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68 KNOW ALL MEN, That the Westerly
Savings Bank a corporation duly incorporated, and
created by Act of the General Assembly of the State of
Rhode Island, and located and doing business in the
Town of Westerly, County of Washington and said State
of Rhode Island Its Mortgagee named in a certain
Mortgage Deed recorded in the Town of Charlestown R.D. in
Land Evidence Book 17 Page 87 made by Elsie S.
Readman and Eva H. Readman both of said Charlestown
R.I., dated May 8th 1900. In consideration of the sum of
one dollar paid by the Washington Trust Company
a corporation duly incorporated and created by Act
of the General Assembly of the said State of Rhode
Island and located and doing business in said
Westerly, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged paid and
hereby quit bargain sell assign transfer and make
over to the said the Washington Trust Company its
successors and assigns the above described Mortgage
Deed with the note Said claims Hereby received, and
all to its right, title and interest by virtue thereof in
and to the estate described therein
To have and
to hold the same with all of the privileges and
appurtenances Hereunto belonging to it the said the
Washington Trust Company its successors and assigns
in as ample manner as said Savings Bank now
holds the same; and the said the Westerly Savings Bank now
Bank substitutes and appoints the said the Washington
Trust Company, its successors and assigns to be the
Attorney or Attorneys irrevocable of said Mortgageor
under and with all the right and powers in the said
Deed of Mortgage granted and contained.
In testimony whereof the said the Westerly Savings
Bank has caused these presents to be signed and its
seal to be hereunto affixed by Albert B. Chester its
President and Arthur S. Perry its Treasurer for this
purpose duly authorized this 17th day of May AD 1904
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Wm M. Sweeney
Westerly Savings Bank
Westerly R.I.
Albert B. Chester Pres
Arthur S. Perry Treas
State of Rhode Island SS
County of Washington SS
In Westerly in said County on this 17th day
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The Westerly Savings Bank as Mortgagee assigns its interest in a mortgage on land in Charlestown to the Washington Trust Company. Dated May 17, 1904. Recorded May 17, 1904.