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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME: I, WILLIAM D. CROSS, Collector of Taxes, for the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for the year 1939, SEND GREETING: WHEREAS the taxpayers of said Town of Charlestown, at their annual Financial Town Meeting duly notified and held on the 10th day of April, A. D. 1939, voted and ordered the assessment and collection of a tax on the ratable real estate and tangible personal property of the owners of real and personal estate in said Town of Charlestown; AND WHEREAS, on the 15th day of June, A. D. 1939, the Board of Tax Assessors of said Town made such assessment and fixed the rate thereon of $1.30 on one hundred dollars valuation of the ratable real estate and tangible personal property, and the tax bill in due form delivering me to write the warrant duly signed attached thereto, by the Town Treasurer, of said Town, requiring me to proceed according to law and collect said tax and place the same in the Town Treasury of said Town.
AND WHEREAS, Gretta K. Dunn neglected to pay the tax assessed against her as expressed in said tax bill amounting to Two Dollars Ninety-three cents ($2.93) and in consequence thereof I did on the 1st day of May, A. D. 1940 levy said warrant upon that certain tract or parcel of land shown and designated as Lot 19, Assessors' Plat 3, and appearing on Original Tax List and Tax Bill 1939, (also notice of levy served according to law), belonging to said Gretta K. Dunn in said Charlestown and did advertise the same for sale at four full public places in said Town of Charlestown, viz: Wright's Garage, the store of E. C. Brown & Son, Grimelle's Garage and the post Office at Charlestown, R. I., for more than twenty days previous to said sale, and also in the South County News, a newspaper published in said County of Washington, for more than twenty days previous to said sale, and on the 11th day of July, A. D. 1940, at one o'clock, p. m., Daylight Saving Time, at the Town Hall, in said Town, I proceeded to sell at Public Auction, by Robert P. Day, a qualified auctioneer, the premises aforesaid, and no bid better offering I, William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, aforesaid, then and more made public declaration that I was purchasing the above described premises for the Town of Charlestown, aforesaid, at the amount of tax, charges and expenses of sale. NOW, KNOW YE, that in consideration of the sum of Ten Dollars Ninety-three cents ($10.93) to me paid by said Town of Charlestown the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, I do hereby sell and convey unto said Town of Charlestown, its successors and assigns, forever, all the right, title and interest which said Gretta K. Dunn, had in and to said premises at the time of assessing said tax, with all the appurtenances thereto belonging; for a description of said premises, reference is hereby had and made to Assessors' Plats and Cards on file in the office of the Town Clerk of said Town of Charlestown and to the Land Evidence Records of said Town.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to the said Town of Charlestown, its successors and assigns, forever, (subject to the right of redemption as provided by law).
And I, the said William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, as aforesaid, do covenant with the said Town of Charlestown, its successors and assigns, that I have advertised the said property as hereinbefore stated and have complied with the terms of the law regulating the collection of taxes.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 23rd day of July, A. D. 1940.
In the presence of:
Linton L. Brown.
(STATE OF RHODE ISLAND)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 23rd day of July, A. D. 1940, before me personally appeared William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, aforesaid, and proved to me his identity to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument, by him executed, to be his own free act and deed, individually, and in his official capacity aforesaid.
LINTON L. BROWN, Notary Public.
Received for record July 24th, A. D. 1940 at 9:35 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by,
[Signature]
Town Clerk
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