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378 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, George W. Cross, of the Town of Charlestown,
County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, Collector of Taxes for said Town of Charlestown,
SEND GREETING:
WHEREAS, at the annual town meeting of said town legally helden on the 12th day of
April, A. D. 1937, it was voted by the electors of said town, qualified to vote thereon, that a
tax of One Dollar and Twenty Cents ($\$1.20$) on each One Hundred ($\$100.00$) Dollars should be
assessed upon the taxable real property of said town and,
WHEREAS, said tax was afterwards, to wit, on the 15th day of June, A. D. 1937, assess-
ed by the Board of Tax Assessors of said town according to law, and a copy of the tax list in
due form delivered to me, as Collector, as aforesaid, by the Town Treasurer with a warrant under
the hand of said Treasurer thereunto affixed, commanding me to proceed and collect the several
sums of money therefrom expressed to the persons and estates liable therefor; and
WHEREAS, said Board of Tax Assessors did then and there assess and tax upon the real
estate described hereafter owning Mary F. Walsh, D.B.H.O., A. P. 19, Lot 1, as expressed is
said list delivered to me, an amount to the Sum of Two Hundred Sixteen ($\$216.00$) Dollars, and
in consequence thereof, I, said George W. Cross, Collector, as aforesaid, by virtue and author-
ity vested in me as aforesaid, and pursuant to the statute in such cases provided, did give no
notice of the levy upon said real estate, of the time and place of sale by advertising the same in
a newspaper, to wit: The Shamrock Press, a newspaper printed in said County of Washington, for
a space of three weeks before said sale, and also by posting in cilt of notices for the same period
in three public places in the Town of Charlestown, to wit: in the Town Hall, Town Clerk's Office
and G witty's Filling Station, and did also twenty (20) days prior to said sale cause notices to be
writing of said levy and of the time and place of sale to issue to George E. Petten, mortgages,
and Joseph V. Broderick, Collector of Internal Revenue, Providence, Rhode Island, lien holder
of record, the above only being the only persons or corporations having an interest in said estate
appearing on the records of said Town of Charlestown, which notices were duly served twenty (20)
days previous to said date of sale, and
WHEREAS, no person appearing to redeem said estate or to pay said tax, I, in my capaci-
ty as Collector, as aforesaid, did on the 8th day of July, A. D. 1938, at two o'clock, P. M.,
D.S.T. in the Town Hall in the said Town of Charlestown, pursuant to said notices and levy pro-
ceeded and sold to much of said real estate to wit., who, as was found necessary to pay said
tax, interest, costs and expenses to Wilbur R. Dameron and Mary O. Dameron, husband and wife,
and the survivor of them as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, both of the City of
Dover, County of Kent and State of Delaware, being the highest bidders, therefor, in the sum of
Two Hundred Forty-Two Dollars and Eighteen Cents ($\$242.18$), this being the amount of said tax
remaining unpaid with interest, costs and expenses.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, the said George W. Cross, Collector of Taxes, as aforesaid, in
consideration of the premises, and of the sum of Two Hundred Forty-Two Dollars and Eighteen
Cents ($\$242.18$) to me paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, and pursuant to the
statute in such cases provided, do hereby grant, bargain, sell, convey and deliver unto the
said Wilbur R. Dameron and Mary O. Dameron, husband and wife, and the survivor of them as joint
tenants and not as tenants in common, all the right, title and interest of the premises herein-
before mentioned as notified in and my to Mary F. Walsh, D.B.H.O., A. P. 19, Lot 1, so called,
taxed at Two Hundred Sixteen ($\$216.00$) Dollars, located in said Town of Charlestown, and record-
ed in the Land Evidence Records in the said Town of Charlestown.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto belong-
ing to the said Wilbur R. Dameron and Mary O. Dameron, husband and wife, their heirs and assigns,
to them and their own use forever.
WITNESS my hand and seal as Collector as aforesaid this 12th day of July, A. D. 1938.
GEORGE W. CROSS (SEAL)
Collector of Taxes of the Town
of Charlestown
Signed and sealed in the presence of:
SOUGES R. GILMARTTN