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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, state of Rhode Island, for the year 1938,
SEND GREETING: WHEREAS the taxpayers of said Town of Charlestown, at their annual Financial Town Meeting duly notified and held on the 11th day of April, A. D. 1938, voted and ordered the assessment and collection of a tax on the real estate and tangible personal property ensured of the owners of real and personal estate in said Town of Charlestown; AND WHEREAS, on the 15th day of June, A. D. 1938, the Board of Tax Assessors of said Town made such assessment and fixed the rate thereon of $1.20 on each one hundred dollars valuation of the ratable real estate and tangible personal property, and the tax bill in due form delivered to me with 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, EDWARD M. TILLINGNAST, neglected to pay the tax assessed against him as evidenced in said tax bill amounting to Twenty-four Dollars Sixty-four Cents ($24.64) and in consequence thereof i did on the last day of March, A. D. 1939 levy warrant upon that certain tract or parcel of real estate also as designated and shown as Lot 70, Assessors' Plat 2, and appertaining on Original Tax List and Tax Bill 1938, as belonging to said Edward M. Tillingnast, in said Charlestown, and did advertise the same for sale at three public places in said Town of Charlestown, vis: Charlestown Post Office, Freight's Garage, Grinnell's Garage, store of C. Brown & Son, and also in the Westerly Daily Sun, a newspaper published in said County of Washington, for more than twenty days previous to said sale, and on the 6th day of May, A. D. 1939, at 12:30 o'clock, p. m., Western Standard Time, at the Town Hall, in said Town, I proceeded to sell at public auction, by Robert P. Bocelston, a qualified auctioneer, the premises aforesaid, and Ray P. Bocelston, of the Town of North Stonington, State of Connecticut, was the highest bidder.
NOW, KNOW YE, that by consideration of the sum of Thirty-five Dollars seventy-five Cents ($35.75) to me paid by said Ray P. Bocelston the receipt whereof i do hereby acknowledge, i do hereby sell and convey unto said Ray P. Bocelston, his heirs and assigns, forever, all the right, title and interest which said Edward M. Tillingnast 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 made and had 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 Alice G. Brady, her heirs 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 Alice G. Brady, her heirs 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 10th day of May, A. D. 1939.
In the presence of
LINTON L. BROWN
(SEAL)
WILLIAM D. CROSS
Collector of Taxes,
Charlestown for the year 1938.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND )
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 10th day of May, A. D. 1939, before me personally appeared William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, as aforesaid, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument, by him executed, to be by his own free act and deed, individually, and in his official capacity aforesaid.
LINTON L. BROWN, Notary Public.
Received for record May 11th, A. D. 1939 at 9:55 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [?]
Town Clerk
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