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Oak Bluffs police are investigating the apparent theft of a 70-year-old town land record book that was sold last month on eBay.

Lieut. Timothy Williamson yesterday confirmed that police are looking into the disappearance of a 1926 Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company Tax Ledger from the vault at town hall on School street.

Kyle Carson, an Oak Bluffs resident who does title searches, saw the ledger listed for sale last month on eBay, according to a letter Mr. Carson sent to the Oak Bluffs police.

In the letter, Mr. Carson said he bid on the ledger but did not pursue the item after he realized the ledger was town property. Mr. Carson said a buyer who is known only by an eBay name purchased the ledger on March 15.

Although the buyer and seller might assume the ledger is a public document, Mr. Carson wrote, the ledger is part of a series of land company ledgers that were used in the town between 1920 and 1926 to record information including property assessments and taxes.

Posted: 04|28|06 at 11:33 am. Filed under: US News.