New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-24

N Chsncery-No. 5O71.
11EDRR AND By vIhTUE OF THE POWERS
~ and authority conferred by the Circuit Court
Aforesaid in decree rendered 10 the said cause ut
the April term OF the said court !. D. 1874, and
under the terms of the deeds OF trust established
in the said decree as made bv the New Orleans,
Cakes Ames and Edwin D Morgan, their success.
sors and assigns bearing date the fifteenth day OF
March, 1917. and the first day OF January, ls7s,
therein described and in the deed of trust
TO the Governor ct tlse state OF Louis
d. 1870, Will sell. under the superintendence and
direction of Francis A. Woslti-y. master, as pro.
vided in the said decree the entire property EN-.
braced in the said deeds of tEst at the city of New
Orleans on the EIGhrsENTH DAY OF NOvEM-
Der NEXT before the CustOmhouse. in the said
city. b"tveen the hours os IL 4. u. Aud r. II. OF
The property described consists Of the railroad
and railroads constructed or u he constructed in
that part OF the State OF Louisiana, west of the
Mississippi river, and in the State at Texas, or IN
either OF them constituting parts portions or sec.
tiOns OF the main branch lines of railroads Of
the New Orleans Mobile and Texas Railroad Com.
pAny, ss authorized by the laws OF the States OF
Louisiana Texas. including the right Of way
and all ether rights interests and estate Of'the
said corporation to the lands occupied by SAID
railroad Sailroads amt to all of the lands which
structing, repairing. operating or doing the bust,
ness OF the said railroads. Including all dspots sta.
ton houses. engine houses, car houses freight
hOuses, storo hOuses, sheds, machine shops,
repair shops, business houses. offices and buildings
owned Or occupied in connection with the said
railroad and railroads, with tho superstructures
tracks, rails and all the 0ppartenances thereof,
with the soiling stock cars engines. tenders. tos,
machinery, vessels, steamboats,. tug boats. boats,
with their engines. boilers. tackle, apparel ard
furniture, all fixtures fuel mate rails and all other
personal property usesl employed exclusively
for the repair construction operation and busl.
of the said railroads, together with all OF the
franchises rights and privileges Of the said cOrpO-
ration. whether corporate or otherwise, to Con.
str,,et maintain Oh manage the said railroad and
the branches thcTeOt, connected With relAt.
ing to the same, Or the construction maintenance
aud use thereof, or any part thereof, whether de-
baIna, louisiana, Texas or other States. from
couniles cities towns, corporations or individuals,
with the power to collect the tolls, rents and in
comes therefrOm, with all the tenements heredi.
taments, appurtenances. and all the right title
and estate Of the said CORPORATION and its assigns
rs fully as the same are granted III the doeds afore
said OF which l am authorized to sell Ander the
said deeds and the decree Of the court.
The said property will be sold in separate par.
cells, follows:
Tirst-The section of the railroad commencing
on the west bank OF the Mississippi river. near New
miles to DonaldsOnville, rear the Bayou LafOurche
and beyond that point toward vermonville, being
the portion completed, or nearly completed, will DO
cold with the rolling stock, engines, cars, depOts,
stations tracks, superstructures, rights, privi-
leses. franchises and whatever else belongs to or
is appurten3nt 10 the same under the general de-
scr,ptIOn above set forth.
Sscond-All that portion of the said main line,
which commences at point seventy miles distant
from WestwegO and extends westwardly TO Yer
mouville. in the parish Of LAFAYETTE, 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; apd tQthe
city Of Shreveport, in the parish Of Cad66 and to
Alexandria OF other place in the parish OF Rapides.
or elsewhere, north Of the main line, with all the
estates interests, rights franchises, privileged,
appurtenances and real and personal property
thereto belonging, held, owned, occupied or used
by the said company. and which are embraced un.
der the terms Of the deeds aforesaid. and the do.
! cree Of the said Circuit Court.
Third-An that line Of railroad running north.
| westwardly from Brashear City to the town Of
4 Ve1mOnville, which the said New Orleans, MO.
| bile and Texas Railroad Company acquired from
Charles Morgan, with all the rights of way, tracks
superb uctures, estates interests and property,
zeal and personal, appertaiuiCg to the same, and
the franchises privileges and immunties attached
to the line between the said termini Of BIasheal
! City and Vermillonville, and in said town and
! city.
Fourth-All the zine Of railroad. with the rights
estate, interests, franchises privileges and immu
! 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 thu
| general description, ~ before made, within thu
State OF Texas.
I The terms of sale cash The privilege OF bid
ding is reserved in the decree to the trustees IL
| the deeds before mentioned
| Absorption Of the property viii he placed witt
the master ten days before the sale.
FRANK 81. AMES Trustee.
! Approved:
| oe3 CIV y L. WOOLFLEy Master