Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-05-25
AUCTION SALES.
A UCTIoN SALE.
Sale Of The Alexandria Canal PROPERTY
4 UCrION SALE.

BY virtue Of and under the authority of de.
cree rendered by the Circuit Court of the United
States for the Eastern District of Virginia. dated
ON the Sth day of May, 1885, in chancery cause
entitled The United States of America vs.. The
Alexandra Canal Company and Others thercin
then and now pending, the undersigned, COM
missioner appointed by said decree to mako sale of
the property in the said decree described will ex-
pose for sale at public auction in front OF The Gus
tom House Building Oh st. Asaph street, III tho
city Of Alexandria, vs., at u O'Clock noon on
THURSDAY, THE 7 Il DAY OF JUNE, 1888,
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.
Thst certain parcel of ground containing thirty
eight or forty acres. more or less, situated in Al
exandria county, Virginia, portions of Sections
IL, /, and = of Simms Carberry's plat of part of
the Mason Tract, so-called upon which the town
OF Rosslyn, Virginia, is situated excepting from
said tract about five and one-quarter acres. more
or less, granted by the Canal Company and others
to the United States by deed dated December 8.
1886, recorded in Lber G, folio 436 Land Fec
ords of Alexandria county, Virginia, for tile pnr-
poses of a free bridge.
Part Of the said tract has been snbdividcd into
about % lots, of which lots about forty-two are
under leases running to May C. 965, and this
sale is made subject to all the said leases, be tho
same moro or less. The premises so 10 be sold as
the first parcel include also the canal, its bed
banks, basins, culverts, and other works and i'm
provements running through said tract of land to
the southery boundary of said tract all TO be sold
as one parcel.
SECOND PARCEL.
The bed of the Alexandria Canal, its banks,
basins, locks, water ways, culvcrs, aqueducts,
hrtde nnfc r,fan
ing the arches, masonry and improvements at
Four Mile Run owned and heretofore used and
occupied by the Alexandria Canal Company as 4
canal and for canal purposes, lying and being in
the county of Alexandris, Virginia, and situate
between the south boundary line of the tract de-
scrbed above as parcel Number and the north
line Of lot number %, as numbered on the plat
and abstract Of the property of the Alexandria
Canal Company known as Cations plat and alb
stract, filed IN said cause and marked Exhibits J.
f. c., Nos. 1 and 9, all to be sold as one parcel.
When any portion of the premises embraced in
this second parcel was conveyed to the Canal
Company upon express condition that the land
was to revert in case of abandonment or non-use
for canal purposes the same will be sold subject to
the conditionsin the said deed or deeds contained
THIRD PARCEL.
Those certain three parcels of land numbered
on said Caton's plat and abstract as Numbers %
D. and 21, with all tho rights, title, privileges
and appurtenances thereto appertaning, situate
| in Alexandris 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 Cations plat as Number 20, situate in
Alexandria county, Virginia, lying between 1st
3D. Washington and Columbus streets, the same te
| bo sold as cne parcel
FIFTH PARCEL
| Ali of the bed of the Alexandria Canal the
banks basins, lots, squares and parts of lots and
squares, and other real property belonging to tho
Alexandria Canal Company, with the appurtenan-
ces thereto lying south and east of lot Number 20
described as parcel Number 4, to the east side o
the "Basin. being the lots and squares numbered
10 1S, II, 16, s, 8, 10 in Catons said plat, and
situate in the town of Alexandria the said lots tC
constitute the fifth parcel but to be offered for
sale separately rs squares and parts of squares
with their appurtenances; but if the whole or any
part of said fth parcel shall not be 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 part;
Of squares lying eas!erly ofparcel Number 3, tc
the Potomac River, said squares and parts oil
squares being numbered On Caton's said plat IS 1
., Sd, 5, 6, T. H. H. 13, ID, and Is, situate in
the city of Alexandria, Virginia. all of said pro-
perty TO be sold rs one parcel.
The sixth parcel is sold subject to lease upon 8
portion thereof from the Alexandria Canal, Bail
road and Bridge Company, to c. N. Shelly. dated
May 19, 1856, and recorded in Liber IT, page
$50, Lsnd Records of Alexandria City.
TERMS OF SALE.
One third in cash; as to the residue of the pur
! oh nn0 credit of and twelve
months from the Gay of sale, in two equal install
ments, with interest thereon at six per cont, ev
denced By negotiable notes of the purchasers
the title to be retained under the control of tht
court until full payment and compliance with al
of the terms of sale the property to DC subject t'
be resold 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 OIL
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
ment5, nor until the sale is confirmed and an or
der for possession is entered; conveyancing to b.
at the expense of the purchasers.
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