Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-11-20
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
Joseph T. Brown, Surviving Trustee,
The Maryland Freestone Mining and
Manufacturing Company of Montgo-
merry County, Md. and others.
Lnthe Circuit Court for Montgomery county,
as a Court of Equity:

TIME object of this suit is TO procure decree
for the sale of certain lands and personal
property, belonging to 1.-The Maryland Free
stone Mining and Manufacturing Company of
Montgomery county, Maryland, and partcu-
larry mentioned and described ia Il mortgage
or Deed of Trust from said Company to Will
liam S. Huntington, Benjamin B. French and
Joseph I. Brown, bearing date the first day of
July, in the year eighteen hundred aad sixty
eight, and recorded among the Land Records
of Montgomery county, in Libe. +. B. P, No.
5, folios 400, &c, or so much thereof as may
he necessary 10 pay and satisfy all overdue and
unpaid coupons, for interest. attached to
series of bonds issued by said Company on
said first day Of July, in the year eighteen
hundred and sxty-eight, the payment Of which
is secured by said mortgage or Deed of Trust,
and deed contrmatory thereof, bearing date
the sixteenth day of October, in the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
The bill states that on the first day of July,
in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
the Maryland Freestone Mining and Manufac-
turing Company, OF Montgomery county, Mary
land, corporation incorporated under the
general incorporation law of the State of Mary
land, made and executed series of bonds,
bearing the aforesaid date being in sums of
FIVE hundred dollars each, and together amount
ing to the sum of one hundred thousand dol
lars, by each of which said bonds the said cor
poratiol acknowledged itself indebted to Will
liam S. Huntington, or bearer, in the sum of
five hundred dollars, which said sum the said
Company promised to pay 10 the bearer, at the
First National Bank, of Washington, D c.,
on The first day of January in the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-one, with interest thereon
at the rate of per cent. per annum, in United
States gold coin payable semi-annually at the
said bank, on the first day of January and
July of each year, on presentation and sur
render of the annexed coupons thereof, MS they
severaily matured, to each of which said bonds
there appended twenty-four coupons or
certificates, each for the sum OF fifteen dollars,
being for the semi -annual interest, maturing
on said bonds, on the first days of January
and July in each year, from the date to the
maturity OF said bonds and payable in United
States gold coin, at the First National Bank
of Washington, d c., and in order 10 secure
the paymeat Of the said bonds, when they ma
tured, and the payment of the said coupons at
the times and in the order they respectively
became due and payable The said Company, on
the said first day of July, in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight, did BY its deed of that
date convey TO q certain William S Hunting
ton, Benjamin b. French, and the complain
ant, Joseph 7. Brown, certain lands lying and
being in Montgomery county in the State OF
Maryland and particularly described in said
deed; also, all the personal estate, mills. ma
chinery tools, Implements, docks, boats. live
auarried and stock ofevery kind and descrip-
ton, belonging to said Company. and situate,
lying and being on, about, and upon said
lands, or in any manner used by said Com
pany in connection with its mining and man
ufncturing business, under its charter from the
State Of Maryland to which said deed there
is n condition annexed that it be void. pro-
yided the said Company should well and truly
pay, or cause TO be paid to the said grantees
named in said deeds or to the holders thereof,
whatsoever they may be the said bonds herein
before particularly referred to and described
and each and every Of them, and also the in
terest accruing and accrued thereon by tht
installments and in the manner and form Sc
forth aud specifically provided in the certif
Gates or coupons attached to and made part o.
said bonds, so that the entire sum of one hun
bred thousand dollars, with the interest thereon
in United States coin aforesaid should bt
fully paid and entirely satisfied, without any
deduction abatement whatsoever.
The bill further states that since the issu'
and delivery of said bonds and the execution o
said deed the said William S Huntington aDc
Benjamin b. French have departed This life
leaving YOUR orator the only surviving grantee
named in said deed.
The bill further states that since the making
OF said deed aud for the purpose OF quietlnt
any doubts as to the exact form in which th'
same was executed, the said Company did, or
the Ibtu udf o. OttODtT. III tHS JNai shiNSt
hundred aud seven y -four, executeand through
james Dawson its attorney i'll fact, duly ap
pointed for that purpose, acknowledge anC
deliver to the complainant, as surviving trus
tee and grantee canned in the deed aforesaid
deed confirmatorv Of the first mentioned
deed, with all its covenants, terms and condi
tio6s, which said conf rmatory deed was dull
recorded among the laud records OF said Mont
gomery county, on the goth day of October
1874
The bill further states that after the Issue o
the series of bonds before referred to, TO wit
ON the first day of January, A 1870 III
said Company issued second series Of bonds
bearing said date, being in sums OF hive hun
bred dollars each aud together amounting t.
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars
which said bonds were made payable on III
first day of January, in the year 1885, but II
all other respects as to amount, payees anf
place of payment, and rate time and place 0
payment of the interest thereon, were slmiin
10 the first series Of bonds issued by said Com
pany. to each Of which said bonds OF the secon'
series there were attached thirty certificates o
couDons. each for the sum OF fifteen dollars
and PAYABLE on the same days of the year, ant
at the same place. and in the same coin AS tn
certificates or coupons attached 10 the mrs
series of bonds, aud for the purpose of secur
ing the said second series OF bonds aud tn
coupons appended thereto, the said Company
0lO. on inc HfSt uhN OF JduudiN, n ~ iotO
by its deed of that date, convey to William
S. Huntington, Benjamin r French and tn
complainant, Joseph T. Brown, as trustees
the same lands and personal estate mentioned
ard described in the first deed, and the deet
confirmatory thereof, which said last men
toned deed contains the same covenants an'
stipuations, and is subject TO the same condi
tions that are contained in the first mentioned
deed, and like it, was ratified aud con6rme'
by subsequent deed of said Company, bear
ing date the 10Th day of October, A D. 1874
and duly recorded among the Land Record
of said county, on the ed day of October
1874.
The bill further states that after The issue o
the first and second series Of bonds before re
ferred TO- 10 witt On the Both day o. October
A D. 1872, The said Company executed am
delivered its two promissory notes OF that dat
for the aggregate sun of thirty thousand dol
lars, one for the sum of twenty-four THOUSAND
two hundred and fifty dollars. payable to th
order ola certain John L Kidwell at the FRS
National Bank Of Washington, D. g., on tn
first day Of November, A. d. 1877, with inter
est thereon at the rate of six per cent. per an
mum. PAYABLE semi-annually on the first day
of Nav and November in each year thereafter
until the maturity thereof and the other 70
the sum of FIVE thousand seven hundred AM
fifty dollars payable to the order OF a ceriaii
Henry D. Cooke at the same time anc place
and with like interest payable in like manner
and in order to secure the payment OF the sal'
two notes with the interest on the same. th
said Company did on the said goth day Q
A 1879 he certain deed q