National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-22

JUDICIAL SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION OF
The BUILDING AND PREMISES OF THE
RlKSF NATIONAL BANK OF WASHINGTON,
Upon order passed on the I'D day of July, 1874,
sitting as District Court OF the United States in
snG.i SaH IN the matter Of real and per-
Washington, D. c., will sell at public auction, at
WEDNESDAY, being the ninth day, Of December,
1874, in front Of the building, in Washington, Dis
National BauE Of WasRnEo D. &C. "a and the T
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 a lien Will be
Will be reotnred 70 Eesp tie same insIred a de-
post Of TWENTY-FIVE hundred dollars In cash will be
required At time Of sale. ALI cOnveyancing at ex-
If terms Of sale, are not compiled with within
sell property at risk and cost Of defLulting pur-
The property above referred to is described by
metes and bounds as follows: Consisting Of parts
city O' as lots nnmbeTed eight C and ten. GOJ in
square numbered two hundred and twenty-fOnr,
ginning Fifteenth u5th) street at the northwest
corner of said lot number eight (5) and running
twenty-three feet ana two inches O28 II. 2 in
along the north line Of said lot numbered eight C(
ten Q0) to the east line Of said lot, at point sew
si"2g the east line Of said LOT 3umSeTed ten G6S
thrty-etght feet eight and one half inches (35 n.
% M TO the north line OF q nIleen-IOOt alley:
thence along the north line Of said alley twenty
threeN feet and two inches (2 II. in to the east
line Of said lot numbered eight, Is, thence south
along TIL said east line of said lot numbered eight
( two feet, 10 point forty feet eight and one half
inches 40 n. 81 In. south from the north line of
said lot; thence west in = line parallel with the
north line Of said lot hundred feet CC0 ft.) to
Fifteenth Q5th) street at point forty feet eight
west corner Of ssid lot numbered eight, 81 and
thence north along the line Of said street said last
named distance to the point OF beginning.
1t is improved by handsome, marble-fronted,
hre-DrOOf building, the lower story of which
recently occupied as a banking house by firm of
Jay Cooke q Co.. and the upper story by First
National Bank of Washington, ID. G..
The building fronts forty feet eight inches on
Treasury Depart ment; no locality in the city being
more advantageous for banking or business pur-
poses. 1t contains In the upper and lower stories
Well-constructed and commOdiOus vaults.
The personal property to be sold includes four
large and excellent safes, formerly used by Fist
National Bank and firm Of Jay Cooke CO.,) be-
sides tables. desks, &c.
Washington city. The building Is handsome and
substantially constructed and Its original cost, In
1854 is estimated at eighty-fOuT thousand dollars,
lsioo,) exclusive Of the price Of the land, which
has since enh1nced in value.
The property was purchased by The First Ma
tonal Bank in 1855 for ninety-seyen thousand dol
lars, and taxes and assessments have been paid up
TO June 30, 1875. .
The lower banking-rooms were leased by the
Receiver from August /. 1874, until February z,
1875 the rate of fifty dollars week. to the Cttt-
zens' National Bank of Washington. On the ex-
hrmaton Of the sale by the courtroom take absolute
possession of these lower rooms, rs well as the
upper ones. EDWIN L. STANTONr
Receiver Of First National Bank or Warrington,
LATINiER CLEARY, AuctloueerJ.
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