, 1875-08-19
HERxPAcIFIcRAIlRoADCoM NY,
NOTE OF SALE OF LANDS.

The undersigned, Master Commissioners.
| specially appointed as such in all action pend
| ing in the Circuit Court of the United States
| for the Second Judicial Circuit and Southern
District of New York. sitting in equity, wherein
| Jaw Cooke and others are cOmplainants and
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 entioned 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 81 September, 1875;
| At Saint Paul, in the State of Minnesota, on
the 18th day of October, 1875;
At Fargo, in Dakota Territory, on the 21st
| day of October, 1875.
| (unless such sales may be adjourned by the
| Master Commissioners. under the power OF adj
| 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 af-
| ternoon 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 of the Company, in the re-
| spective places mentioned above, at least two
weeks before the date when such sales are
| 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 there #,
| which shall have been approved and counter
| signed by the Receiver appointed in this cause
before 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:
The purchaser or purchasers shall pay 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 non-co compliance 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 would
be finally entitled under the decree III the
| above entitled action.
| Said lands and grants will be sold under the
| terms and conditions above prescribed, in
| single sections OF subdivisions the eof. to the
| highest bidder, in accordance with Public Res
| olution No. A, of the FUrty- 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 taking at the same
price any number of additional or adjoining
| sections or subdivisions, up to. and including,
| forty-nine, subject, however, to the right of
| Master Commissioners to withhold such priyi-
| lege, If they shall deem proper.
OLIVER FISkE,
KENNETH G WHITE,
Master Commissioners.
Solicitor and of Counsel for Complainants.