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the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and there are two stations of the London 

 and North-Western Railway on the property. 



I assisted in drawing out the conditions of the sale, the following of 

 which is a copy, and it may be useful to many foresters : 



CONDITIONS OF SALE. 



1. The highest approved bidder shall be the purchaser, and should any dispute 

 arise between two or more bidders, the lot in dispute shall be put up again and 

 resold. 



2. The gale is subject to a reserved bidding for each lot, which has been fixed by 

 the direction of the judge to whose court these causes are attached. No person 

 shall advance less at any bidding than the sum named by the auctioneer previous 

 to the sale, and no bidding shall be retracted. 



3. The purchasers shall pay down immediately after the sale into the hands of 



R T , Esq. of , Leeds, the receiver appointed in the above-named 



suits, or of some person authorised by him, a deposit of 20 per cent in part payment 

 of their purchase-money, and sign the agreement at the end hereof, and pay the 



remainder of their purchase-money to the said B T , less 2J per cent discount 



thereon, within fourteen days; or the said E T- may take from any purchaser 



a bill or bills for the unpaid purchase-money drawn by some party and accepted by 



the purchaser or some other security with approved sureties payable to the said R 



T on or before the 25th day of March 1868, or such other day as the said E 



T may fix ; but this condition is not to be considered as obligatory on the vendors. 



Tuesday the 7th day of January 1868, at twelve o'clock noon, at the chambers of 

 the said judge at No. 11 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, is fixed for the certificate as to the 

 result of such sale. 



4. The whole of the timber shall be felled by and at the expense of the purchaser, 



under the direction and in the manner to be prescribed by Mr F , or the agent 



of the vendors upon the estate for the time being, so far as practicable at the time of 

 the sale ; and the same shall be axe-fallen, stub-fallen, or sawn as he may direct, in 

 a workmanlike manner ; and the bark of each oak-tree shall be hatcheted round the 

 root before it is felled ; and the wood and timber purchased shall be taken by the 

 purchaser without any claim for compensation .whatever for any defects which may 

 then or thereafter be discovered. 



5. The purchaser shall at his own expense clear the ground of all the wood and 

 timber purchased by him before the 1st day of September 1868, under the penalty 

 of forfeiting the whole of the wood and timber then remaining on the ground to the 

 vendors, who may either sell the same and pay the proceeds thereof to the said re- 

 ceiver, or the same may be retained without proceeding to a sale for estate purposes ; 

 and this forfeiture shall not prevent the vendor from having any action for damages, 

 or the other remedies in that behalf. 



6. The purchaser shall clear the ground of and carry away all top branches and 

 bark, and all rubbish occasioned by the falling of the said timber and wood, on or 

 before the 1st day of September 1868. 



7. That the timber, bark, tops, and lops shall not in any way be unnecessarily or 

 improperly dispersed over the woods or fields ; and the purchasers shall use all pos- 

 sible caution to prevent damage to the lands, fences, hedges, and gates, and to the 

 standing timber, in the felling or removing of thenvood and timber, and the lop, 



