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VlRGlNlA, TO WIT:
Rockingham County Circuit Superior
Court Of Law ad Chsncery. May
Term. 1887
BETWEEN
Samuel Todd and Jane his wife plain
tifls, and Ann Davis, defendant
IN CHANCERY.
THIS cause came on TO 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 aecreed, that
John j. Craig, who is hereby appointed
Master Commissioner for that purpose,
do make sale Of that meiety of the Pud-
ding Spring tract efland, in the proceed
ings mentioned, which has been laid off
to the plaintiffs and defendant. after hav-
ing advertised the time and place of sale
Tor 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 pa, ments to be
secured by the bonds Of the purchaser,
with good security, aud by retaining a
lien on the land therefor. And il is fur
Their adjudged, ordered and decrced,
that the commissioner do divide the cash
payment, after defraying therrfrom the
expenses of sale, into two equal moie,ies,
and pay over one OF said mOicties to the
plaintiffs, aud that out ofthe other moi
ETY. he do pay to the plaintiffs the sum
OF S97 d. that appearing from the re-
port aforesaid to be the balance due from
the defe hdant to the plaintiffs on the az
counts between the parties in relation to
SAID land and that he do pay the bal.
ance Of said last mentioned moivty (if a
N.Y. to the defendant. And it is further
ordered and decreed that in taking bonds
for the deferred instalments, the said
commissioner do divide ACCOMPLISHMENTS
into 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
TO. and delivering the same 10 the de-
PENDANTS 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
commissioners report aforesaid which are
to be equally divided between them.
And at the same day, to wit: on the
18th Of May, 1897. the Court made the
following decree in said suit. Thi. cause
was again called up. and at the sugges-
ton of the defendants counsel, and for
reasons appearing to the Court, the
Court doth so far change the decree rem
dered in this cause on the 9th Of this in.
slant, So that the one>third directed 10 be
paid on the day of sale, shall be postpo-
ned for ihe period Of 90 days. with the
exception of the expenses of the sale,
and Of S97 % cents, and interest thereon
from the 10th day of November, 1886,
that being the balance reported to be due
to 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
deducting the said S97 % cents, with
the interest as aforesaid, and the expen-
ses of sale as aforesaid.
A copy-Teste,
III. ]. GAMBILL, C. Gre.