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here, has heremto affixed the name and seal of said State, this 17th
(seventeenth) day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and eighty two
signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Saml. P. Colt
L.S.
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
By Samuel Black
General Treasurer
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County ss
This seventeenth day of August A.D. 1882 personally appeared before me
Samuel Black General Treasurer of said state and acknowledged
the foregoing instrument to be his free and voluntary act and deed
of said state and his free and voluntary act and deed individually
and in his capacity as General treasurer as aforesaid,
B. M. Robertson
Notary Public
Approved August 17 1882 Saml P. Colt Attorney General
Received for record & filed 24th 1882 at 10 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by George E. Cross Town clerk
Whereas Dwight R. Adams of Warwick in the county of
Kent and State of Rhode Island George Carmichael of [illegible] in the
county of Washington and said state and William P. [illegible]
of Newport in the county of Newport and said state were appointed
commissioners under authority of the Act of the Legislature passed at the
January session A.D. 1880 of said state entitled "An Act to establish the
fuller authority and legal relations of the Narragansett Tribe
of Indians" and before preparing upon the performance of their duties
they were proportionally of said act were engaged to the faithful discharge
of their duties; And whereas these commissioners after having made
the report and plat mentioning in section 6 of said act have been
received in the office of the form clerk of the town of Charlestown
in said county of Washington pursuant to the order of the Supreme
Court of said state advised the lands assigned to the said state as
provided in said act into lots or parcels in such manner as was
deemed by them likely to facilitate the advantages also thereof
and gave notice that said lands would be sold at public auction
commencing on tuesday the seventeenth day of July A.D. 1882 at
oclock in the evening of a day at a near the Sleighs Meeting House in
said town of Charlestown by advertisement in the Easterly Herald
and the Narragansett Herald less newspapers published in the
county of Washington in the Providence Daily Journal" a
and that "Providence Evening News" his newspapers published
in the city of Providence and in the Newport Mercury" a
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newspaper paper published in the city of Newport for more than
thirty days prior to the time of said sale. And whereas said
commissioners of said time and place, and at an adjournment
of said sale of which said commissioners gave public notice
at the place where such sale had been; they having last
notified to the body of the time and place to which said sale
was adjourned, for and behalf of said state, did make
sale of said lands by public auction to the highest bidders
Therefore, on this [illegible]
(eleventh) day of July, A.D. 1882 lot No 25 on a certain plat
entitled "Bobbin's Reservation, Cedar Swamp" surveyed and
platted by Mr. J. Greene, which said plat is to be recorded in
the records of land evidence in city of Charlestown and
which said lot containing roughly five (5) acres, was sold to
Calvin B. Blinn of North Smithfield for the sum of $x Dollars the
being the highest bidder whose which said sum has since been
received by said commissioners.
Know all Men by these Presents, That
the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, for and
in consideration of said sum of $x Dollars received of aforesaid
said buyer they have given, grant bargain sell alienate shift
and convey to said Calvin B. Blinn his heirs and assigns, his
lot No 25 hereinbefore described to have and to hold the
same to him said Calvin B. Blinn his heirs and assigns
forever. And whereas, Samuel Delano, General
Treasurer of said state for and in behalf of said state, by virtue
of the authority conferred upon him by said act and free of
all other annuities in this behalf hereunto bind himself and heirs
the name and seal of said state this thirteenth day of September
A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight 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Lee, Edward L.
A.P. 16, Undivided, 1, Lot 1133, Amount due, 60¢
Received for record December 13th, A. D. 1955 at 10:55 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
TAX DEED
KNOW ALL MEN by THESE PRESENTS that I, William D. Cross, of the Town of Charlestown,
in the State of Rhode Island, Collector of taxes for said Town of Charlestown, send greeting:
WHEREAS, the Board of Assessors of said Town did, on the thirty-first day of
December, A. D. 1953 at twelve o'clock noon, make and set annual valuations on all the ratable
real estate and tangible personal property and the ratable intangible personal property
real estate and tangible personal property and the ratable intangible personal property
in said Town ; and whereas said Board of Assessors before said meeting set notice of said meeting to be posted in three public
places in said Town ; and whereas said Board of Assessors before said meeting being so notified having been
placed in said Town for three weeks next preceding the time of said meeting ; and whereas said Board of Assessors did
further cause published in the Westerly Sun, a weekly newspaper published in the
Town of Westerly, a notice of said meeting ; and whereas said Notice notified every person
in said Town of better to make application to said Board of Assessors for three consecutive
weeks next preceding the time of such meeting ; which said notices notified every person
in said Town of better to make application to said Board of Assessors before afternoon,
1953 at twelve o'clock p.m. between that time and that the 12th day of January, A. D. 1954
at 4 o'clock, p. m. to appear before said Board of Assessors at the Town Hall of said Town
by him or his agent describing and specifying the value of every parcel of such real estates and
personal estate, said notices being published in said Westerly Sun on november 26th and
31st, 1953 and on january 1st, 1954.
AND WHEREAS, the Electors of the Town of Charlestown voted on november 20th approx-
sition to impose a tax, Electors Town Meeting legally assembled on the 15th day of April, A. D.
1954, by a resolution, approved by a majority of votes, providing for collection of a tax on the ratable real estate
and tangible personal property and ratable intangible personal property of real estate
in said Town ; and whereas said resolution provided that the tax be paid on december 31,
of December, A. D. 1953, at
twelve o'clock noon, and to be collected in accordance with the directions contained in said
resolution and at the time specified.
AND WHEREAS, the Board of Assessors of said Town in accordance with said law order-
ed by said Electors of said Town did apportion said tax levy on the inhabitants of said Town
and at the ratable property in said Town in proportion to the annual valuations as they had been
said Assessors as of the last day of December, A. D. 1953, at twelve o'clock noon in accord-
ance with law, at the rate of $1.10 per $100.00 of valuation, and the tax on the ratable
estates, by the rate of $2, on each $100, valuation of ratable real estate and tangible personal
property in said Town, the same being a total sum of $11,117.10, and whereas said resolution of
not less than $14,000 but not more than $844.10, a. r in accordance with said resolution of
property in said Town, the same being a total sum of $11,117.10, and whereas said resolution of
not less than $14,000 but not more than $844.10, a. r in accordance with said resolution of
the Town Treasurer of said Town with a warrant under the hand of said Treasurer to collect
the tax and to collect the same from the persons liable therefor, or out of money therein expressed of
the persons and estates liable therefor, and
WHEREAS, said Board of Assessors did then and there assess and apportion said levy
upon the land, described hereinafter, as a portion of said tax, the sum of $1.10 as
tax uon the land described hereinafter, and whereas said tax has not been paid.
And in consequence thereof I, said William D. Cross, Collector as aforesaid, by virtue
of authority vested in me as Collector of taxes for said Town, did give notice in said Town and
did give notice for three weeks prior to said sale in the Westerly Sun, a newspaper published
in the County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, said notice being published on november 27,
and november 3, 1955, there being no newspaper published in said Town of Charlestown in
accordance with statutory provisions particularly that said notice be posted in four public places in said Town; viz: Post Office,
prior sale past up the Town Hall, and at the Town Hall, and at the Town Hall of the Town of
Carolina, R. I., Wright's Salvage Garage, Carolina, R. I., and at the Town Hall of the Town of
Charlestown, R. I., and at the Town Hall of the Town of Charlestown, R. I., all located in said Town of Charles-
town, R. I., and in the said notice it was stated that in accordance with state statutes concerning
town, that the estate described in said notice, (of the levy upon which notice is
given) or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the tax, costs and expenses thereon,
would be sold at public auction to the highest bidder at the Town Hall in said Town of Charles-
town on monday the 7th day of november, A. D. 1955 at two o'clock p. m. (Eastern Standard Time),
a copy of which said notice is attached hereto and made part hereof.