The instrument's own words
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Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Thomas A. Carroll
[illegible] all signatures
Mary A. Sewall L.S.
David M. Sewall L.S.
Mary E. Sewall L.S.
State of Rhode Island
Providence Ss.
In Providence, on the eighteenth day of
January AD, 1899, before me personally appeared the above
named Mary A. Sewall, David M. Sewall and Mary E.
Sewall wife of said David M. Sewall, each to me known
and known to be by me to be the parties executing the foregoing
instrument and they severally acknowledged said instrument
by them executed it to be their free act and deed.
Thomas A. Carroll
Notary Public L.S.
Revenue Stamps
$2.50
Received for record Feb 6th 1899 at Northbrook Stu.
and recorded by George Grove Town Clerk
This Indenture made this second day of January
AD, 1899, by and between the Smith & Sewall Granite
Company, a corporation duly created and existing under
and by virtue of the laws of the State of Rhode Island,
party of the first part, and the Industrial Trust Company
a corporation duly created and existing under and by
virtue of the laws of the State of Rhode Island, hereinafter
called the Trustee, party of the second part.
Witnesseth, Whereas the Smith & Sewall Granite
Company is desirous of purchasing and acquiring the
property of the Dwight Sewall Company, and whereas
to enable such purchase to be made and to effect the
other purposes in this indenture expressed, the Smith
& Sewall Granite Company has duly determined to
issue its bonds, to the amount of $20,000, numbered
consecutively from 1 to 400, both inclusive, for $50 each
the payment of all said bonds, interest as well as
principal to be secured by these presents, and said
bonds and the coupons and interest certificates thereon
to be issuable as follows:
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United States of America
State of Rhode Island
$500. $500.
The Smith & Sewall Granite Company of Westerly R.I.
6% First Mortgage 20 year Gold Bond. No.
The Smith & Sewall Granite Company, of Westerly, Rhode
Island, a corporation duly created and existing under the
laws of the State of Rhode Island, for value received hereby
promises to pay the bearer hereof, or if registered, to this registered
owner hereof, on the second day of January, A.D. 1894, the sum
of five hundred dollars in gold coin of the United States of
America, of the present standard of weight and fineness, or its
equivalent, at the office of the Industrial Trust Company of
Providence, Rhode Island, with interest thereon from and after
the date hereof, at the rate of six per cent per annum, payable
in like gold coin, or its equivalent at the same place, semi-
annually on the second days of January and July of each
year, on presentation and surrender of the annexed interest
coupons.
This Bond is one of a series of four
hundred Bonds of like amounts, tenor and date, aggregating
$200,000, numbered consecutively from One to four hundred
both inclusive, the payment of which is secured by and
subject to the terms and conditions of a certain Mortgage
or Deed of Trust bearing date the second day of January
A.D. 1894, executed and delivered by the Smith & Sewall
Granite Company to the Industrial Trust Company as
trustee, mortgaging as security for the payment of the
principal and interest of said Bonds all the real estate
and other property of the Smith & Sewall Granite Company
mentioned and described in said mortgage, with full
power and authority to use and sell in the event of
default in the payment of the Bonds or coupons and
apply the proceeds to the payment of the same.
This Bond shall not be void or negotiable until
authenticated by the signature of the trustee, and shall then
pass by delivery unless it has been registered in the books
of said the Smith & Sewall Granite Company, but after
registration of ownership only certified hereon no transfer
except upon the books of said Company shall be valid
unless the last registration shall have them to bearer and
this Bond shall continue subject to successive registrations
and transfers to the bearer at the option of the holder.
Registry however shall not restrain the transfer of
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5.
The covenants by delivery
In witness whereof the
said the Smith & snowfall Granite Company has caused
these presents to be signed by its President and its corporate
seal duly attested by its Secretary, to be hereunto affixed, and
has caused to be affixed conform with the name of its treasurer
engraved thereon, and has caused this Bond to be dated
the second day of January AD 1899.
The Smith & snowfall Granite Company
By
President
Attest
Secretary.
Conform 8 1/2;
The Smith & snowfall Granite Company,
of North Kingstown Rhode Island,
Will pay to the bearer at the office of the Industrial
Trust Company, of Providence, Rhode Island,
Eighteen Dollars
in United States gold coin, or its equivalent on the
second day of [illegible] being six months interest
on its First Mortgage 6% gold Bond
Treasurer,
Trustees Certificate
The Industrial Trust Company of Providence Rhode
Island hereby certifies that the within Bond is one of the
series and issue described in the mortgage thereon mentioned
Industrial Trust Company
By
Trustee
President.
Now therefore in consideration of the premises and of
the agreements hereinafter named, and of one dollar
to it paid by the said Trustee, and in order to secure
the due and prompt payment of the principal and
interest of all the bonds aforesaid at any time outstanding
the said the Smith & snowfall Granite Company has
granted, bargained, sold, assigned, transferred, conveyed
and delivered and by these presents does grant, bargain,
sell, assign, transfer, convey and deliver unto the said
trustee, its successors and assigns the following
described real estate, easements, rights, privileges and
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6 other property lying and being in the Towns of Westerly and
Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode
Island to wit. That tract of land situated in the Town
of Westerly beginning at the northwest corner of land now
or formerly belonging to Edwin Wheeler, and the Southwest
corner of the said Wheeler conveyed situated at the East
side of the highway known as the Post Road, thence Southerly
21° and 27' West 830 feet 830 feet to the Northwest corner of lot no
19 on a map of Building lots belonging to Gerlands S smith Estate,
surveyed and drawn by G. T. Lonsdale C. E. 1873" thence
Southerly 83° and 12' East 186 feet 186 feet thence Southerly 6° and
48' West 70 feet thence Northwesterly 13 feet to the Southeast
corner of School district lot CH 2, thence Northerly about
98 feet to the Northwest corner of said School district lot no
2, thence Northwesterly 49 feet to the Northwest corner of lot
no 45 on said map, thence Southerly 6° and 48' West 70
feet thence Southerly 83° and 12' West 289 feet 289 feet to the
highway known as the Post Road, thence Southerly on said
highway 140 feet to the Northwest corner of lot no 14 on said
map, thence Southerly 83° and 12' East 215 feet to the
Northwest corner of lot no 42, thence Northerly 6° and 48'
East 810 feet to the Northwest corner of lot no 31 on said
map, thence Northerly 83° and 12' 75 feet thence Northerly
65° and 48' West 174 feet to a proposed street, thence in a
Northerly direction across said proposed street 67 feet
to a stone bound thence Southerly 23° and 31' East 119 feet
to a stone bound set at a point where the present gate post
stands, thence Northerly 66° and 44' West 122 feet to a stone
bound, thence Northerly 35° and 44' West 100 feet to a stone
bound set in the ground 15 feet Northerly from the corner
of an old or stone wall, thence Northerly 78° and 33' West 88
feet to a stone bound set in the centre of driveway and
on the East line of the highway or Post Road, so called,
21 feet Northerly from the corner of a well, thence Southerly
3° and 32' East 1905 feet to the South line of former St
boundedly Westerly by the Post Road, thence Southerly 80° and
23' East 163 feet thence Easterly 220 feet to a rock with
a drill hole in it and letter Lo cut in said rock, situated
on the South side of Lower St, thence Southerly 31° and 58' East
90 feet to a stone bound marked "A" thence Southerly 19°
and 22' East 171 feet to a stone bound marked "B" thence
Southerly 23° and 3' West 315 feet to a stone bound
marked "C" and an iron pin in rock, thence Southerly
38° East 498 feet to a stone bound marked "D" thence
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Southerly 20° and 53' East 390 feet to a stone bound marked
"E"; thence Southerly 71° and 54' East 102 feet to a stone bound
marked "F"; thence Southerly 78° and 38' East 219 feet to a stone
bound standing by wall marked "G"; thence Southerly 76° and
24' East 434 feet to a stone bound marked "H"; thence Southerly
11° and 58' West 463 feet to the corner of a wall; thence Southerly
77° and 18 East 1304 feet to a wall; thence again Southerly
bounded Southerly by land now or formerly belonging to James
Greenley to the Northeasterly corner of the land hereby conveyed;
thence Southerly bounded Easterly by land of Alfred Chapman
and heirs of anima Thrasher; thence Southwesterly to the
end of a wall; thence again Northeasterly and Westerly
about 2200 feet to the land of Eleanor Wheeler, bounded
Southerly by land of John Holmes and his wife and James
Garrod; thence Southerly bounded Westerly by the Wheeler
land 247 feet thence Westerly bounded Southerly by said
Wheeler land 860 feet to the point of beginning. Being
part of the premises conveyed to the Smith Granite Company
by Leland R. Smith, Isaac S. Smith and Julia E. Smith
by deed recorded in the Bound Evidence Records of said
Westerly in Book 42 p 164, also that
tract of land containing by estimation about 47 and 11/100
acres situated partially in the Towns of Westerly and
Charlestown, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the highway at the Southeast
corner of the lot herein conveyed and the Southeast corner
of land now or formerly belonging to the heirs of Perry
Healy; thence Southerly 88° and 18' West 905 feet to a
stone bound marking the southwest corner of said lot,
bounded Southerly by the land of the heirs of Perry Healy;
thence Southerly 7° and 40' East 1454 feet to an iron bolt
driven in a ledge at the corner of an old wall; thence
Southerly 67° and 27' West 214 feet to a stone bound; thence
Southerly 65° and 17' East 798 feet over a boundary post
on the North side of a path to a boundary post set at
the corner about 20 feet West of a ledge; thence Southerly
63° and 20' West 544 feet to a split boulder rock with drill
hole and letter "B" cut in rock, bounded Westerly and
Southerly by lands of Perry Healy and others; thence
Southerly following the line of an old wall 554 feet to a
stone post set in the ground on the South side of a dirt
path bounded on the West by lands of Peter Parks;
thence Southerly 38° and 12' East 384 feet to a letter "B"
out in the ledge thence Southerly 55° East 802 feet to the
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highway bounded Northerly by lands of Gardner & Davis;
thence Southerly bounded Eastly by the highway 2325 feet to
the place of beginning. Also that other tract of land
containing by estimation 10 and 1/4 acres situated in the town
of Pawtucket, and bounded and described as follows; commencing
at the Southwest corner of land now or formerly belonging
to Al. Kernutt and the Northwest corner of the land therein
conveyed, at a stone set in the ground; thence Southerly 7°
and 30' East 336 feet to a point on the ledge marked with
the letter "B"; thence Southerly 8° and 21' East 223 feet to a
point on the ledge marked with the letter "B"; thence Southeasterly
74° and 15' East crossing the north and of the ledge, and
also over a large boulder, the both points of which are
marked, 663 feet to a point in the wall 4 feet South
of a white oak tree; thence Northerly 18° East as the wall
runs, runs 240 feet to an angle in the wall; thence Northeasterly
16° and 15' East 140 feet to a stone bound by the land of
Al. Kernutt; thence Northerly 88° West 623 feet to the place
of beginning, bounded Northerly on land of Al. Kernutt,
and Easterly, Southerly and Westerly by land of the heirs
of Perry Healy. Also that other tract of land containing
by estimation 9 and 1/2 acres, situated in the town of Pawtucket
and bounded and described as follows, beginning at a
corner of the wall on the Southwest corner of the lot herein
conveyed; thence Northerly 4° and 30' East 366 feet to a fence
and post by lands of Ebenezer Crockett; thence Southeasterly
87° East 142 feet to a fence post; thence Southerly 5° and
45' East 280 feet to the highway, bounded Westerly by the
lands of James Bromley and Ebenezer Crockett; thence
Southerly 83° East 640 feet to a stone bound set on the south
side of road wall, bounded Northerly by the highway; thence
Southerly 5° West 610 feet to a stone bound set in a wall
near a marked tree; thence Northerly 86° West 709 feet
to the place of beginning. Said three last mentioned lots
being the same premises described in a deed from Mary
A. Jowall and David Mc. Jowall to the Smith & Jowall
Granite Company, which said deed is recorded in the
said Evidence Records said Pawtucket in Book 10
33 at page 409, and also in Colehastorn in Book 10 14
at page 1; reference to said deed being hereby made for a
further description. Together with all and singular
the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto
belonging, in any wise appertaining, and the reservations
reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, income
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and profits thereof and also all the estate right title and interest
property possession claim and demand whatsoever as well in law
as in equity of the Smith & Sewall Granite Company of in and
to the same and every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances
and all improvements thereon and also all singular or
personal property engines boilers machinery tool implements
and all appurtenances contracts agreements and patented
or other processes for the proper working of a granite quarry all
of which personal property is hereby declared to be fixed and
appurtenances of said granite quarry and parts of the same
and also all improvements or additions made or to be made
to said plants and properties real and personal and all
replacements of the same or the appurtenances thereof and also
all and every other estate right and interest and privilege
corporate or otherwise profit and thing real personal or
mixed which the Smith & Sewall Granite Company now owns
or holds or may or shall hereafter acquire own or hold
To have and to hold all and singular the above granted
real estate easements rights privilege and other properties
with the appurtenances unto the said Trustees and its successors
and assigns in said trust forever in trust nevertheless in trust
the provisions hereinafter set forth for the equal and pro rata
use benefit and security of the several holders of the time
being of the bonds hereby secured or intended to be
without any preference as to any of said bonds issued here-
under by reason of priority in time of signing or negotiation
or otherwise provided however that if the Smith & Sewall
Granite Company shall pay the principal and interest
of all of said bonds according to the terms of the bonds
and of this mortgage and the reasonable compensation
and lawful charges of the Trustees and all other underlying
charges all the estate and interest of the trustees in
said real estate easements rights privileges and other
properties and all hers thereon by reason of this mortgage
shall cease It is hereby agreed that the further
provisions under which said bonds are to be issued by the
Smith & Sewall Granite Company and to be held by the
Trustees are as follows First The Smith
& Sewall Granite Company shall pay the principal of
all the bonds issued under this mortgage when the principal
shall become due by the terms of the bonds and it
shall pay the interest thereon according to the terms of the
bonds upon the presentations and surrender of the proper
coupons for such interest and until the principal is paid
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without deductions from principal or interest of any tax which
the Smith & Sewall Granite Company may be required to pay
thereon or to retain therefrom. No bond shall be valid as
secured under this mortgage or deed of trust receipt unless shall be
authenticated by the certificate of the Industrial Trust Company
indorsed thereon, signed by said Trust Company, and such
certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the validity of such
bond. When and as the coupons attached to the said
bonds mature and become payable, they shall be paid by the
Smith & Sewall Granite Company and the coupons cancelled
and no purchase or sale of said coupons or of any of them,
and no advance or loan thereon by or on behalf of or at the
request of the Smith & Sewall Granite Company after
the same shall have been detached from the bonds to which
they belong, shall keep such coupons alive or preserve their
liens upon the property but nothing herein contained shall
be intended or construed to prevent the Smith & Sewall
Granite Company by arrangement with the holder or holders
thereof from extending the time of payment or of changing
the rate of interest or any of all said bonds, and any
such extended or changed bond, and the coupons thereon,
shall retain all the benefits and protection of this mortgage
to the same extent as if such extensions or changes had not
been made. The Smith & Sewall Granite Company
further covenants that it shall and will pay all taxes,
rates, levies and assessments lawfully levied or assessed
upon all and singular the property hereby mortgaged,
or expressed or intended to be, or upon any part
thereof as and when the same shall become lawfully
due and payable, and will not suffer any mechanic's,
laborer's, statutory or other lien to remain outstanding upon
the hereby mortgaged premises, or any part thereof, the
lien whereof might or could be held to be prior to the lien
of these presents, and will not suffer any matter or
thing whatsoever whereby the lien hereof might or could
be impaired; and also it all times during the continuance
of this mortgage will name and keep insured from loss or
damage by fire all and singular the buildings and other
improvements upon or belonging to said granted estates,
together with the personal property in a sum of not less than
Forty thousand dollars in the name of the said the Smith
& Sewall Granite Company, its successors or assigns, but
so that the loss, if any, shall be or become payable to
the said Trustee or Trustees and in such office or
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offices as shall from time to time be approved by the said Trustee
or Trustees, and will from time to time immediately after effecting
any such insurance and the payment of any premium for the
same, deliver to the Trustees for the time being the policy
or policies of such insurance, and the receipts for such premiums,
and in case of default in so securing or maintaining insurance
or in delivering the said policies and receipts, as aforesaid, then
and in every such case it shall be lawful for the said Trustee
to effect and maintain such insurance either in its own
name or in the name of the said the Smith & Newell Granite
Company, for its use and benefit, and all moneys paid
therefor, shall, with interest thereon, be a lien and charge upon
said estate and personal property for the time being secured by
this mortgage, in the same manner as the said bonds are
secured thereby.
And it is hereby further agreed that in
case of loss by fire at any time to the building or other
property mentioned in this mortgage, or intended so to be, all
insurance moneys received by the trustee for or in respect
thereof shall after the payment therefrom of the expenses of or
incident to the recovery of the same, and said bonds
and interest of any which shall then be overdue and unpaid
be paid to the said the S. Smith & Newell Granite Company,
its successors or assigns, in proportion as it shall apply the
property so destroyed or damaged, provided that the said
S Smith & Newell Granite Company shall elect to rebuild and
replace said property, and of such election shall, within sixty
days, notify the trustee, and shall present to the said
trustee proper receipts or other vouchers from the architects
builders, or other parties rebuilding or replacing said
property, or upon such other evidence as shall be satisfying
to the said trustee. In case the Smith & Newell
Granite Company shall not within sixty days after such
loss replace or commence to replace and restore the property
so destroyed or damaged, then the said trustee shall pay
out and distribute such insurance moneys remaining
in its hands in the same manner as herein provided as
to moneys received from sale under the power of sale
hereinafter contained. And the Smith & Newell
Granite Company will, and its successors or assigns
shall, at any time hereafter while this mortgage is
outstanding, as security for the bonds therein described,
upon the request of the said Industrial Trust Company,
or its successors in said trust make all such further
assurances for the more effectual conveying of the said
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premises and property, or any part thereof as the said industrial
Trust company, its successors or assigns, may reasonably
require.
Second. Until the Smith & snowfall Granite
Company shall have made default in the payment of the
principal or interest of any of the bonds hereby secured, or
intended so to be, or in the performance of the covenants, or any
of them herein expressed to be kept and performed by the
Smith & snowfall Granite Company it shall have the
possession, use, enjoyment and control of all the property
covered by this mortgage, with all appurtenances, and shall
receive the rents, issues, income and profits thereof, with the
right at all times to alter, change, add to, repair, devise of
replace any and all machinery and fixtures, provided
only that the security of said bonds shall not thereby be
in any way reduced or impaired.
Third. In case default shall be made in the payment
of any interest becoming upon one or more of the bonds
hereby secured, or intended so to be, according to the terms
thereof, or on any day when the same shall become due,
and such default shall continue for three months, or in
case the Smith & snowfall Granite Company shall
neglect to make payment of any tax, levy or assessment
herein agreed, for the period of three months after the
same shall have become fully due and payable,
and the payment thereof shall have been demanded
by the Trustees, then and in any such case the Smith
& snowfall Granite Company, upon demand of the
Trustees, and at the request in meeting of the holders
for the time being of a majority in value of the then
outstanding bonds hereby secured, or intended so to be,
shall and will forthwith surrender to the said trustee
the actual possession, and the said trustee shall be
entitled forthwith to enter into and upon and take
possession of all and singular the property and
premises hereby mortgaged, or intended to be and
each and every part thereof with all recorded books,
papers and accounts of the Smith & snowfall Granite
Company and shall have, hold and use the same,
controlling, managing and operating by its superintendents,
managers, servants or their agents or attorneys the said
property, with the appurtenances, and collecting the
rents and profits thereof, and exercising all
the rights appertaining thereto, and making from time
to time at the expense of the trust estate all repairs
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and replacements, and such useful additions, alterations and
improvements thereof and thereunto as to the said Trustee may seem
proper and judicious, and may collect and receive all income,
rent, issues and profits of the same, and every part thereof and
after deducting all expenses of maintaining, managing and
operating said property, and conducting the business thereof and
of all repairs, replacements, additions, alterations and improve-
ments so made, and all pay-ments made for taxes, levies,
and assessments, insurance premiums, and other proper
charges upon said property, or any part thereof, and as
well just compensation for the services of the trustee, its
agents, clerks, servants, attorneys and counsel, shall apply
The remainder of the moneys so received be as follows:
In case the principal moneys secured by said bonds
shall not have become due, or have been declared due, to
the payment of the interest in default in the order of the
maturity of the installments of such interest, and in case
said principal moneys shall have become due, or have
been declared due, then to the payment of the principal and
accrued interest upon said bonds, pro rata, without any
preference or priority whatsoever, and without preference of
interest over principal, or of principal over interest.
Fourth. In case of any default on the part of the Smith
&arnell Granite Company as mentioned in article Third
hereof, or in case the Smith &arnell Granite Company
shall make default in the performance of any provision of
this mortgage, then, and in any such case, if the holders of
a majority in value of the their outstanding bonds hereby
secured, or intended so to be, elect, and if so requested by
the trustee shall deposit their bonds with the trustee, and
shall notify the trustee in writing of such election, the whole
of the principal of all bonds hereby secured, or intended so
to be, and then outstanding, shall forthwith be declared by the
trustee to be, and shall immediately become due and
payable, anything herein or in said bonds to the contrary
notwithstanding. The principal of the bonds secured
hereby, or intended so to be, having become due at maturity
as in this article provided, it shall be lawful for the
trustee to proceed to sell at public auction to the
highest bidder all and singular the properties hereby
mortgaged, or intended so to be, that shall then be subject
to the lien, operation and effect of this indenture, with
the appurtenances, and all benefit and equity of
redemption of the Smith &arnell Granite Company.
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14 its successors or assigns, therein, Such sale shall be
made by the Trustee, or by its attorney or attorneys, agent
or agents, in the Town of Westerly, in the State of Rhode Island,
after notices of the time and place of sale and of the
Property to be sold shall have been given by the Trustee by
publication thereof in at least one daily newspaper published
in the said Town of Westerly, and in at least one daily
newspaper published in the City of Providence State of Rhode
Island over in each made for not less than six consecutive
weeks together with such other notices, if any, as may be
required by law) and the Trustee may without further
advertising such sale, adjourn the same from time to time
for such period or periods as it may deem advisable, and
after such sale shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to
the purchaser or purchasers a good and sufficient deed
of conveyance of said real property, and title of said
personally property, which shall be a bar against the
Smith & Sewall Granite Company, its successors and
assigns, and all persons claiming by, through or under
it or them, with respect to any of the property so sold.
The Smith & Sewall Granite Company shall and
will, if and when thereto required, make, execute
and deliver such deeds and other instruments as it shall
be reasonably advised or required to confirm and assure
such title and ownership to and to such purchaser or
purchasers, the receipt of the Trustee shall be a
sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers of all
the property so sold, or any part thereof, for his or
their purchase money; and the purchaser shall not be
bound to see to the Specification of the purchase money.
Upon the making of any such sale, the Trustee shall
apply the proceeds thereof as follows:
First To the payment of the costs and expenses of such
sale, including reasonable compensation to the Trustee,
its agents, attorneys, and committee, and all expenses,
liabilities and advances made by and incurred by
the Trustee, or under its authority, in managing,
maintaining and protecting the hereby mortgaged property
and all taxes, assessments insurance premiums and
their charges thereon,
And Second To the payment of the whole amount of the principal
and interest then owing or unpaid upon said bond, or
any of them, whether said principal by the terms of said
bond be then due or not yet to become due; and in case said
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proceeds are insufficient to pay in full the whole amount of
principal and interest then owing and unpaid upon said
bonds, the same shall be paid ratably in proportion to the amount
unpaid upon those respectively, without preference to any bond
over any of the others, or of interest over principal, or of principal
over interest except that no coupons held upfront from the
bonds to which they respectively belong shall be paid until
the principal of all bonds shall first have been fully paid
and satisfied.
Sixth. To pay over any surplus, if any, on demand to the
Smith & Sewall Granite Company, its successors and assigns
or as any court of competent jurisdiction may direct.
Fifth. In case of any sale of the property hereby
mortgaged, whether made under the powers herein given,
or either of them, or under judicial authority, the puree have
or purchasers shall be entitled to turn in, and apply,
in making payment of the purchase money borrowed
upon which said sale the bonds or coupons secured hereby,
reckoning such bonds or coupons for such purpose, at
a sum not exceeding that which shall be payable out of
the net proceeds of such sale to the holder or holders of such
bonds or coupons for his or their just share of the net
proceeds of sale upon due apportionment of and
accounting for said net proceeds,
Seventh. The Trustee may resign the trust hereby created
and become and remain wholly discharged of all further
responsibility thereunder upon giving sixty days notice in
writing to the Smith & Sewall Granite Company, or such
short notice as the Smith & Sewall Granite Company
may accept as sufficient. In case of a resignation
or removal of any Trustee under this deed of trust, a new
Trustee shall be appointed by the said Smith & Sewall
Granite Company, by an instrument in writing under
its seal, and notified thereof by advertisement published
at least once a week for three successive weeks in a daily
newspaper published in the Town of Westerly in the State of
Rhode Island, and also in a daily newspaper published
in the City of Providence, and unless a majority in
interest of the holders of the said bonds then outstanding
shall within thirty days from the date of such last
publication make objection by an instrument in writing
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16 signed by them and delivered to the said The S. Smith & Sewall
Granite Company, the said appointment shall at the expiration
of said thirty days be considered as assented to and confirmed
by the holders of the bonds secured hereby. In case such
objection by a majority in interest of the holders of said
bonds should be made as aforesaid, the said the Smith
& Sewall Granite Company shall then apply to the
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the state of
Rhode Island, or other the Tribunal of said state exercising
due jurisdiction, to appoint another Trustee or such other
executor or person as such court shall deem proper.
Every new Trustee shall, in immediately upon appointment
and by virtue thereof, be vested with all the property and
have all the rights, powers and discretion then belonging to
the Trustee under this mortgage. The word Trustee
as used in this mortgage shall be construed to mean the
Trustee for the time being.
Eighth. The Trustee shall, upon payment of the principal
and interest of all the bonds secured hereby according to
their terms, and to the terms of this mortgage, and payment
of the reasonable compensation and lawful charges of the
Trustee and all necessary charges, fees, expenses, accounts
agree and deliver, on demand, any instrument which the
Smith & Sewall Granite Company shall deem necessary
or proper to secure the cancellation of this mortgage and
the satisfaction thereof on the record.
Ninth. If any bond issued hereunder shall be mutilated
lost or destroyed, the Smith & Sewall Granite Company may,
upon terms and conditions prescribed by its Board of
Directors, issue in lieu thereof a new bond of like tenor,
amount and date, and bearing the same revival number,
which bond when so issued shall be entitled by the Trustee
whenever the Trustee shall receive proof of such mutilation,
loss or destruction and indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee.
Tenth. The Trustee, for itself and its successors or assigns,
hereby accepts the trust and assumes the duties herein
created and imposed when if but only upon the following
terms and conditions, to wit: (1st) the receipts of bonds
herein contained, and endorsed in the bonds hereby secured,
shall be taken as statements of the Smith & Sewall Granite
Company, and shall not be confirmed as made by the
Trustee, (2nd) the Trustee shall have a first lien
upon the mortgaged property and fund for its reasonable
expenses, trustee fees and compensation incurred in and
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about the execution of the trust hereby created, and in the exercise
and performance of its powers and duties hereunder,
(3) The Trustee shall be under no obligation or duty to perform
any act hereunder, or defend any suit in respect hereof, unless
reasonably indemnified, the Trustee shall not be bound to
recognize any person as a bond holder unless his
bonds are deposited with the Trustee, if required, and his
title satisfactorily established, if disputed,
(4) The exclusive right of action hereunder shall be vested in
the Trustee with refusal or failure on its part to act and
no bond holder shall be entitled to enforce the present
writ after demand made upon the Trustee, accompanied by
an offer to deposit said bonds with the Trustee, and by
tender of indemnity as aforesaid, and a refusal by the
Trustee to act in accordance with said demand and said
Trustee shall not be or become liable or responsible for any
act, matter or thing whatever, except its own willful and
intentional breach of the trust herein reserved and
contained.
In testimony whereof the
Smith & Cornwall Granite Company has caused these presents
to be executed by Orlando R. Smith its President and its
corporate seal to be hereunto affixed by John P. Randall,
its Secretary, hereunto duly authorized; and the said
Industrial Trust Company has caused these presents to be
signed and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed by
Samuel P. Leolt its President and Cyrus P. Brown its
Treasurer, hereunto duly authorized this second day of
January AD 1879
In presence of
Thomas A. Carroll
to both signatures
[Revenue Stamps]
$1.00
J. J. Matson Jr. a. h.
S. B. & Co. L. P.
The Smith & Cornwall Granite Company
by Orlando R. Smith President
John P. Randall Secretary L.S.
Industrial Trust Company
Samuel P. Leolt President
Cyrus P. Brown Treasurer L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Providence
In the City of Providence, in said County this 2nd
day of January AD 1879 personally appeared before me the
above named Orlando R. Smith President and John P.
Randall Secretary of the Smith & Cornwall Granite Company
both to me known and known by me to be the parties
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who appeared the foregoing instrument in the name and
behalf of the said the Smith & Tenwell Granite Company
and acknowledged the same to be their free act and deed
and the free act and deed of the said the Smith & Tenwell
Granite Company.
Thomas Tenwell
Notary Public LD
Received for record Feb 4, 1899 at 11:30 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by George Colburn Town Clerk
For discharge of above mortgage see page 201
This Indenture made this twenty fifth day of February
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety
nine, between Arthur Converse and Hattie A. Converse, his wife, of
the City of Derry in the County of Rockingham and State of New
Hampshire, parties of the first part and Helen M. Hudson of the Village
of Lovingleigh, in the County of Rockingham and State of New
Hampshire, party of the second part. Witnesseth, That the said parties
of the first part in consideration of the sum of Three thousand
dollars ($3,000) to them duly paid, the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged, have sold and by these presents do grant and
convey to the said party of the second part her heirs and
assigns of forever, all those rights or parcels of land, situate
in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of
Rhode Island, described as follows: To wit, A certain lot or
parcel of land, situate near snooze Long Beach, in the Town
of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island,
and bounded as follows to wit: Beginning at a point boundary
feet (20) West from a cross cut in a wall stone in the
Northwest corner of the lot formerly owned by the heirs of Jared
Babcock, thence Southly twenty (20) feet to a stake at the
corner of lot recently sold to Samuel P. Ennis, thence Southly
along the line of said Ennis about 200 feet to the sea, thence
Westly by the sea about 670 feet to land of Henry G. Carpenter,
thence Northly along line of land Carpenter about 200 feet to
land of Jared Babcock's heirs, thence Eastly along line of said
Babcock land to point of beginning, and containing by
estimation five (5) acres more or less, Reserving however a
right of way to pass and repass on foot or horse or teams for
the owners and occupants of the lot recently sold to Samuel
P. Ennis said right of way being along the line and within
Twenty (20) feet of the wall which constitutes the western boundary