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the parties granting the foregoing instrument and he acknowledged said
instrument by him executed to be his free act and deed in his capacity
as aforesaid. George E. Bower
Antony Hubbard
Received for record December 20 @ 1920 at 9 o'clock AM,
and recorded by George E. Bower Town clerk.
To All People to whom these presents shall come, I, Albert E.
Bower, collector of taxes for the town of Charlestown in the county of
Washington, state of Rhode Island for the years 1917, 1918 and 1919,
send Greetings. Whereas, the taxpayers of said town of
Charlestown, at their annual town meetings held duly notified
and held on the 5th day of April 1917, the 4th day of April 1918 and
the 18th day of April 1919 at each meeting that a tax of two
dollars on each one hundred dollars valuation of the taxable real
estate in said town be assessed on or before the first day of
September in each of said years, and voted for they were assessed on
the 15th day of August 1917, the 14th day of August 1918 and
the 13th day of August 1919 in accordance with said votes, and
the Tax lists in detail were delivered to me with the warrant
duly signed attached thereto requiring me to proceed according
to law and collect said tax and place the same in the town
treasury of said town And whereas R. H. Hazard estate
while subject to pay the tax assessed against them amounting
to the sum of six dollars (being one dollar for each of said
years) and in consequence thereof I sold on the 12th day
of October, 1920, leaf said warrant upon a certain tract
of land belonging to said estate situated in said Charlestown,
and sold the same for sale at the most public places in
said Charlestown, namely, at the Town Clerk's office, at the store
of G. Broom & Son and the Post Office and other other
places in said town and also at the Westerly Daily News
a newspaper published in Westerly in said state many times
for more than fourteen days consecutive to sell, and
on the 25th day of October, 1920 after ten o'clock AM, I proceeded to
sell at the best possible auction the premises aforesaid, and the
Hazard Estate Incorporated of South Kingstown, R.I., was
the highest bidder therefore. R.D. Knowles
Now Therefore in consideration of the sum of fourteen dollars
and fifty five cents to be paid by said R. Hazard Estate
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