Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-22
AUCTION SALES.
DICHMOND AID VILE RAIL
II, ROAD COMPANY.


IL ROAD COMPANY.
\ otice is hereby given that. i'll pursuance
of decree of tho Circuit Court of the United
States for the Eastern district of Virginia. L
tel ed on November 9th, 1894, in the suit Of
the Central Trust Company. Of New York,
and others VS.. the Richmond and Danvilie
Railroad Company and others. consolidated
cause in equity, and a supplemental decree
entered in the same cause on November 18th,
1894, We. the subscribers, Receivers of the
Richmond and Dauville Railroad Company
appointed in said cause, will, on
MONDAY, the 31st day of December,
1894,
ct 10 o'clock in the forenoon. sell on the
premises at public auct on whatever right,
title and interest the said Richmond and Dan
willie Railroad Company and TIE said Receivers
have, in law or equity. III or to the real estate
or interests therein hereafte mentioned SUBJ
ject however, to ali outstanding suhsisting
lawful claims, equities and liens thereon,
whatever they may be.
The description of the said real estate, the
right, title and interest of the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company and said Re-
ceivers, in law or equity, in or to which we
shall sell as aforesaid il as follows:
ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND lying near
the south end of the Long Bridge over the
Potomac river in Alexandria county, Virginia.
which was con eyed by Eppa Hunton, ir., 10
William H. Payne by deed dated August
Goth, 1890, and recorded i'll the Clerks
Office of Alexandria county aforesaid in Deed
Book NJ. No. 4, page %. ano<more particular
ly described as beginning Ut point the
east limit of turnpike $50 feet in south
westerly objection from face line of old abut-
ment or 663 feet from face liue of existing
abutment Of Long Bridge. thence south 26
degrees east 1866 feet to point % feet
south 50 degrees west Of large tree on bank
of Potomac river; thence with the meander-
ings of the Potomac river AMI Roachs nun
400 feet more or less to tie east limit of
turnpike at tide gate. south end If Waterloo
Trestle; thence with east limit Of turnpike
north 5S14 degrees east 304O feet TO the be-
ginning containing II acres, excepting, how
ever, from the whole tract above described
two pieces or parcels thereof conveyed by
William H. Payne and wife to the Washing
ton Southern Railway Company by deed
dated October 1, 1890 and recorded in said
Clerks office in Liber NJ, No. 4, page So, &c;
said parcels containing respectively . 80
acres and 1919 acres. leaving of said whole
tract 5522 acres
(2). ALL THAT MESSUAGE being part
of1the Jackson City tract lying in said Alex
sndria county, and adjoining the ahovc de-
scribed tract, and described as beginning AZ 4
point in the east line Of the turnpike $50 feet
Ia southwesterly direction from face line of
the old abutment or GEO feet from the face
line of the existing abutment; thence south 26
degrees east 300 feet to point; thence north
51b degrees east AGO feet to point; thence
north 52lh degrees west 100 feet to east line
Of the turnpike; thence with the turnpike in
southwesterly direction $50 feet to the be-
ginning, containing 1.57 acres, and all right
In the strip of land djacent tc and north Of
the north line of said land as set forth in the
plat annexed to the lease next herein referred
to, being the same property dcmised and
leased by r z. and A Dodge and wife to
Thomas n. Wentworth. jr, by indenture
dated March 10, 1886, and recorded in said
Clerks Office in Liber g. No. 4, page 1S3,
&C.; subject however, to the operation and
effect of a certain deed made by Edward Lau-
tsrbach snd wife and the Richmond and Dan
vile Railroad Company to the Washington
Southern Railway Company, dated Octo-
Der 1, 1890, and recorded in said Clerks
office in Liber NJ No 4, folio II, &c, convey
ing two strips or parcels thereof containing
respectively fifty-three hundredths and forty
six hundrodths acres, being total of ninety
nine hundredths acres.
Both of the above mentioned properties
Will be offered together as one parcel.
The terms of sale of the said properties will
be cash upon confirmation of the sale by the
court, taxes and other charges to be adjusted
b date of sale.
The bidder whose bid is accepted as the
highest for the properties sold will be required
to pay at once to the undersigned Receivers
ten per cent of the amount of any and all
sums bid for the property so struck oil to him.
II his hid should be rejected by the court, the
amount so deposited by the bidder will be re-
turned to him; and if his bid shall be &C.
copied by the court, and he shall fail to COM
ply with all the conditions of the sale and all
orders Of court with respect thereto, the sum
depoeited by the bidder shall be forfeited and
shall be applied as the court may direct.
For further particulars, and for more spe-
cidc information as to the interests of tho
Richmond and Danville Railroad Company
aud the said Receivers in the properties to be
sold, reference is hereby made to said decree
and the proceedings in said cause, filed i'll the
Clerks Office of said court at Richmond, Vir-
ginia.
Dated Richmond, Va, November S0th,
1894.
SAMUEL SPENCER,
FREDERIC w, HUIDEKOPER,
PETTREN EOSTEp