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the quantity to 157,500. 1 he mortgage

debts of the company amount to$37‘-.008 1-.

Of this, $131,500 were due and must be

paid within ninety days or foreclosure would

ensue. The floating debt amounts to >JH,

foO, making a total indebtedness of $484,512.

Of tbe floating debt, $69*00 is due the Haiti

more and Ohio Railroad for freight on coal.

$16,000 to Capt. Loper, on steamship, $10,

1)00 to miners at Jackson mines, $10,600 to

banks at Hagerstown and Cumberland, guar

anteed by II. Mali and O. P. Jewett.

The assets consist of 300 bonds of $1,000

each, of the Parker Steamship Company,

05,1 H>0 shares Caledonia coal stocks, and the

coal property, consisting of 5,394 acres ot

valuable coal lands at Georgia Creek, Jack

son, Westernport, &c., and 2,000 acres ot

poor coal land not worth much it anthying.

The directors estimate tho value of all this

property at $843,500, which would give to

the company a surplus of about $3-0.000

but against this there is a claim of $500,000

for a loan to the company, of which the va

lidity or consideration is not ascertained. If

valid, says the Xevv York Times, the proper

ty at its greatest estimate is not worth a doit.

The directors moreover reported that they

had traced the over issues ot stock to certain

parties, vet had not been able to ascertain

whether any payments had been made tor

the same.

Much anxiety was expressed by the meet

ing that the transfer books should be opened

forthwith, doubtless that they might deliver

their stock, and the same parties seemed less

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Alexandria gazette. (1854). Alexandria, D.C., 1854-09-04. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025007/1854-09-04/ed-1/?sp=2

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Alexandria gazette, 1854-09-04.