New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-09

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ID SON. aucto" eer-Office No ) CarondeItt
street-1n SATURDAY, February T. 1874. at twelve
tie basement 10 undt of the ST. Charles Hotel ia
this city, BY virtue and IN pursuance Of an order
of the Hon. bon A. Pardce, judge of the Second
Judicial District Court, for the parish of Jefferson
dated December -, 1873. court docket No. 40,4 in
the matter of kdga" Drouet administrator of the
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Drouet ct al, heirs of j. r Drouet and wife, for
partition, at pubic auction wiz be sold the fol-
lowing described
vEKY VALUABLE SUGAR PLANTATION.
Lands, stocke ssrcuLu ral Implementse etc !.
to Wits
Description SS sugas Plantations
I. A SUGAR PLANTATION. situated sn ehe
left bank of the Bayou Ouatcha and Dupont OF
the Grand Isle OF BarataIi4 in the parish of Jet
ferson, having an area of l470 arpents, 800 toses
and % feet Said plantation being posed of
the following lots:
Eirst-A TRACT oF LAND. having front of a
league and half on the Grand Isle of Baratara;
said tract, commencing on the Bayou aux Oies, ex.
tending the BAYOU La Ponte, Dupont, with
the reservation of tract of land, commencing from
the point of the Bayou aux Oes, es tendlug to the
coulee, upon which was the house of Dominique
Perrin, and is the same property purchased by J.
B. and T. Drouet from FRANCOIS. Rigant, per act be-
fore L. F. Care late notary public on the twelfth
of October 1929; said tract or land being more &C.
curatey and further described on plan by Charles
de- Armss. deputy surveyor general, dated Septem
Der 80 1883, AS the lot of ground comprised within
the letters A, E, C. ID, +, +, and A. on said plat,
with the further reservation of tract of land
situated at II e upper extremity Of said tract A.
B. c, y, F, 9 al d a, measuring three arpents
front on Bayou Ouatcha, by six arpents in depth,
closing in the rear, and dcs grated said plan as
Claimed by the heirs of Pizani.
S.coHG-Of the following sections and parts of
sections sold with said planatisn to wit:
Fractional sections tuenty-three and twenty
six. west half OF the northwest quarter of
ton twenty five, west half of the southwe st
quarter Of section twenty five, and the fractional
west half OF section thirty all in township six
teen south, range tw Ltythree east west Of the
Mississippi river in the sOu tern land district
Louisiana, purchased f'om the government, Feb
ruay 49, l&4a, and with the above deseIieed tract
lhird-A tract of land, situated in the district or
Barataria, in the parish of Jefferson measuring
twenty arpents more less front on the Bayou
Baratarla Ouatcha, with all the depth that NAV
thereunjo brlong, which about two leagues
said properly is bounded above by lands formerly
belonging to Francois Tsopherne Boutte below
by lands formerly belonging to Victor Coulon and
Hl I he taT v pI or Glid tpan
tanning about 1863 srpents more or less acquired
from the Messrs. st. Pc by act passed before
natles BoudousGuie, notary public June 4, l345
The total area of sugar plantation i037 aIpents zoo
toises more or less.
There the plantation sufficient cane
to plant from l25 to $40 arpents also 81 of first
year stubbles and over lG0 acres OF second year
stubbles.
The fertility of these lands are known to be of
the best in the state, and have nearly always av-
eraged over hogshrad of sugar 10 the acre, and
the superior wood auds can not be surpassed IN
the 81 ate. The foregoing plantation and lands
will be sod in one tot aid the Improvements the
same consist Of good sugarhouse, with open ket-
ties ard steam pans, wilh splendid machinery,
very recently placed at an expen5e of over 5 H.
600, all III good working order, with extensive
barns. stables ana necessary outhouses, good
quarters FIR over 100 hanGs and two comuiodfous
Iesid-nees with all their dependencies.
With the above plantation viii be sold the fol
lowing described live stock, wood, agricultural i'm
pf merits and movable effects, to wit: For. J-heven
mules, six oxen, three bulls, twentythree mich
cows ttlrty-iiDe yeaIlings and calves, nine large
earts, h&T small carts, ore stable cart, eleven
double piows, eight single p'ows, five iaEge four
ule ploT=, SIX wheeibarrows. one foe, thirty
three leather collars, tfrty-tiIee pairs hames,
thlrty-tbree brides twenty pairs traces, nine sad
dies and breechings. fifty five knives thirty
FIVE hoes, a ghteen BAoves, eighteen spades elcv,
axes, fifteen grabbing hoes, 400 cords Of wood,
thirtv-two empty h0g8Ieais, one barrel Of sui
phur al more or less.
description Of tie lands-separate from the sugar
plantations
PORTION ONE.
2. Attract Of la- :, situated in the paIisa OF JeF
rso1' il tAls state, the island of BaratarIa,
having front OF twenty-five ar9ents, or
lees 81 he BlJCu B4TataTia or 0uatc!la. aid e1-
tending through the said island aad fronting Oh
III Bayou Peio. being designated by the mum be-
nine, Oh pan g. drawn by William J. McCollorh,
Surveyor Genersl of the United sta'es for LouIe
lana. deposited in the Office Of Edward Barnett,
late notary pubic. said tract Of Land has su per
fetal area of 1910 arpen5, more or less Purchased
from the succession Of John Neponogh Or the