Eckles-Property Conveyance

Property Conveyance, Eckles, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.
File prepared and submitted by Cheramie Breaux

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.