The evening times., 1897-01-13
AUCTION SALES.
By DUNCANSON BROS.
AUCTIONEERS.

office of the Commissioners of the District
OF Columbia, Washington, ID. e, January
PpBLIc SALE OF THE PRoPERTY AMP
AND POTOMAC RIVER RAnRoAApp
ca CC99iMIPAnMY., IN THE DISTRICT os
Pursuant TO an act OF Congress approved
June L 1878. toprovioe permanent form
OF government for the District of Columbia;
the Undersigned, on the 21ST DAY OF
JANUARY, A. ID. 1897, at IL o clock H.,
at their office, No AGA Louisiana avenue,
in Washington city, will offer Tor SAFE, at
pubic auction, to the highest Didder. uhe
rights and franchises, road-bed. and iran
ciIises, and the real estate OF the Anacostia
and Potomac River Railroad Company, or
so much thereof as may be necessary 20 pay
certlficate oflndebtedness No. 19, Tor S9;3I,
dated December 16, 1898, and issued 70
ii; l.. Crawford, for paving space OF rect
adjacent 10 tracks on Eighth and G streets
southeast, Second and streets, ana Cad;sl
ana streets southwest, certificate NO. a,
Tor S335.59, dated November A, 1884, ana
issued to the Washington Asphalt BLOCK ana
llle Company, for work done adJacenC 70 tle le
tracks or said railroad company, on soutI
SIDE OF Canal street, between ana =
streets southwest, and certificate No: ~,
for So ,931 "a, dated December 3, 1899,
and issued TO the Washington Asphalt BLOCK
and Tile Company, for work in connection
with the paving OF E street southeast, from
South Capitol to Third street, adjacent 70
the tracks of said company, with interest,"
at o per &C ntum per annum from the dates
OF Tile Issuance or the SAID certilicdteS
against the said company, and the cost OF
The undersigned will first offer for sale
all the rights and franchises or sald com.
pany prescribed and given by the act or
congress entitled AN act TO alliend 1ne
act giving the approval and sanction or
congress to the route ana tefIhni Vi elc
AnacoStia and p Otomac River RalIoad IN
The District OF Columbia, approved april
30, lSS2. which gives the company 6u-
thOrty to run its cars over the IOllOW-
ing route, VIZ; From the intersection OF lts
tracks at Ninth street with b surece hoIInt.
west, north on Ninth street 10 " streeC
northwest over the tracks OF the Metropol.
llan Railway Company; thence west on "
street northwest to Eleventh street north
west over the tracks OF the Ecklngtob
and Soldiers Home Railway Company,
thence south on Eleventh street 10 II
street northwest, and east on II street 10
Ninth street on the tracks or the Capitoi,
North o street and South Washington Kali
way Company. thence south on Nlntn
street to street on the tracks OF lne
Metropolitan Railway Company. The rights
over the tracks of each of the SAID rall-
road companies are TO be offered Tor saie
separately. And il the bid therefor be
not sufficient to pay said certiilcatesi theyy
VIII then offer for sale the right or SAID
company to run its cars over the tracks
OF the metropolitan Railway Company from
the intersection OF Ninth and b streets
northwest TO the intersection of Missouri
avenue and FOur-and-a-half street SOUTH
west; and il che bid therefor be not SUI
nclent TO pay said certificates, then they
VIII offer for sale the rOadbed and insold
franchises of said company, and II the
bids for all of the above items be insult
ficent to pay said certificates, then they
VIII offer for sale the real estate or said
company, being lots numbered from
761 to 77S, both Inclusive, IN Duv1ll ddqi-
ton to Uniontown, in the District OF Co
lumbia.
Terms OF sale-Cash on acceptance OF bid.
Conveyancing 20 be at the cost Or the pur-
chaser. JOHN w. ROSS,
GEORGE TRUESDELL,
CHAS. F. POWELL,
Commissioners or the District Of Column
Dia.