, 1875-09-02
NosTHEaNPAe|FleRALRoADCoMA Ny.
no1lf OF SALE OF LANDS.

The undersigned, Master Commissioners,
specially appointed as such in an action pend
ing in the Circuit Court Of the United States
for he Second Judicial Circuit and Southern
District Of New York, sitting in equity, wherein
jay Cooke and others are complainants and
g The Northern Pacific Railroad Company" is
defendent. hereby give notice that they will
sell at public auction, within the States and
Territories in which they may be situate, all
such of the lands and land grants conveyed in
the Mortgage or Deed Of Trust In the bill of
| complaint in said action men ntioned. as are Sit
uated on the completed portion, Of said Road
The times and places of such sales are as fol-
lows. that is to say:
At Tacoma, in Washington Territory, on the
18th day of September, 1875;
At Saint Paul, in the State of Minnesota, on
| the 18th day of October, 1875;
At Fargo, in Dakota Territory, on the 2lSt
day of October, 1876.
| (unless such sales may be adjourned by the
Master Commissioners. under the power Of ad-
journment given to them in said decree. These
sales will commence 1t ten O'Clock in the fore
noon, and continue until four O'Clock in the az
| ttrroon Of said days and be continued on each
| of the succeeding days until the whole of said
land and land grants shall be disposed Of. Sche-
dulles of all the lands and land grants to be
| sold may be found and inspected at the Offices
| of the Land Agents ofthe Company, in the re-
spective places mentioned above, at least two
rs DeIOre tne uate Wueu SuCu silAco hEc
hereby advertised to take place.
| No lands will be sold by us which may have
been disposed of by conversion of bonds
| into land; by any contract for sale tPere1f,
which shall have been approved and counter.
signed by the Receiver appointed in this cause
bt fore the date of the sale herein advertised:
or otherwise by sale under orders Of the Court
before the date of sales advertised hereby.
| The terms Of sale are as follows, that is to
say: -fl.4. .F -t
The purchaser or purchasers shall ray to the
undersigned as Master Commissioners, at the
time OF sale, the sum of five t5) per cent in cash
of the amount of the bid, such sum to be for
feited in case of noncompliance with the
| terms of sale; and within sixty days thereafter
or upon confirmation Of such sale or sale by
| the Court, the balance of the amount OF such
bid shall be paid in cash, provided, however.
that in the payment Of such balance, First
Mortgage bonds, which have been sanctioned
by the Court. may be taken as cash; each bond
in such cave to be taken only for such amount
as would equal the dividend to which it wolld
be finally entitled under the decree In the
above entitled action. a-H1E 81 ny
Said lands and grants will be sold under the
terms and conditions as above prescribed, in
single sections OF subdivisions thel eOf, to the
highest bidder, in accordance with Public Res
olution No. A, of the Forty first Congress OF
the United States, Second Session: and the
privilege may, at the time OF sale, be given to
any person who shall bid off SINGLE section or
subdivision thereof, of liking at the same
price any namber of additional or adjoining
sections or subdivisions, up to. and including.
forty nine, subject, however, to the right Of
Master Commissioners to withhold such privi-
lege, If they shall deem proper. .-.t
OLIVER FISKE,
KENNETHG WHITE,
Master Commissioners.
FREp'K A. LANE, q
Solicitor and of Counsel for Complainants.