Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-05-29
AUCTION SALES.
A UcTIoN SALE
Sale Of The Alexandria Canal PROPERTY.

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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, 1888, in chancery cause
cntltlct The United States of America ys. THE
Alexandria Canal Company and others. therein
tnen 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 tho Chs
.oh i house Building on st. hsaph street, in tho
CITY OF Alexandria, Va, at 12 O'clock noon on
THURSDAY, THE TN DAY OF JUNE. 1888
all and singular the right title and interest If
The Alexandria Canal Company in and to tho real
estate NJ said decree ordered TO be sold, to wit:
FIRST PARCEL.
That certain parcel Of ground containing thirty
eiSnt or forty acres, moro or less situated in Al
exandria county, Virginia portions of Sections
IL, l, and . of Simms Carberry's plat of part of
the Mason Tract, so-called, upon which the town
OF Rossyn Virginia, is situated, excepting from
said tract about five and one,quarter acres, moro
or less, granted by the Canal Company and others
20 THO United States by decd dated December 19.
1886, recorded in Liher g. folio 436, Land Icc.
ords OF Alexandria county, Virginia, foI tie pnr.
poRea of q free bridge
fart OF the said tract has been subdiyide6 into
about 100 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 less. The premises so TO be sold as
the first parcel include also the canal its he'd
banks, basins, crlverts, 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.
The bed of the Alexandria Canal its banks,
DaSlnS, LOCKS water pu1varto otc
bridges tracts, pieces, and parcels of land nclud
ing the arches, masonry and Improvements at
Four Mile Kun owned and heretofore used and
occupied by the Alexandria Canal Company as a
canal and for canal purposes, lying and being in
the county Of Alexandria Virginia, and situate
between the south boundary line of the tract de.
scribed above as parcel Number and the north
limo OF lot number 23, as numbered on the plat
anu abstract OF the property of tho Alexandria
Canal Company known as Caton's plat and alb
stract, tiled IN said cause and marked Exhibits j.
h; u, Nos and 2 all to be sold as one parcel.
When any portion of the premises embraced in
TINS second parcel was conveyed to tho Canal
Company upon express condition that tho land
was te revert in case of abandonment or non-usc
for canal purposes the will be sold subject to
the conditions in the said deed or deeds contained
THIRD PARCEL.
Those certain three parcels of land numbered
on said Cations plat and abstract rs Numbers %,
~, and II, with all the rights title privileges,
ana appurtenances thereto appertaining, situate
IN Alexandra county, Virginia, and containing
together about twelve acres all to be sold as one
parcel.
FOURTH PARCEL.
That certain lot, with the appurtenances mark
cd on said CatOn's plat as Number 20, situate in
Alexandria county, Virginia, lying between 1st
I'd, Washington and Columbus streets, the same to
be sold as enc 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 belonging to the
Alexandra Canal Company, with the appurtenan
ces thereto lying south and east of lot Number 90
described as parcel Number t. to the east side of
the Basin. being the lots and squares numbered
~, is, II, 16, 8, 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 rs squares and parts of squares,
with their appurtenances; but if the whole or any
part of said fifth 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, aud parts
Of squares lying easterly of parcel Number 5, to
the Potomac River said zquares and parts of
squares being numbered on Catons said plat as 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, II, p 13, ID and Is, situate in
the city of AleIandris, Virginia, all of said pro-
perty to be sold as one parcel
The sixth parcel is sold subject to lease upon
po ortion thereof from the Alexandria Canal, Rail-
road and Bridge Company, to c. NJ Shelly. dated
May 10, 1856, and recorded in Libcr IT. page
$50, Land Records of Alexandria City.
TERMS OF SALE
Ono third in cash; as to tho residue of the pur-
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 evil
denced by negotiable notes of the purchasers,
the title to be retained under the control of tho
court until full payment and compliance with all
Of the terms of SALE the property to be subject to
be resold in case of default. Ten per cent of the
purchase money to be paid at the time of the SALE
tho remainder of the cash payment to be paid on
tho 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.
mcnts, nor until the sale is confirmed and an or
der for possession is entered; conyeyancng to be
at the expense of the purchasers.
JOHN S. FOWLER.
Commissioner to Make Sale