New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-04
In Chancery-Ns. 1919.

IN Nu0nVCkJ eVS
FINDER AND BY VIRTUE OF THE POWERS
u and authority conferred BY the Circuit Court
aforesaid in decree rendered in the said cause at
the April term of the said court, 4. y. 1874, aud
under the terms of the deeds OF trust established
in the said decree, as made by the New Orleans
Mobile and Texas Railroad Company in favor of
Cakes Ames and Edwin D. Morgan, their success
sors and assigns, bearing date the fifteenth day of
and to provide for the payment Of the debts
therein described and in the deed of trust
to the a9 t Of time State Of Louis
b. 1870 Twill cell, under the superintendent and
direction Of Francis A. WOOltey, master, as pro.
vided in the said decree, the entire property EN-
Orleans, on the EIGHrEENTH DAY Of kOvEM
Der NEXT before the CustOmhOuse, in the said
city, between the hours OF IL A. H. and 2P. H. Of
The property described consists of the railroad
and railroads constructed or to be constructed in
that part of the State Of Louisiana, west of the
Mississippi river, and in tho State of Texas or in
either OF them, constituting parts, portions
tions of the main branch lines of railroads of
the New orleans Mobile and Texas Railroad Com
pany as authorized by the laws Of the States Of
Louisiana Texas. including the right OF way
said corporation to the lands occupied by said
railroad railroads, and to all of the lands which
have been acquired, owned and occupie d for con
structing, repairing operating or doing the bust
ness of the SAID railroads. including all depots
ton houses. engine houses, car houses, freight
houses, store houses, Sheds machine Shops
repair shops business houses Offices and buildings
owned or occupied in connection with the said
railroad and railroads with the superstructures
with the rolling stock, cars engines tenders tools,
machinery, vessels, steamboats, tug boats boats.
with their engines. bolers, tackle, apparel and
furniture all fixtures, fuel materials, and all other
personal property used or employed exclusively
ior the repair, construction, operation and bust
ness of the said railroads. together with all Of the
franchises ri ghts and privileges Of the said corpo.
ration, whether corporate or otherwise, to con.
struct, maintain OF manage the said railroad, and
ing to the same, Or the construction, maintenance
and use thereof, or any part thereof whether de-
rived IRON tho United states the States Of Ala
bama Louis ana Texas OF other States, or from
counties cities towns corporations or indiv duas,
with tine power to collect the tolls rents and
comes therefrOm, with all the tenements, heredi.
taments, appurtenances, and all the right title
and estate Of the said pOratOn, and its assigns,
fully the same are granted in the deeds afoIe
said which l am authorized to sell under the
said deeds and the decree of the court.
The said property will be sold in separate par
GELS as follows:
Frst-The section of the railroad commencing
the west bank of the Mississippi river. New
Orleans, at Westwego, for the distance Of seventy
miles to DOnadsOnvile, near the Bayou LafOurche,
and beyond that point toward VermiliOnve, being
the portion completed nearly completed, will be-
sold with the rolling stock, engines. cars depot
stations. tracks, superstrucrures, rights priv.
leges franchises, and whatever else belongs to or
is appurtenant to the same under the general de.
scrlptIOn above set forth.
| Second-All that portion Of the said NAN line
which commences at point seventy miles distant
| from WestwegO. and extends weStvArdly to Yer.
milionve, in the parish of Lafay cite, and thence
to Sabine river, in the direction of Houston in
Texas. together the lines of railroad authorized to
be made therefrOm to West Baton Rouge and to the
city of Shreveport, in the parish of CaddO, and to
Alexandria other place, in the parish OF Rapdes
elsewhere, north of the main line with all the
estates, interests, rights, franchises, privileges
| appurtenances. and real and personal property
thereto belonging, held owned, occupied or used
by the said company, and which are embraced I'M
der the terms of the deeds aforesaid, and the de.
cree of the said Circuit Court.
Third-All that line Of railroad running north
westw ardly from Brashear City to the town OF
VeImiOnville, which the said New Orleans, Mo
bile and Texas Railroad Company acquired from
Charles Morgan, with all the rights Of way, tracks
supertTuctures, estates interests and property
zeal and personal, appertaiuing to the same, and
the franchises privileges and immunities attached
to the line between the said termini OF BIasheal
City and Vernillionville, and in said town and
city.
Fourth-Al the line of railroad, with the rights
state interests, franchises, privileges and linnd
mites, between the Sabine river and the city OF
Houston in The State of Texas, and the entire
estate of the said corporation, embraced IN the
general description. as before made, within The
State of Texas.
The terms of sale are cash. The privilege of bid
ding is reserved in the decree, to the trustees II
the deeds before mentioned.
description of the property will be placed Will
the master ten days before the sale.
FRANK NJ. AMES, Trustee.
Approved:
Oc3 6w F. A. WOOLFLEY, Master.