National Republican., 1888-06-07
IUCTTON SALES.
A UCTloN SALE.
SALE oFTIIE ALEXANDRIA CANAL PROP
ERTY,

A uCTloN SALE.
SALE oFTnE 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 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
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
House Building, on st. Asaph street, In the
city of Alexandrin, Va, at u 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 q of Simms Carberry,,s
plat of a part Of the Mason Tract ,sso.called,
upon which the town of Rosslynn,. 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
1886 recorded in Liber g, folio 1876. Land Rec.
ords of Alexandria County, Virginia. for the
purposes Of free bridge;
Part OF the said tract has been Subdivided
into about 105 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
ises so to be sold as the first parcel include
also the canal, its bed, banks, basins culverts,
and other works and Improvements running
through said tract Of land to the .southerly
' SECOND PARCEL.
The bed of the Alexandria Canal, its banks
basins, locks, waste ways, culverts, ,aqueducts'
ht.tl lunG fRan al
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,
lying and being in the county of Alexandria,
Virginia, and situate. between the south boun-
Diary line of tho tract described above as par
eel number and the horth line of lot number
the property OF the Alexandria Canal Com;
pany. known as Caton's plat and abstract, filed
n said cause and marked, Exhibits j. r. G,
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.
bered on said Caton's plat and abstract as
numbers %, ~ 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 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 squares, and other real property belong
the a appsrtenanees @ thereto lying south and and
east Of lot number 90 described as parcel
number, 4, to the east side of the Basin" be;
hs Ss anS @sSs sad nqsegsa pa nSa ae ls s Il
| the town of Alexandria, the said lots to con-
stitute the fifth 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
SIXTH PARCEL,
All of the canal, locks, banks, squares, and
| parts OF squares lying easterly of parcel num-
Der to the Potomac River, said squares and
parts of squares being numbered on Cations
situate in the city Of Alexandria, Virginia. ali
| of said property to be sold as one parcel. b.
The sixth parcel b. sold sl subject to Lease ,;
upon portion the thereSf from the Alexa4dria
|
| Shelly, dated May 10, 1886 and recorded in
Liber II, page $50, Land Records Of Alexandria
| City. -.-..
TERMS OF SALE.
| Onethird in cash; as to the residue of the pur
| chase money upon u 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. Ten per cent. of the purchase money
20 be paid az the time Of the 81 sale the remainder ma
| firmation of the sale. The purchaser not 10
| 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; cOnyeyancing to be at the ex
| pense of the purchasers.
| JOHN s, FOWLER,
| Commissioner to Make Sale.
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