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St. Mary's County Department of Land Records - EBA 1/147

Transcription of Actual Mortgage - EBA 1/147, 148, 149, 150

This Mortgage made this 14th day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and ninety nine by us William Chisely, Augustus Brown, William Grey, George Courtney, Thomas Foster, Moses Foster, and John [?]Gilly as Trustees of Galilee M.E. Church and Moses Queen, William Toyer, Emanuel Toyer, Benjamin Jackson and John Boone Trustees of John Wesley M.E. Church, and Philip Tolson, Arthur Rich, Chapmann Gross and Armested Holly, Trustees

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of Mt. Calvary M.E. Church all of St. Mary's County in the State of Maryland. Witnesseth, that in consideration of the sum of Seventy-five Dollars now due from us the aforesaid Trustees and our [?]successors holding the hereafter described property in trust for the benefit of the M.E. Church to Joseph L. Davis and Thos. B. Davis trading as J.L.Davis & [?]Bus. We the aforesaid Trustees do grant unto the said Jos. L. Davis and Thos. B. Davis all that ?lot for parcel of ground situate in Fifth Election District of St. Mary's County in State of Maryland and described as follows: Being the same property this day deeded or granted unto the above Trustees by Joseph L. Davis, Thos. B. Davis and Annie J. Davis, the latters wife and is bounded by the property of Sophrouia Neal on North Thomas D. Edwards on South Public Road leading from Charlotte Hall to Budds Creek on west and extending back from said road a distrance of seventy yards said lot containing one acre. Provided that if the aforesaid Trustees or their successors shall pay to Jos. L. Davis and Thomas B. Davis on either of them for the firm of J.L. Davis & Bro the sum of seventy-five dollars with interest thereon from date on before the expiration of thirty months from this day according to the tenor of the promissory notes of even date herewith payable to the aforesaid J.L. Davis & Bro on order that is to say three notes of twenty five dollars each with interest payable in eighteen twenty four and thirty months from date and one note for interest on principal payable in twelve months then this mortgage shall be void. And the aforesaid Trustees for themselves and their successors hereby covenant that they will pay the aforesaid money according to the tenor of the notes aforesaid. And they further covenant and agree with the siad Jos. L. Davis and Thomas B. Davis and their personal representatives and assignes in like manner that in default of payment of said notes or any[?] of them, the said Jos. L. Davis and Thos. B. Davis may enter and take possession of the property aforesaid.

Provided that until default of payment of the said notes or any of them the said Trustees or their successors shall take possession of hold the premises in trust for the benefit of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States and subject to its dicsipline usage and ministerial appointments. And provided that if default shall be made in the payment of the money aforsaid or the interest thereon at the time or in the manner aforesaid then it shall be lawful for the said Jos. L. Davis and Thos. B. Davis to sell the said mortgaged premises by public auction for cash after giving at least twenty days public notice of time, place and terms of sale in some newspaper publicshed in a foresaid County prior to day of


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