The evening times., 1897-01-15
AUCTION SALES.
BY DUNCANSON BROS.
AUCTIONEERS.

offlce Of the Commissioners of the District
OF Columbia, Washington, D. G., January
PUBLIC SALE OF THE PROPERTY 7 AND
AND POTOMAC RIVER RAILROAD
COMPANY, IN THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA
Pursuant TO an act or Congress approx ed
June Ii 1878, to proyioe a permanent form
or government for the District of Columbia .
the undersi gned, on the 21ST DAY Of
JANUARY, A. d. 1897, at ] 2 O'Clock M,
at tlleIr office, No 464 Louisiana avenue,
IN ashington city, viii offer Tor SAFE, at
public auction, to tile highest bidder, the
rights and franchises, road-bed and iran
chises, a nd the real estate OF the Anacostia
and Potomac River Railroad Company, or
soinuch thereof as may be necessary 20 pay
certlficate or Indebtedness No. is, Tor 1871, &,
dated December 16, 1898, and issued 70
II. l.. era nford, for paving space of feet
adjacent to tracks ON Eighth and u streets
southeast, Second and c streets, and canal
and streets southwest; certificate NO. "a.
for S335.59, dated November 4. 1894. and
issued to the Washl ngton Asphalt BLOCK and
Iue Company for work done adjacent 10 Tine
li1so tracKs OF said railroad company, on souIn
side or Canal street, between and Z
streets southwest, and certificate NO: 81,
Tor S3 1881 "a, dated December 8, 1880,
ana issued 10 the Washington Asphalt BLOCK
anu Tile Company, for work in connection
With the paving or street southeast, rom
South Capitol To Third street, adjacent TO
tHe tracks or said company, Win interest,"
or the Issuance of the said certificates
against the said company, and the cost OF
thls advertiseine
The undersigned will first offer FOR sale
all The rights and franchises OF said COM
pany prescribed ana given by the act or
Congress entitled IAN act to amend the
act giving the approval and sanction OF
Congress to the route and ternini or the
Anacostla and T otomac River Railroad IN
TIE District OF Columbia approved AprlI
30, 1892. which gives the company au-
ing route VIZ. From the intersection or It's
tracks at Ninth street with street north
west, north on Ninth street 10 street
northwest over the tracks OF the MefropOl-
ltan Railway Company; thence west on G
street northwest to Eleventh street north
west over the tracks OF the Ecklnslob
and Soldiers Home Railway Company,
thence south on Eleventh street 10 II
street northwest, and east on h street 10
Ninth street ON the tracks OF the capitol,
North o street aud South Washington kall-
way Company, thence south on Nlnth
street to B street Oh the tracks OF tne
metropolitan Railway Company. The rights
over the tracks OF each of the sal1 rall-
road companies are To be offered for sale
separately. And if the bid therefor be
not sufficient to pay said certificates: they
Will then offer for sale the right or SAID
company to run its cars over the tracks
OF the metropolitan Railway Company from
the intersection ~ Ninth end B streets
northw esS 10 the Intersection OF missouri
avenue and Four-nnd-a-half street south
West, and IL the bid therefor be not SUI
fctent to pay said certificates. then they
VIII offer FOR sale the roadbed aud lnsold
franchises of said company, and II the
bids for all of the above items be insuf-
ficient 90 pay said certificates, then they
viii offer for sale the real estate or said
company, being lots numbered from
761 20 IT'S, both Inclusive, in Duv Ill : dd1l-
ton to Uniontown, in the District Of Co
lumbia.
Terms or sale-Cash on acceptance of bid.
CGnveyanCing TO be at the cost Df the pur-
chaser. JOHN w ROSS,
GEORGE TRUESDELL.
CHAS. f. POWELL,
Commissioners OF the District II Column
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