Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-05-22
AUCTION SALES.
A UCTION SALE
A UoTloN 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
Oh the Sth day of May, 1888, in chancery cause
entitled The United States of America VS.. The
alexandria Canal Company and others, therein
then and now pending, the undersigned, a COM
missioner appointed by said decree to make 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, on st. Asaph st,eet, in tho
city of Alexandria, Va at 10 o'clock noon, on
! THURSDAY, THE 7IH DAY OF JUNE, 1855,
all and singular the right title and interest of
the Alexandra Canal Company in and to the real
e''ate py sala decree ordered to be sold, to witt
FIRST PARCEL.
Ihot certain parcel Of ground containing thirty
elsft or forty acres more or less, situated in AL
exandrla county, Virginia, portions of Sections
II, l, and of Simms Carberrys plat OF part of
the Mason Tract, so-called upon which the town
OF Ros5lyn, 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 IS,
1856, recorded in Liber G, folio 436, Lsrd Zee
ords of Alexandria county, Virginia, fu tie our.
poses of free bridge
Part Of the said tract has been subdiyidcd into
about 1O5 lots, of which lots about forty-two are
under leases running to Nav 16 1865 and this
sale is made subject to all the said leases be the
same moro or less Tho premises so TO 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
tho southerly boundary Of said tract all to be sold
rs one parcel.
SECOND PARCEL.
The bed of the Alexandria Canal, its banks,
oasns, locks, water ways, culyerts, aqueducts
bridges tracts, pieces, and parcels of land includ
ing the arches, masonry aud improvements at
-Four Mile Run owned and heretofore used and
occupied by the Alcxandria Canal Company as p
canal and for canal purposes, lying and being i'll
the county Of Alcxandria, Virginia, and situate
between the south boundary line Of tho tract do.
scribed above as parcel Number / and the north
line OF lot number 23, as numbered on the plat
ana abstract OF the property of tho Alexandria
Canal Company known as Caton's plat and alb
stract. filed III said cause and marked Exhibits J.
L: C., Nos. L and 2, all to be sold az one parcel
When any portion Of tho premises embraced in
this second parcel was conveyed to the Canal
Company upon express condition that the land
was Is revert in case Of abandonment or non-use
for canal purposes the same will be sold subject to
tho conditions in the said deed deeds contained
THIRD PARCEL
Tboso certain three parcels Of land numbered
on said Caton's plat and abstract rs Numbers %
~, &nd 21, with all the rights titlo, privileges
and appurtenances thereto appertaining, situate
in Alexandris county, Virginia, and containing
together about twelve acres, all to bo sold as one
parcel.
FOURTH PARCEL.
That certsin lot, with the appurtenances, mark
ed 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 GRO parcel.
FIFTH PARCEL.
All of the bed of the Alexandria Canal, the
banks Sasins, lots, squares and parts Of lots and
squares, and other real property belonging to the
Alexandria 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
10, 49, II, is, 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 as 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 unsod 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 Caton's said plat as 1,
2, 3, 4 5, g. 7, IL, 12 13, ID, and 15, situate in
tho city Of Alexandria, Virginia, all of said pro-
perty TO DC sold as one parcel
The sixth parcel IS sold subject to lease upon
portion thereof from the Alexandria Canal Rail-
road and Bridge Company, to c. NJ. Shelly. dated
May 10, 1856, and recorded in Libcr IL, page
$50, Land Records of Alexandria City.
TERMS OF SALE.
One third in cash; as to the residue of tho 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 the
court until full payment and compliance with all
of the terms of sale tho property to be subject to
be resod in of default. Ten per cent. of the
purchase money to be paid at the tmo 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, until the sale is confirmed and an or
der for possession is entered; conveyancing to be
at the expense of the purchasers.
JOHN s. FOWLER.
Commissioner to Make Sale.
DURE, REFRESHING AND HEALTHY.