National Republican., 1888-05-29
dUCTION SALES.
4 UCTIoN SALE. q,
SALE oFTHE ALEXANDRIA CANAL PROP.
ERTY,

SALE oFTHE ALEXANDRIA CANAL PROP.
ERTY.
BY virtue of and under the authority of a
decree rendered by the Circuit Court of the
United States for the Eastern District of Nir-
ginia, dated on the sth day of May, 1883, in a
chancery cause entitled The United States of
America VS.. The Alexandria Canal Company
and Others, therein then and now pending,
the undersigned, commissioner appointed by
said decree to make sale of the property In
the said decree described, will expose for sale
at public auction, In front of the Custom
city of Alexandria, Va, at Y o'clock noon, on
THURSDAY, THE 7TH DAY OF JUNE, 1885,
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
thlr,y.eight or forty acres, more or less, situ-
stein Alexandria County. Virginia, portions
Of Sections II, !, and of Simms Carberry IS
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 une-quarter acres more or less, granted
United States by deed dated December 1s,
1886, recorded in Liber q, folio 43G, Land Rec.
ords OF Alexandria County, Virginia. for the
Part Of the said tract has been subdivided
into about 1O5 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, its bed, banks, basins, culyerts,
and other works and improvements running
boundary of said tract, all to be sold as one
SECOND PARCEL.
The bed of the Alexandria Canal, its banks.
basins, locks, waste ways, ,culverts, aqueducts,
DrlureS tracts.
including the arches masonry, and improve.
ments at Four Mile Run owned and heretofore
used and occupied by the Alexandria Canal
Company as canal and fer canal purposes,
lying and being in the county of Alexandria,
Virginia, and situate between the south boun.
Diary line of the tract described above as par.
Gel number and the north line of lot number
the property of the Alexandria Canal Com.
pany known as Caton's plat and abstract, filed
IN said cause and marked. Exhibits j. r. c.,
Nos. and 2, 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 conditions in the said
deed or deeds contained.
THIRD PARCEL. ,.
Those certain three parcels of land mum.
L bered on os said 40 Cations plat and abstract as
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, Cd, Washington, and Columbus
streets, the same to 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,sqnares, and other real property belong
the appurtenances thereto, lying south and
east Of lot number 20, described as parcel q &c
number 4, to the east side OF tie BASIN, be
~ J. ss ;, i91f catos said plat and situate IN
the town of Alexandria, the said lots to con,
stitute the NTH parcel, but to be offered for
sale separately as squares and parts OF
squares, with their appurtenances; but II 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 re
naming unsold Will be offered as u whole.
SIXTH PARCEL.
All of the canal, locks, banks, squares, and
parts Of squares lying easterly. Of parcel mum.
Der to the Potomac River said squares and
parts Of squares being numbered on Caton's
si, SAID plat e. az ], sS 80, IL Il, - u, and 70
OF said property to be sold us one parcel.
The sixth parcel is sold subject TO n lease
upon a portion thereof from the Alexandria
Canal, Railroad and Bridge Company, TO O. M
Shelly, dated May 10, 1896, and recorded In
Liber II, page $50, Land Records of Alexandria
City.
TERMS OF SALE.
One-third in cash; as 10 the residue of the pur,
chase money upon a credit Of six and twelve
months from the day of sale, in two equal
installments, with, interest thereon at six per
cent, evidenced by the 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 resold In case of
default, Ter, per cent. Of the, purchase money
10 Ge paid a. the time OF the sale, ne remainder
iirmation 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 payments, nor until the
sale Is confirmed and an order for possession
Is entered; conveyancing to be at the eX-
pense Of the purchasers. ---
JOHN S. FOWLER,
Commissioner TO Make Sale.