The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-02-06
CHARLESTON. SUMTER and
NORTHERN RAILROAD CO.
MASTERS SALE
: OF RAILROAD.

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Notice is hereby given that in pursuance o1
Decree of the United States Circuit Court
for the District of South Carolina, ted
January i4th, 1895, and made in the cause;
entitled Alfred a Hewlett VS. The Charleston,
/ Sumter 4 Northern Railroad Company, and the
| Atlantic Trust Company vs. the Charleston
Sumter Northern Railroad Company, The
undersigned as Special Master, named in the
| Decree, will sell for cash at Public Auction,
to the highest tidder, at twelve O'Clock.
noon, ut the Depot of the Charleston, Sumter
l. Northern Railroad in the City Of Sumter,
! IN the State of South Carolina, on the fifteenth
day of FEBRU AIRY, d. 1895, the follow
ing described property Of the Charleston.
Sumter L Northern Railroad Company:
All and singular the lands. tenements and
hereditameuts OF the Charleston, Sumter 4
Northern Railroad Company. wherever
sitnateri. Including all its railroads, tracks,
right of way, main lines supeTstrnctures,
| depots depot grounds, station houses, engine
! houses, Ger houses, freight houses, wood
houses, sheds, watering places, work shops,
machine shops, bridges, via3ucts, culverts,
fences and fixtures, together with all l's
leases, leased or hired lands, leased or hired
railroads, and all its locomotives. tenders,
cars. carriages. trucks and other rolling stock.
its machinery, tools, weighing scales, turn
tables, rails, wood, coal, oil, fuel. equipment,
furniture and material ofevery name, nature
and description, together with all the cor
pornte rights privileges, lmmunimeu's and
franchises of the said railroad company, in
cluding the franchise 10 be a corporation.
and all the tolls fares, freights, rents, in-
come, issues nnd profits thereof, and al the
revetsion and reverslons, remainder and re-
main ders thereof.
The said property being more fully set out
and described ia and by certain mortgage
| or deed of trust executed by the Charleston,
Sumter 4 Northern Railroad Company 10 the
American Loan aud Trust Company of the
City of NV York, Trustee, dated April End,
1890, and also in the decree in this cause !;
and consisting among other tbirgs OF the fol-
lowing railroad lines, to-wit:
All and singular the lines of railroad
owned, constructed and operated by the
Charleston, Sumter l. Northern Railroad
Company over the following generally de-
scr;bed route, namely: A line of railroad
which extends from Pregnalls Station on the
line of the South Carolina Railroad, formerly
known as forty-one mile station, in the
County of Coleton, State Of South Carolina,
through Harleyvi!le in said last mentioned
county Pecks, Holly Hill, Connors and
Eutaw7ile iu the County of Berkeley in said
State; Bulls and Vauces in the County OF
Orangeburg in said State; Merriam, ST.
Paul, Summerton, Silver and Packsville in
the County of Clarendon in said State, and
TO the City of Sumter iu the County Of Sum-
ter, and thence through the Counties Of OAR
lington and Marlboro, to or near Benefits
vile in said County Of Marlboro, in said
State, distance in all of about one hundred
and .wenty-one aud lilo miles; also line
OF railroad which extends from Eutawville
in tie County of Berkeley in said State Of
South Carolisa, to Ferguson in the County
of Berkeley. IN said State of South Carolina,
distance of about six miles: also line OF
railroad which extends from Vances, in the
County of OrAngeourg, in the State Of South
Carolina, through Smells aad Parlers, in said
las, mentioned County, TO Harlin City (for-
merly Elloree) in said last mentioned County,
a distance Of about eleven aud two-tenthS
mirs; a.i elso the line of railroad
known as the Gibson extension or con-
linuation of the track aud other property
of the Charleston, Sumter / Northern Rail
road Company, such extension or contlnua-
ton. exceeding from the town ofBennetteviile
at the foymer terminus of the Charleston
Sumter 4 Northern Railroad, 10 q point IN
the State of South Carolina, near the line
dividing the State of South Carolina from
the State of North Carolina, the said point
being about four thousand feet from the
town OF Gibson, in the State of North Caro-
lina: said Gibson extension consisting o1
abou, ten S5-l0O miles, and having been con.
s,ructed by the Receiver OF the Charleston,
Sumter 4 Northern Railroad, with funds OF
the trust estate, by orders of the Circuit
Court, of the United States, passed 10 these
causes; the entire railroad lines being alto
pether a distance of about one hundred and
for,y-nine miles ofrailroad construction, and
in active operation, under ard by virtue OF
the charter, of the railroad company as now
amended.
The said Master shall receive al such sale
no bid OF less Than the sum of four hundred
thousand dollars, and shall receive no bid
from any person Offering 10 bid. who shall
not first deposit with him as pledge, that
such bidder will make good his Did in case
of its acceptance the sum of $4,000 IN
money or by certified check on some responsi-
BILE bank, or $50, 600, in Receiver certificates
of the Receiver, of the Charleston, Sumter &
Northern Railroad, or $780, in bonds o
the said Railroad Company. The deposit so
received from any unsuccessful bidder, shall
be returned TO him when the property shall
be struck down, and the deposit so received
from the successful bidder shall be applied on
account of the purchase price, if cash or Re
ceivers certificates then at par, and if bonds
then at proportouate value, as further pro-
vided in this paragraph. Such further pay
ments on the purchase price, shall be paid IN
cash, as the Court in this cause may from
time 10 time direct, and the Court reserves
the right to resell, in this case, the premises
and property herein directed to be sold, upon
the failure Of the purchasers thereof or ;heir
successors, or assigns TO comply within
twenty DAYS with any order of the Court IN
that regard, and any detaulting bidder and
any purchaser who shall default, shall be
liable to make good any and all expenses aud
any and All deficiency, or loss occasioned oy
the property bringing less price at any
1 such resale, and the amount so deposited oy
such bidder, shall be applied on account
thereof. Provided, however, that the pur-
chaser may turn in to the special Master, IN
lieu of cash, other receivers certificates OF
Charleston, Sumter & Northern Railroad at
par, or any &C oons bonds, or other claims