National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-11-24
JUDICIAL SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION OF
THE FIR BSt25NG Asp PBEENIsEa 9E TE

street, Star once Building.
JUDICIAL SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION OF
THE BUILDING AND PREMISES OF THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF WASHINGTON,
Upon an order passed on the I'D day of July 1874,
Sitting as ntf Court nj o. the uSed STATES n
and for said District in the matter Of real and per-
washington, b. G., viii sell at public auction, at
BEING tbe DsS On he
is,d IN mont Of the building in Mashington Dis
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niture and appendages thereof, subject to- CONFIRM
Terms OF sale are one third in cash. and the re-
mainder in one and two years, IN equal annual In
mum. For the unpaid instalIments q lien win be
reserved upon the property sold, and the purchaser
posit Of TWENTY-FIVE hundred dollars In cash will be
required At time Of sale. All eonveYancing at eK-
II terms Of sale are not compiled with within
sell property at risk and cost Of defAulting pur-
The property above referred to is described by
metes and bounds as follows; Consisting Of parts
CITY as lots numSered eight 81 and ten. do1 In
square numbered two hundred and tWenty-fOur,
ginning on Fifteenth Q5th) street at the northwest
corner OF said lot number eight (S) and running
twenty-three feet ana two inches Q23 n. 2 In.D
along the north line Of said lot numbered eight 90
ten uo) to the east line OF said lot, at point sew
eIhtyntTe ieet S H. from street thence south
thirty-eight feet eight and one half inches as r.
81 IN. } to the north line OF . ffteen-fOOt alley:
thence west along the line Of said alley twenty
three feet and two inches (23 n inl TO the east
line OF said lot numbered eight, 81 thence south
along the said east line Of said lot numbered eight
go two feet 70 point forty feet eight and half
said lot; thence west in . line parallel with the
north line OF said lot one hundred feet GOO ft.)
and one half inches 20 H. s. y nom the he noTth
west corner Of said lot numbered eight, "a and
thence north along the line Of said street said last
named distance 10 the point Of beginning.
hre-proOf building, the lower story OF which was
recently occupied as banking house by firm of
Jay Cooke Co., and the upper story by First
The building fronts forty feet eight inches on
Fifteenth street, opposite to the United States
Treasury Department; no locality in the city being
poses. 1t contains in the upper and lower stories
Well-constructed and cOmmOdlous vaults.
The personal property to be sold includes four
large and excellent safes, formerly used by First
HStionSi BANK and hrm OF Jay Cooke & Col be-
The real estate is among the most valuable in
Washington city. The building Is handsome and
ubsantlally constructed, and Its original cost in
1854, is estimated at eightyfOUr thousand dollars,
1854, co. exclusive Of the price of the land, which
has since enhanced In value.
tional Bank in 1855 for ninery-seyen thousand dol
lars, and taxes and assessments have been paid up
to June 30, 1875.
Receiver from August /, 1874, until February,
1875 at the rate Of hftv dollars week, to the Clti
Zens' National Bank Of Washington. On the
hrmation the sale by the eourt-ean take absolute
possession OF these lover rooms, as well as the
upper ones. EDWIN L. STANTON,
Receiver Of First National Bank OF Washington,
LATIMER & CLEARY, AuctIoneers.
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