New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-16

In Chancery-N0. 1913.
FINDER AND BY VIRTUE OF THE POWERS
- and authority conferred by the Circuit Court
aforesaid in decree rendered in the said at
the April term OF the said court A. d. 1884, and
under the terms of the deeds OF trust established
in the said decree, as made by the New Orleans
Cakes Ames and Edwin D Morgan their success.
sOrs and assigns, bearing date the fifteenth day of
March, 1870, and the hrst day OF January, 1872,
and to provide for the payment of the debts
70 the Governor Of the State of Louis
d. 1870, Twill sell. under the superintendent and
direction of Francis A. Woolaey. MASTER as pro.
vided in the said decree. the entire property EN-.
braced in the said deeds OF trast at the city New
orleans. on the ElGHTEENTH DAY Of NOvEM-
Der NEXT. before the Cust0mhOuse, in the said
city. bstween The hours OF II A. N. and P. N. of
that dav.
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, ard in the State OF Texas, in
either of them constituting parts portions OF sec.
lions OF the main branch lines of railroads of
che New Orleans, Mobile aud Texas Railroad Com
paDy, as authorized by the laws of the States of
Louisiana Or Texas, including the right of way
and al! other rights, interests and estate of the
said corporation to the lands occupied by said
railroad or railroads and to all of the lands which
have been acquired, Owned and occupied for con-
s,ructing repairing. operating doing the bust.
ness OF I'll. SAID railroads. including all depots sta
ton houses. engine houses, car houses freight
houses, store nOuses, sheds, machine shops,
pair shops business houses, Offices and buildings
owned or occupied in connection with the SAID
railroad and railroads, with the superstructures
t.acks, rails and all the appartenances thereof,
with the rolling stock. cars, engines. tenders. tools,
machinery vessels, steamboats,. ting boats, boats,
with their engi,.es. boilers, tackle apparel and
furniture, al fixtures fuel mate rails and all other
personai property Used OF employed exclusively
for the repair construction operation and bust
OF the said railroads. together with all OF the
franchises, rights aud privileges Of the said corpO
ration. whether corporate or otherwise, to con.
struct. maintain or manage the said railroad and
The branches thereof or connected With relat-
ing TO tho same, or the construction, maintenance
s the states of %
balna Louis ana, Texas other States, or from
counties, cities towns corporations or individuals,
with tine power to collect the tolls, rents and in.
comes theretrOm, with all the tenements hereii-
taments, appurfenances. ana all the right title
and estate OF the said cdr OoratiOn and its
as fully as the same are granted in tine Leeds ato1e-
said or which am authorized to sell under the
said deeds and the decree of the court.
The said property will be sold in separate par.
cells, as follows:
First-The section OF the railroad commencing
on the west bank of the Mississippi river near New
Orleans, at WestwegO. for the distance OF seventy
miles to DonaldsOnville near the Bayou Lafourche,
and beyond that point toward vermilionville being
the portion completed, or nearly completed will be
sold, with the rolling stock, engines cars, depOts
stations, tracks, snperstructures, rights, privi-
leges franchises, and whatever else belongs to or
is aDpurtenant 10 the same under the general de-
scriptlOn above set FORTH
Sreond-All that portion Of the said main line
which commences at point seventy miles distant
from WestwegO. and extends westwardly to Yer
m;lionville in the parish of Lafay cite ard thence
TO Sabine river, in the direction Of Houston, in
Texas together the lines of railroad authorized to
DE made therefrOm to West Baton Rouge and to the
city of Shreveport in The parish of CaddO, and to
Alexandria or other place, in the parish OF Rapdes
elsewhere north of the main line, with all the
estates, interests, rights, franchises, privileges
appurteDances. and real and personal property
thereto belonging, held owned. occupied or used
by the said company, and which embraced un-
der the terms Of the deeds aforesaid, and the de-
cree of the said Circuit Court.
Third-An that line Of railroad running north.
westw ardy from Brashear City to the tswn of
VeImllliOnvile, which the said New Orleans, Mo.
bile and Texas Railroad Company acquired from
Charles Morgan, with all the rights of way, tracks,
superb uctuIes, estates interests and property,
zeal and personal appertaiuins to the same, and
the franchises, privileges and immunties attached
to the line between the said termini Of BIashear
City and Vermillionviie, and in said town and
City.
Fourth-All the line of railroad with the rights,
estate. interests franchises. privileges and immu-
ntles, 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, - before made, within the
state OF Texas
The terms of sale are Ca h The privilege of bid.
in. is reserved in rhe decree, TO the trustees in
Il. deeds bef,Yc mentioned
Absorption o: the property win be placed with
The master tea days before the sale.
FRANK d. AMES Trustee.
Approved;