Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-02-11
NOTICE OF
CONDEMNATION

CONDEMN ALTON
/ hereby give notice, pursuant
to the order Of the Honorable
| w. Calvin Chestnut, United States
District Judge, entered in this
proceeding on the End day of
February, 1913, to the following
defendants named in the petition
for condemnation, as amended,
filed herein, to wit: Horace King
Whalen; Edith Cuttings Whalen !;
B. Peyton Whalen; Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission;
William L. Lightbown; American
Security and Trust Company of
Washington, d. c.; County Com
missioners for Montgomery Coun-
ty; and the State Of Maryland ;
to all nonresident and unknown
defendants, and to any and all of
the unknown owners, tenants,
occupants, claimants, and other
persons interested in the land and
improvements proposed to be con-
demned in this proceeding, and
any and all of the unknown heirs,
spouses, alienees, devisees, claim
ants, executors, administrators,
assigns, or persons claiming in
the said land and improvements.
That the petition for condemna-
ton of the United States of
America was filed in the above
entitled cause in the United States
District Court for the District of
Maryland on the 18th day of No
vember, 1912, by Wilmer H. Driver,
Special Assistant to the Attor-
ney General, and that said con-
demnation proceeding is now
pending.
/ further give notice to all such
parties as may be interested in
the land and improvements sought
to be condemned therein, or any
part thereof, to come forward on
or before the 9Th day of March,
1913, and file their objections,
if any they have, to the proposed
condemnation of said land in fee
simple, and to set forth their
several ownerships, claims, inter-
ests, titles, estates, rights, or
liens, if any, and that they will
be adjudicated and forever deter
mined by these proceedings, and
that the final award for said
lands, when paid into the Regis
try of this Court, will be disposed
Of as the Court may direct in
these proceedings.
The said petition for condem-
nation recites that pursuant to
certain Acts Of Congress, the Ad-
ministrator of the Federal Works
Agency is authorized to acquire
on behalf of the United States
the land hereinafter-described for
a public purpose, to wit: for use
as hospital facilities in connec-
ton with defense public works,
and other public uses. That
money appropriated for the pur-
poses and under the terms of
such Acts of Congress has been
allocated to the Federal Works
Agency for the acquisition of said
land; that under and by virtue
bof the provisions Of the Act of
Congress approved August l.,
1898, 25 Stat. 357 u. s. G. Title
40, Sec. 257); the Act of Feb
ruary 26, 1881, 46 Stat. 1421
(U. s. C. Title 40, Secs. 258 (a)
to 258(e) J; the Act Of October
IA, 1910 (Public No. $40, 18th
Congress), as amended by the
Act of June %, 1941 (Public No.
1877, 77th Congress), funds hav-
ing been appropriated by the Act
of July 3, 1871 public No. $50,
77th Congress); and all other
Acts or parts Of Acts supple
mentary to or amendatory of the
said Acts, the Federal Works
Agency has been designated az
the acquiring authority for this
purpose on behalf of the United
States, and that pursuant to law
has ascertained that the herein
after-described land is necessary
for the public purpose, as afore-
said; that title to the said land
should be acquired by condemna-
ton under judicial process, and it
has accordingly applied to the
Attorney General of the United
States to cause such proceedings
to be commenced. That the land
ascertained and selected for
acquisition for the purpose afore-
said is situate in the County Of
Montgomery, State of Maryland,
more specifically described as fol-
lows:
Beginning at stone monu-
ment at the northeast corner Of
the certain land conveyed by
deed from Grace L. Fisher TO
Horace King Whalen and Edith
Cuttings Whalen dated December
81, 1885. and duly recorded
among the Land Records for
Montgomery County, Maryland,
in Liber No. 614, folio 217 .et
seq. the said stone monument
also being at the intersection of
the West line Of the Old George
town Road with the South LIND
Of Lincoln Street in the sub
division of Huntington Ter
race" running thence with the
West line of Old Georgetown
Road South 6 degrees 38 min
utes 30 seconds East 253.O1 feet
to a stone monument in the
West line of Old Georgetown
Road; thence continuing with the
West line of Old Georgetown
DouI Co,.4L O Jo..-o~. En IL.