National Republican., 1888-06-01
IECTION .SILES.
4 UCTloN SALE.
SALE oFTnE ALEXANDRIA CANAL PROP
ERTY,

ERTY.
BY virtue of and under the authority of u
decree rendered by the Circuit Court Of the
United States for the Eastern District of Vir-
ginia, dated on the sth day of May, 1883, in q
chancery cause entitled The United States of
America VS.. The Alexandria Canal Company
and others, therein then and now pending
the undersigned, a commissioner appointed by
sRd decree to make sale & Of the property IN
at public auction, in front, of the Custom
House Building, on st. Asaph street, in the
city of Alexandria, Va, az Il o'clock noon, on
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 or less, stu.
ate in Alexandria County, Virginia, portions
of Sections II, ], and . of Simms Carberry's g
plat of a part of the Mason Tract. so.called,
upon which the town of Rosslynn, Virginia, Is
situated, excepting from said tract about five
and onequarter acres, more or less, granted
by the Canal Company and Others to the
1886, recorded in, Liber G, folio 496, Land Rec
ords of Alexandria County, Virginia. for the
purposes of free bridge.
Part of the said tract has been subdivided
into about 1906 lots, of which lots about forty
two are under leases running to May 10, 1865,
and this sale Is made subject to all the said
leases, be the same more or less. The prem
ises so to be sold as the first parcel include
also the canal, It's bed, banks, basins, culverts,
and other works and improvements running
through said tract of land to the ,southerly
boundary of said tract, all to he sold as one
SECOND PARCEL.
The bed of the Alexandria Canal, its banks.
basins, locks, waste ways, culverts, aqueducts,
bridges, tracts, pieces, and parcels of land,
including the arches masonry, and improve
ments at -Four Mile Run owned and heretofore
used and occupied by the Alexandria Canal
Company as a canal and for canal purposes,
Virginia, and situate between the south boun'
Diary line of the tract described above as par.
eel number and the north line of lot number
as d, on the rG
pany known as Caton's plat and abstract, filed
In said cause and marked, Exhibits j. II. c.,
Nos. and . all to be sold as one parcel.
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 sam viii viii
deed or deeds contained.
THIRD PARCEL.
Those certain three parcels Of land num-
bered on said Caton's plat and abstract as
numbers 29 ~, and 81, with all the rights, title
privileges, and appurtenances thereto apper
tanning 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 appurtenances
marked on said Caton's plat as number 20
situate in Alexandria County, Virginia, lying
between 1st, I'd, Washington, and Columbu,
streets, the samato be sold as one parcel.
FIFTH PARCEL.
All of the bed of the Alexandria Canal, the
banks, basins, lots, squares, and parts of lots
and squares, and other real property belong
ing to the Alexandria Canal Company, witt
east OF lot number 20, described as parce
number, 4, to the east side of the Basin be
| ing the lots and squares numbered 10, lS, II
| the town of Alexandria, the said lots to con
stitute the fifth parcel, but to be, offered fol
sale separately as squares and parts o.
squares, with their appIlrtteenIances; but Il tn,
| be bid for and sold when offered separately
| then these squares and parts of squares re
| naming unsold will be offered as whole.
SIXTH PARCEL.
All of the canal, locks, banks, squares, and
| parts of squares lying easterly Of parcel mum
Der o to the Potomac River, said squares ant
| parts of squares being numbered on Cation
said plat as ], "a ., 5,g7 II, Y, 49, II, and y
situate in the city Of Alexandria, virginia, al
The sixth parcel is sold subject to a leas,
upon a portion thereof from the Alexandra
Canal, Railroad and Bridge Company, to @; NJ
Liber II, page $50, Land Records Of Alexandra
| City.
TERMS OF SALE.
One.third in cash; as to the residue of the pur
| chase money upon q credit of six and twelv,
months from the day of sale, in two equa
| nstallmcnts, with interest thereon at six pc
cent, evidenced by the negotiable notes o
| the purchasers, the title to be retained unde
| the control of the court until full payment ant
compliance with all of the terms of sale, th
| property to be subject to be resold In case o
| default. Ten per cent of the purchase none.
to be paid at the time Of the sale, the remainde
| of the cash payment to be paid on the con
| frmation Of the sale. The purchaser not {,
be let into possession until the full paymen
of the cash payment and the execution of tn
| notes for the deferred payments, nor until tn
| sale Is confirmed and an order for possession
Is entered; cOnveyancing to be at the eS
| pense Of the purchasers. --
| JOHN S. FOWLER,
Commissioner to Make Sale.
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