Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1837-07-13
s.~a VALUABLE
s.sss 'a'F1cs OF Land
FOR S.ALE.
VIRGINIA, TO WIT

VIRGINIA, TO WIT:
Rockingham County Circuit Superior
Court of Law and Chancery, May
Term, 1877
| BETWEEN
Samuel Todd and Jane his wife plain>
tilis, and Ann Davis, defendant
IN CHANCERY.
| TINS cause came on 10 be heard this
9th day of May, 1897. on the bill, an
swer, replication exhibits, dispositions
and report of Master Commissioner
Fletcher, TO which there is no excep-
tons, and which is hereby affirmed
and was argued by counsel whereupon
it is adjudged, ordered and decreed, that
John }. Craig, who is hereby appointed
| a Master Commissioner for that purpose,
do make sale of that moiety of the Pud-
ding Spring tract land, in the proceed
ings mentioned, which has been laid off
TO the plaintiffs and defenGant. after hav-
ing advertised the time and place Of sale
for four weeks, in some newspaper pub
lished most convenient 10 the premises,
which sale shall be at public auction, to
the highest bidder, on the following
terms, to wit Que, third of the pur-
chase money to be Paid in hand, and the
residue in three equal annual instalments
thereafter. the deferred payments to be
secured by the bonds of the purchaser,
with good security, and by retaining a
lien on the land therefor. And il is fur
thcr adjudged, ordered and decreed,
that the commissioner do divide the cash
payment, after defraying therefrom the
expenses of sale, into two equal moieties,
and pay over one OF said moicties to the
plaintiffs, and that out ofthe other moi
ETY. he do pay to the plaintiffs the sum
OF S97 %, that appearing from the re-
port aforesaid TO be the balance due from
the defendant TO the plaintiffs on the ac-
counts between the parties in relation to
said land =; and that he do pay the bal
ance of said last mentioned moiety Gf "a
NY to the defendant. And it is further
ordered and decrecd that in taking bonds
for the deferred instruments, the said
do divide those instalments
I'M two equal moieties. making the bonds
of one moiety payable TO, and delivering
the same TO the plaintiffs; and making
The bonds for the other moiety payable
10, and delivering the same TO the de-
rendants and the said commissioner is
directed to report his proceedings to the
Court. And it is further adjudged, or
dered and decreed, that each Of the par
ties do pay their own costs expended in
this suit, except the costs of the Master
report aforesaid, which are
to be equally divided between them.
And at the same day, TO wit: on the
13th of May, 1887, the Court made the
following decreein said suit. This cause
was again called up, aud at the sugges-
ton of the defendants counsel, and for
reasons appearing 10 the Court, the
Court doth so far change the decree rem
!ered in this cause on the 9th of this in
slant, SO that the one>third directed to be
paid on the day of sale, shall be postpo-
ned for the period Of 90 days, with the
exception Of the expenses Of the sale,
and Of S97 2S cents, and interest thereon
from the 10th day of November, 1896,
that being the balance reported to be due
10 the plaintiffs by the commissioner
Richard p. Fletcher but the purchaser
is required to execute bonds with ap-
proved security for the amount of the
said third OF the purchase money, after
dednciino the said $S97 % cents, with
the interest as aforesaid, and the expen-
scs Of sale as aforesaid.
A copy-Tcste,
il. J. GAMBILL, c. c. r. c.