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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.)
County of Washington }
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TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforementioned premises, with their appurtenances, unto and
to the use of the said The Washington Trust Company, its Successors and Assigns, forever.
And we the said mortgagors do hereby, for ourselves and for our heirs, executors
and administrators, covenant with the said The Washington Trust Company, its Successors and
Assigns, that we are lawfully seized in fee simple of the said granted premises; that the
same are free from all incumbrances; that we have good right, full power and lawful author-
ity to sell and convey the same in manner aforesaid; that the said The Washington Trust
Company, its Successors and Assigns shall, by these presents at all times hereafter peace-
ably and quietly have and enjoy the said premises, and that we the said mortgagors will,
and our heirs, executors and administrators shall, warrant and defend the same to the said
The Washington Trust Company, its Successors and Assigns, forever, against the lawful claims
and demands of all persons, and will also pay the moneys, taxes and assessments and other
expenses hereby secured as hereinafter provided.
PROVIDED, NEVERTHELESS, that if we, the said mortgagors, or our heirs, executors,
administrators or assigns, shall pay unto the said The Washington Trust Company, its Success-
ors or Assigns, the sum of Seventy-five Hundred ($7500.00) Dollars at its Banking House in
said Westerly, R. I., six (6) months from the date hereof, with interest thereon, at the
rate of five (5%) per centum per annum payable semi-annually in advance until said princi-
pal sum is paid, whether at or after maturity, and all installments of interest in arrears,
whether, before or after maturity, to bear interest at the rate aforesaid until paid; and
shall also pay all taxes and assessments of every kind assessed or imposed upon or in respect
of said premises, or upon said The Washington Trust Company, its Successors or Assigns, in
respect of this mortgage or mortgage debt, whether under statutes now in force or that may
be hereafter enacted, and shall maintain insurance on said premises as her-inafter provided
and pay the premiums therefor upon demand, all of said payments to be paid at the several
times of payment in currency of the United States, then this deed as also a promissory note
whereby said mortgagors promise to pay the said The Washington Trust Company or order, the sum
aforesaid with interest as aforesaid at the times aforesaid, shall become and be absolutely
void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
BUT IF DEFAULT shall be made in the payment of the said principal sum or of said
interest at the times and in the manner aforesaid, or of the taxes or assessments aforesaid
as the same first become payable, or of any either of them, or of any part thereof, or if
breach shall be made of the covenant for insurance hereinafter contained, then it shall be
lawful for the said The Washington Trust Company, its Successors or Assigns, to sell, togeth-
er or in parcels, all and the singular the premises hereby granted, or intended to be granted, or
any part or parts thereof, and the benefit and equity of redemption of the said mortgagors
and their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns therein, at public auction, and to
bid for and become the purchaser at any such sale, and no other purchaser shall be answer-
able for the application of the purchase money, first giving notice of the time and place
of sale, by publishing the same at least once each week for three successive weeks in some
newspaper published in said Town of Charlestown, R. I., with power to adjourn such sale from
time to time, provided that the publication of said notice shall be continued, together with
a notice of the adjournment or adjournments, at least once each week in the same newspaper;
and such sale to be upon the premises or elsewhere as specified in such notice; and in its
or their own name names, or as the attorney or attorneys of the said mortgagors (for that
purpose) by these presents duly authorized and appointed with full power of substitution and
revocation), to make execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers at such sale or sales,
good and sufficient deed or deeds of the premises sold in fee simple; and to receive the
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purchase moneys, and therefrom to retain all sums hereby secured, whether then payable or to
become payable thereafter, or the part thereof then remaining unpaid, and also the interest
then due on the same, together with all expenses incident to such sale or sales, and all
counsel fees and other expenses, incurred in, or in any way connected with, the exercise of
these powers and all taxes, and assessments as aforesaid and all premiums for Insurance,
either theretofore paid by the said The Washington Trust Company, its Successors or Assigns,
or then remaining unpaid, rendering and paying the surplus of said purchase moneys, if any
there be over and above the amounts so to be retained as aforesaid, together with a true and
particular account of such sale or sales, expenses and charges, to the said mortgagors, their
heirs, executors administrators or assigns, which sale or sales shall be forever a perpetual
bar both in law and equity against the said mortgagors, and their heirs, executors, adminis-
trators and assigns, and all persons claiming said premises so sold by, from, under them or
any of them.
And we the said mortgagors for ourselves and for our heirs, executors, administrators
and assigns, hereby covenant with the said The Washington Trust Company, its Successors and
Assigns, that we or they will upon request execute such deed or deeds confirmatory of such
sale or sales as may be necessary or advisable.
And FURTHERMORE, we the said mortgagors, for ourselves and for our heirs, executors,
administrators and assigns, hereby covenant with the said The Washington Trust Company, its
Successors and Assigns, that insurance against loss by fire or any other casualty which may be
so specified by the mortgagee shall be kept and maintained on the buildings on the premises
aforesaid in such office or offices as the said Company, its Successors and Assigns, shall
approve, in a sum not less than Seven-ty-five Hundred ($\text{7,500.00}$) Dollars or in such greater
amounts as will prevent the operation of co-insurance clauses contained in such polices of
insurance, and that the policy or policies of insurance shall be assigned and transferred,
or made payable in case of loss, to the said The Washington Trust Company, its Successors and
Assigns, as collateral security hereto, and in default thereof hereby agree that said The Wash-
ington Trust Company, its Successors or Assigns, may pay from time to time any premiums which
may be necessary to maintain existing insurance or may effect new insurance; and the said mort-
gagors for themselves and for their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns agree to repay
to the said The Washington Trust Company, its Successors or Assigns, upon demand any premiums
paid by it or them, and if not repaid, the same shall be added to said principal sum and
shall be a further charge upon said premises granted and secured by these presents, as
aforesaid.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 2nd day of September,
A. D. one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight.
Signed, sealed and delivered } GEORGE SOULE (SEAL)
in presence of } LILA CRAPO SOULE (SEAL)
Howard E. Thorp }
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, )
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County of Washington } ss
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In Westerly, on the 2nd day of September, A. D. 1948, before me personally appeared
the above named mortgagors, George Soule and Lila Crapo Soule, husband and wife, each and all
to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and severally
acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
HOWARD E. THORP (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
Received for record September 3rd, A. D. 1948 at 9:08 o'clock a. m., and recorded by
Town Clerk
(FOR DISCHARGE OF THIS MORTGAGE SEE PAGE 679)