Evening star., 1898-10-12
AUCTION SALES.
DUNCANsoN BEos., AUCTIoNEERs.
k'UTUitlr DAYS.

AS->>-h->'o-> bi-oso-, <tCSlloNI.E1to
JUDICIAL SALE OF ALL AND SINGULAR, THE
COlifUliA1E RIGHTS, PRIV IlEGES AND
FRANCHISES, RIGHTS OF WAY AND PROP
Ekll, REAL, lEksoNAL AND MIAED. OF
THE BELL HALLWAY COMPANY.
Matthias Ament,
trailing NJ Ament
Complainant. In Equity No. 1854.
The Belt Railway Com
pany, ct al,
Defendants.
Pursuant to the decree entered in the above en-
tilted cause by the Supreme Court OF the District
OF Coiumnia, nothing special term in Equity on
decree entered il the Court OF Appeals OF the Dis.
trict of Columbia on the twenty seventh Gay of
August, 1898, AND TO the decree entered therein III
the Supreme Court Of the District OF Columbia,
hoiGinY u special term in Equity on the twenty
American Security and Trust Company of wash
1EstoI:, DC, as trustee under the DEGREES a1ore-
HEli. 1888, AZ TWO " O'CLOCK P.M at the
Office OF the Belt Railway Company, Eleventh
snset ana rcfd4 avennt, III me Iity Of Wash
enliiety, ali ana singular The corporate rights,
privileges and franchises, rights of way and prop
erty, real, personal and mixed, of the Bet fall-
way Company, to wit:
The lines of said Belt Railway Company, con
sistlng OF about nfieen niles OF slhsle track,
which is composed OF about seven and seventeen
one hunGredths miles of double track, and one and
twent! Six hundrodths miles OF single track Is
fully described in the said decree VI December
"A. 1897, as follows:
Beginning First street west at
the point CT It's intersection with Mary ylhnd avenue
III front OF the CAPITOL III W iSnlilStJn CITY, DIS
trict Of Columbia, and running thehce month along
said First street and New Jersey avenue 10 u
Fourth street west; thence north along said Fourth
street and New Jersey avenue to L street north;
thence west along sal L street to flevchth street
west; thence south along said Elevehth street to
street north; thence west along said Il street 10
Fourteenth street to street south; thence east
wardiy Glong said south 10 Virginia
Ene thtnee m rIs @ au
avenue and thence stwaIdly along said May
i hnpinnirr: also along @ street north Between
Fourth and Eleventh streets west; also be
ginning at the intersection Of Eleventh and Boun-
daTy streets northwest, and running thence soulh
along said Eleventh street to its intersection with
the intersection of Eleventh and Il streets north
west and running thence east along said + street
Ninth stleet right of way over and The use Of
the tracks of the Metropolitan hallway Company
CompaEy's own tracks westwardly along said
Louisiana avenue to its intersection with the main
Twelfth street to street south where it inter
sects the main line at Twelfth street; also CEN,
Eleventh street southwest and running thence
south along said Eleventh street TO Water street,
street to Seventh street west and thence south
along said Seventh street To street south; also
Fourteenth street northwest and running thence
south along said Fourteenth street to b street
south, with tuInouts aid switches. tos5 ther with
all other extensions made rights or extension
granted prior to the aforesaid decree of December
Also the following described pieces and parcels
Of ground and premises situated in the city OF
Washington, District Of Columbia:
Original lots numbered four "a and five (5l, in
square numbered three e hundred and four lsn4,;
lot nun bered five t5,. in square numbered five
hundred and seventy-scven 90. containing about
three hundred and thirty l3aol. containing about
s9,359 square feet, together. with the impr"ye-
and other street railway structures and all ways,
easements, rights, privileges and appmtenances
halo,
Also all the horses, harness, ears, grain, tools,
implements and personal property of whatever kind
the possession Of the receiver thereof
Also the corporate at ri rights ITS, pEyefes a,, and fran
For more particular description of all the fore
going property reference Is hereby made to the
CONDITIONS AND TERMS OF SALE:
These prescribed in the said decree of De
cember oath, 1897 as follows:
Tine said sale shall be conducted follows
that is say IL offering and selling the property
and franchises 'overed by and embraced In said
trustee shall se,, the same as an entirety without
valuation. appraisement, extension or redemption.
who shall not first place in its hands or deposit
with 1t at the t.me u making the bid, as pledge
cepted by the trustee and ratited by the court the
Of five thousand dollars cash by certified
check. OF The price for which said property and
franchises shall be sold there shall be paid in
cash at the time Of the sale the cash deposit
part Of the purchase price and also within five
days thereafter such further portion of such pur-
chase price shall be paid In cash ten days prior
to the date of Gale the court may direct, in
order TO meet the Of this suit, and to pay
such the may adjudge to be due
and prior III equity to the said deeds of trust. The
court the right to set aside any sale made
10y tie trustee and resell said premises, property
and franchises upon failure of any purchaser for
twenty days to comply with any order of the court
price not required to be paid in cash either be
paid in cash the purchaser may satisfy and make
coed such balance of his bid, in whole In part by
paying and slrrender1nS the outstanding bonds
and overdue coupons secured by the deeds of trust
hereinbefore referred to- such bonds and coupons be
ing received at such price or value as Shall be
equivalent proportional to the amount that the
holders thereof would be entitled TO thereon in
the entire purchase price were paid in cash. All
bonds and coupoas that may be used TO make s.ich
payment shall be Surrendered TO the trustee and be.
Cancelled if the whole amount due thereon is applied
upon me purchase t.ce' nt II i@t than me Whole
be describet written upon the said bonds and
coupons, which shall then be returned to the holder.
payable in money bonds shall be pad in equal
ty, sixty ninety aud one hundred and twenty diys,
respectively from the date of tha ratification of the
''As the sale is made herein pro-
vided for in pursuance of this decree the trustee
tion. further certifying to the court compliance
by the purchaser or purchasers, with the condi
ss ns of sale a @ s inf Amy
persons making the same shall fail
comply with all the ,., Conditions OF sale and all
deposited by the bidder shall be forfeited and
shall be applied as The coult may direct
The amount that the purchaser will be required
to pay in cash within five days from the day of
sale is less than $,i2 600, and will not exceed
$4,000 which includes the amount found due and
payable by the dec:ees above named and the
amounts of the claims for wages, supplies etc,
proved June "a, 1898, entitled An act TO define
the rights of purchasers of the Belt Railway
Company and for other purposes.
Attention of bidders is called the aforesaid
of Congress approved June "a 1898. whereby
the purchaser at the sale under said decree shall
possess and enjoy all TIE corporate rights pr!yi-
leces and franchises heretofore conferred upon thu,
said Belt Railway Company, and whereby obliga-
tons imposed upon the purchaser with ref
erencc to the underground electric re-equipment of
said road
All conveyances. including revenue tax at the
purchasers cost.
AMERICAN SECURITY AND TRUST CO..
Trustee.
oc12-dts c. J. BELL, President