Property Conveyance, Eckles, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.
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Property Conveyance


State of Louisiana
Parish of West Baton Rouge

Be it known that this day, Before me, Oresiphore Bernard, Jr.,
Recorder and Ex-officio Notary Public, in and for the Parish of
West Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, duly commissioned and
sworn and in the presence of the witnesses hereinafter named
and undersigned,

Personally came and appeared, Mrs. Aurore Babin, Widow William
E. Eckles, a resident of this parish, who declared that for
the consideration and upon the terms and conditions hereinafter
expressed to have granted, bargained and sold, as she does by
these presents, grant, bargain, sell, convey, assign, transfer,
deliver and set over with a full guarantee against all troubles,
debts, mortgages, suits or other encumbrances whatsoever, unto
Messrs. Wilfred Chemin of the parish of West Baton Rouge and
Jean Baptiste Chemin of the Parish of Pointe Coupee, here present,
accepting and purchasing for themselves, their heirs and assigns
and acknowledging due delivery and possession thereof, the
following described property and real estate to-wit:

     A certain tract of land, situated in this Parish, known
and described as the Southwest quarter of Section Eighteen,
in Township Six of Range Eleven East, containing One Hundred
and Sixty Acres.  Said land being the vendor's property for
having acquired the same from the Succession sale of her late
husband, William E. Eckles, made by the Sheriff of this Parish
on the 21st April, 1859 and recorded in my Office on the 20th
day of the same month in Book X, No. 355, p. 779.  This present
Sale and Conveyance is made and accepted for and in consideration
of the price and Sum of Three Thousand Dollars, payable to the
minor children of said Widow William E. Eckles, to-wit:
Laura Ann, Sarah Eliza and Emily Pauline Eckles, as they
respectfully become of age or otherwise emancipated.  It being
well understood between the parties that the purchasers will
and hereby bind themselves to pay to the said Widow William E.
Eckles, natural Tutrix of said minors, the interest of said Sum
of Three Thousand Dollars at the rate of Seven per centum per
annum, from date till paid and on or during the month of March
of each year, the first payment of interest to be paid in March
next, 1861, and it is further well understood and agreed upon
between the parties, that in case said purchasers should fail
or neglect to pay the interest of said sum of Three Thousand
dollars yearly as above specified, that the whole Capital in
that case shall be due and exigible.

Now in order the better to secure the full and punctual payment
of said land, at the time above stipulated the purchasers grant
and the vendor reserves a special mortgage with vendor's
privilege on the said land until the full and final payment
thereof.

The parties dispensing the undersigned Recorder from the
production of a Certificate of mortgages as required and
contemplated by law, Civil Code of Louisiana, Art. 3328, and
hereby fully exonerate him from all liability for the non-
production thereof.

Thus done and passed, in my office, at the Parish first
aforesaid, this twenty first day of December, Eighteen Hundred
and Sixty, and in the presence of Messrs. Joseph F. Jarreau and
P. Collier, competent witnesses who have signed with the
parties and me, Recorder, after reading thereof.

Signed: J. Felix Jarreau
Signed: Aurore Eckles
             Peter Collier
S. B. Chemin
                                                                                              Wilfred Chemin
O. Bernard, Jr. Recorder
Conformable to the Original recorded this 21st
day of December, AD, 1860.