The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-03-17
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE
GEORGIA-Ben Hill County


Whereas, Thomas B. Fletcher, ON
the the first day December 1911, made
aRd delivered to Albert R. Shattuck,
for the purpose eff securing a loan OF
Eight Hundred and Sixty $4,000
Dollars, deed to the land hereinafter
described, same having been executed
according othe provisions of sections
1906, ct equitur, of the Code of Geor-
gia of 1910, and duly recorded in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court, of Ben Hill County, in Deed
Book 8, page 538 to which reference
is hereby made; and
Whereas, it was provided in said
deed that if the said Thomas B.
Fletcher should make default in the
paymeRt of any of the principal or in
terest notes given for said loan, all
executed contemporaneously with said
deed, then said Albert R. Shattuck or
any holder of said notes, might pro-
coed to sell said lands, at public out
cry before the courthouse door in the
said County of Ben Hill, State of
Ieorgia, to the highest bidder for cash,
after advertising the time, place and
terms of sale in the newspaper in
which the sheriff's advertisements for
SAID county are published, once a week
tor four weeks, said deeds and notes
also st1pulating, among other things.
to pay ten per cent of the amount of
SAID debt for attorneys fees; and
Whereas, the said Albert R. Shat
tick did on Nov. 10Th, 1912, sell and
transfer to the British & American
Mortgage ompany, Limited the said
loan deed and property secured there
IN together with all notes secured in
SAID deed, which conveyance and as
signment is recorded in Deed Book 9,
page 3O8, in the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Ben Hill Coun-
ty, Georgia, and
Whereas, default has been made in
the payment of the principal note of
S8o.OO due November LIST, 1914, and
the principal note of $500 and the in
terest note of $4816 due Nov. 1st
1915.
Whereas, by reason of said default
SAID British & American Mortgage
Co. Limited has declared due and
Tayablc to entire debt secured by SAID
deed, the amount where of on the first
day OF November 1915, was $688.OO
and balance on one interest note of
$50.lO, with eight per cent per annum
interest on both said principal and
said interest notes from the first day
OF November 1915 to date of payment.
all and every part of which now re
main unpaid, although demand has
been made therefor.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby Civ
en- that said British & American Mort
gage Company Limited, under and bv
virtue OF the power of sale contained
in said deed, will on the first Tuesday
in April, 1916 before the courthouse
door in the town of Fitzgerald, Ben
t1lil County, Georgia, sell at public out
cry, to the highest bidder for cash
within the legal hours of sale, the land
described in said deed, as follows to-
wit:
All that tract or parcel of land living
and being in the Fourth % District Of
Ben Hill County, Georgia, and On the
east side OF land lot number Two Hun
dred and Ninety 900 and bounded as
follows: Commencing at a point ON
the north original line of said lot Five
Hundred and twenty-five (525) yards
from the northwest corner ofsaid lot
and running thence south to where it
interests with House Creek and
thence along House Creek to the
original east line, and thence north
along the original east line to the
northeast corner of said lot and thence
west along the north line to the origi-
nal starting point containing Two
Hundred and Eighty Five (285l acres,
more or less.
SAID sale being to satisfy said bedt,
and full title to be conveyed to the pur
CHASER OF said lands at said sale, ac-
cording to the terms of said deed.
This the 9Th day of March, 1916.
BRITISH & AMERICAN MORT
GAGE CO., LTD.
CLAYTON IAV A4+o-..