Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-06-06
ALEXANDRIA VA. WEDNESDAY EVENING JUNE s 1888
AUCTION SALES.
A UCTION SALE
A UcTIoN SALE.
Sale Of The Alexandria Canal Property.

Sale Of The Alexandria Canal Property
BY virtue of and under tho authority of de-
cree rendered by the Circuit Court of the United
states tor the Eastern District Of Virgins, dated
on the Sth day of May, 1888, in chancery cause
entitled The United States of America vs. The
hle1andria Canal Company and others. therein
then and now pending, the undersigned, COM
missioner appointed by said decree to make sale oi
the property in the said decree described will ex.
pose for sale at public auction, front of the Gus
tom House Building, st. Asaph street. in the
city Of Alexandria, Va, at ID o'clock noon, OH
THURSDAY, THE I'm DAY OF JUNE, 1883,
all and singular the right, title and interest of
the Alexandria Canal Company in and to the real
estate by said decree ordered to be sold, to wit:
FIRST PARCEL.
That certain parcel of ground containing thirty
eight or forty acres. more less situated in AL
exandria county, Virginia, portions of Sections
IL, l. and Q OF Slmms Carberry's plat of 8 part of
the Mason Tract, so-called, upon which the town
Of 9osslyn, Virginia. is situated, excepting from
said tract about five and one-quarter acres, moro
or less, granted by the Canal Company and others
to the United States by deed dated December ] g.
1856, recorded in Liber G, folio 436 Land Iec-
ords of Alexandria county, Virginia, foi tie pur-
po"es of free bridge.
about 1O5 lots of which lots about forty-two are
under leases running to May 16, 1865, and this
sale IS made subject to all the said leases be the
same more or lees. Tho promises so to be sold as
the first parcel include also the canal its bed
| banks, basins, culverts and other works and inn
provements running through said tract of land to
the southerly boundary of said tract, all to be sold
| as one parcel.
SECOND PARCEL.
nNt.
basins locks water ways, culverts, aqueducts
bridges, tracts, pieces, and parcels of land includ
ing tho arches, masonry and Improvements at
Four Mile Run owned and heretofore used and
occupied by the Alexandria Canal Company as
canal and for canal purposes, lying and being in
the county of Alexandria, Virginia, and situate
between the south boundary line of the tract do
scribed above as parcel Number and the north
line of lot number 23, as numbered on the plat
and abstract of the property of the Alexandria
Canal ComDany known as Caton's plat and alb
stract filed in saiG1 cause and marked Exhibits j.
R. G., Nos and =, ali to be sold az one parcel.
When any portion of the prc@lses embraced IN
this second parcel WAS conveyed t3,the Canal
Company upon express condition that tie land
was to revert in case of abandonment or non-uS5
for canal purposes the same will be sold subject to
the conditions in the said deed deeds contained
THIRD PARCEL
Those certain three parcels of land numbered
| on said Caton's plat and abstract as Numbers %,
%, and 2l, with all the rights title privileges,
and appurtananccs thereto appertaining, situate
| in Alexandria county, Virginia. and containing
together about twelve acres, all to be sold as one
parcel.
FOURTH PARCEL.
That certain lot, with the appurtenanccs mark
ed on said Caton's plat as Number 20, situate in
Alexandria county, Virginia, lying between 1st,
(No1,, Al
be sold as one parcel.
FIFTH PARCEL.
All of the bed of the Alexandria Canal, the
banks, 5asinG lots, squares and parts of lots and
squares, and other real property belonging to the
Alexandria Canal Company, with the appurtenan-
thereto lying south and east of lot Number 90
described as parcel Number H. to the east side of
the Basin being the lots and squares numbered
10, 1S, II, 16, 8, ., 10 in Catons said plat and
situate in the town of Alexandria, the said lots to
constitute the fifth parcel, but to be offered for
sale separately as squares and parts of squares,
with their appurtenances; but if the whole or any
part of said fifth parcel shall not bo bid for and
sold when offered separately, then these squares
and parts Of squares remaining unsold shall be Of
fered as whole.
SIXTH PARCEL
All of the canal, locks banks, squares, and parts
OF squares lying easterly of parcel Number 5, to
| the Potomac River, said squares and parts OF
squares being numbered on Catons said plat as /,
2, 8, 4, 5, g. 7, H. 12 13, ID, and 15, situate in
tho city Of Ale1andria, Virginia all of said pro-
| perty TO be sold as one parcel.
| The sixth parcel is sold subject to lease upon a
portion thereof from the Alexandria Canal, Rail-
| road and Bridge Company, to c. NJ Shelly. dated
May 10, 1856, and recorded in Liber IL, page
| $50, Land Records Of Alexandria City.
| TERMS OF SALE.
One third in cash; as to the residue of the pur-
1 chase money upon credit Of six and twelve
months from the day Of sale, in two equal install
ments, with interest thereon at six per cent evi-
denced by negotiable notes Of the purchasers,
the title to be retained under the control of the
court until full payment and compliance with all
of the terms of sale the property to be subject to
be resod in case of default. Ten per cent. of the
purchase money to be paid at the time of the sale,
| the remainder of the cash payment to be paid on
| the confirmation of the sale. The purchaser
not to be let into possession until the full
payment of the cash payment and the
| execution of the notes for the deferred pay
ments, nor until the sale is confirmed and an Or
der for possession is entered; conyeyancing to be
| at the expense Of the purchasers.
| JOHN 8. FOWLER.
Commissioner to Make Sale.
1lHE UNDERSIGNED, as administrator of
| Il Thos. n. Mccormick. deceased trustee in a
| deed of trust from VIM. Eaches, dated 20tI day
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