R.I. Gen. Laws § 44-9-23 — Certificate of redemption money paid to treasurer

The treasurer shall receive any money paid to him or her instead of the purchaser
or assignee of a tax title, and, if the period of one year has not passed from the
date of sale, give to the person paying it a certificate specifying the amount paid,
the name of the person to whom and the real estate on which the tax was originally
assessed, and the registry of deeds and the book and page of the records where the
collector’s deed and the instrument of assignment, if any, is recorded; and the recording
of the certificate in the registry shall extinguish all right and title acquired under
the collector’s deed (Form 4).