Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1802-07-28
he Lead Mines
IN WTTHE COUNTY FOR s IKE.

VIRGINIA.:
An the Hll;h Court or Chancery, for the
Richmond distrScl, June sth, 1902,
BGTHEES !
Edmund Pc:2,ston and Peter Lyons,
St-yitiag administrators II me relate
efJoin Robinson, dec, Pi.8a.
AEb
"1aesg Byrd, aiaos9 and administrative Of
fse Si@Torajie IFiltam Byrd, Esq. de-
ceased, fartes Carter, q S4srley, Joha
bg'9s Stss,.keir and deUtsee ocfhc said
!y''Ham es'sT dsceGsrd, Robert Nelson,
-eF. end So sa,pq his zoJe, AID Polly
,os., stteerS and co7teirs q John :
-aissgeY no ,so's, deceased, Patrick
IIcnrv, fSetl Charles Lynch, Charles
(. Carter Of l@eForG, and Elizabeth his
.p:te, HJtahes Griffin and Si4sanla his
riff, gfHHtsn Neisoa and LHcy his
s9fs, chi <----- Le5gis, eldest so'taHd
Aeis Of. aElru Lewis, deceased, 7shich
sid EGza5efh, Susanna, Mary and Ln-
en-, 1cy-e daughters AND co-teira GF Joha
CHrvcH and Joia Garter Litietagc,
De'7s.
I'M the petition of Samuel Payne and
: y John Field, with the assent OF the
plaintiffs in this cause, and for reasons sp-
bearing 20 the court, the money for which
the Lead Mines mentioned IN the decree
Of this court pronounced on the eighth day
Of November, one thousand seven hun
dreI and ninety one, together with four
teen hundred acres Of land thereunto be-
longing, not having been paid by Moses
Eusdn and company, the purchasers, or a.
NY person for them, according to the times
limited FOR payment in, and by that decree.
and the condition Of the bond given to Sc
6Ere Tie payment thereof, by stephen Au-
stin ard Moses Austin, partners of the
sid company, and their sureties, Of whom
the petitioners are two, it is the opinion of
the court, and it is decreed and ordered
accordingly, that the sale made in pursu-
ance OF that decree be set side, and that
the premises aforesaid be again sold by
public auGtion, at the door OF the Eagle
Tavern in the city OF Richmond, to the
highest bidder, on, or before the seven
tecnt hd2y Of August next; that the said
Lead Mines and premises be sold on
credit Of nine months for one moiety Of
the purchase money, and eighteen months
Tor the other, that bond and good security
bearing Interest from the day Of sale, DC
entered into by the purchaser Or purchas
sers, and made payable TO John Wickham,
John w arden and William Hay, who are
appointed commissioners to condua the
said sale either ointly or by any two Of
them, and to take the said bond, in trust
Cor such person, or persons, as shall upon
the final decree be adjudged to DE entitled
% the sid purchase money, it being in
lended, that the same shall abide the deci-
sion OF the court, in like manner as the
said land and premises would have done,
hid no sale been directed by this, or the
aforesaid drcree, but his decree is made
lr3on the following conditions, 70 wit, that
the bond entered into by the former pur-
chasers and their sure,ics shall remain as
a security FOR any sums which may be found
deficient, betweea the purchase money to
b. raised Us the sale now diIeGted, and
what IS uoS due on the said bond for prin-
cipal and interest together with ali rents
accrued or accruiDg on the premises since
the said former sale, with all expenses to
be occasione6 by the ssle now directed {:
that in tse more ,han sufficient for these
purposes shall DC raised by that sale, the
same sbail b. applied to the credit of the
said fo'1uer purchasers that the sum OF
FIVE thousand pounds current money of
Virginia at the least, shall be hidden for
the said Lead Mines and premises upon
the terms aforesaid, or failure of which,
the commissioners Aforesaid, or any two
Of them are further direGted to make no
sale, ia the event Of = sale to make no con-
veyance, until the money is paid, or until
the further order Of this court, 20 make
known the conditions aforesaid, in an adj
yerti3ement 20 epublishcd foreign tweeks
successively in two of the gszattes printed
in the city of Richmond, describing the
property to be sold, and advertising the
t.me and place of sale, and TO make report
of their proceedings in pursuance of this
decree, to this court, in order to a final de-
cree.
a Copy,
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