortgagee of record) telling to said
Harris W. Taylor, in said Charlestown, and did advertise the same for sale at three public places
in said Town of Charlestown, viz: Charlestown Post Office, Fright's Garage, Grimell's Garage,
store of S. C. Brown & Son, and also in the Westerly Daily Sun, a newspaper published in said
County of Washington, for 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 afore-
said, to Westerly Lumber Company, Inc., a Rhode Island Corporation, with place of business at
Westerly, Rhode Island, was the highest bidder.
NOW, KNOW YE, that in consideration of the sum of thirty-Four Dollars Thirteen Cents ($34.13)
to me paid by said Westerly Lumber Company, Inc. the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge I,
do hereby sell and convey unto said Westerly Lumber Company, Inc., its successors and assigns,
forever, all the right, title and interest which said Harris W. Taylor had in and to said prem-
ises at the time of assessing said tax, with all the appurtenances thereto belonging; for a de-
scription of said premises, reference is hereby made to assessors' Plats and Cards on
file in the office of the Town Clerk of said Charlestown and to the Land Evidence Records of
said Town
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to the said Westerly Lumber Company, Inc., its successors 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 Westerly Lumber Company, Inc., its successors and assigns, that I have advertised the said
property as hereinbefore stated and have complied with the terms of the law regulating the col-
lection 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: WILLIAM D. CROSS (SEAL)
LIX TON L. BROWN 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 known 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 9:48 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
Town Clerk
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