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Butler & Vale, Attorneys. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-Frank G. Wright & Company, Incorporated, a corporation existing under the laws of the state of Illinois, F. W Cushing, Jacob Schnur, and Bertha Baker Alling. Plaintins, NA. Franklin K. Lane, Sech retary of the Department or the Interior of the United States of America; William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Department of the Treasury of the United States of America: John Burke, Treasurer of the United States of America; W. E. Stavert, F. G. Jemmett, W. J. Boland, G. T. Clarkson, O. G. Laberee, International Assets, Limited, Sovereign Bank of Canada, Canadian Bank of Commerce, and the American Security and Trust Company, Defendants.-Equity No. 33530.-The object of this suit is to enforce payment to plaintiffs by the Government of the United States of America through its proper executive offices, of the plaintiits' vested undivided part of the whole tund of One Million One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($1,150,000) accruing from the purchase by the United States Government of the stocks and bonds of the Alaska Northern Railway Company; to ear join defendants Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior of the United States of America: William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America, and John Burke, Treasurer of the United States of America, from paying over to deL fendants W. E. Stavert, F. G. Jemmett, W. J. Boland, International Assets, Limited, G. T. Clarkson, the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and any person or persons parties to the contract of purchase and sale of said stocks, bonds and securities. the said purchase price thereof or any part of said purchase price. sand to enjoin defendant the American Security and Trust Company from surrendering possession of any of such stocks, bonds and securities in its possession at the time of the commencement of this suit; for & receiver to take possession of the said stocks, bonds and securities and deliver the same to defendant Franklin K. Lane and receive therefor the purchase price as in said cons tract of sale provided. and hold the said purchase price jubject to the order of this Court in this suit, and for an accounting by defendants W. E. Stavert, F. G. Jemmett, and W. J. Boland to these plaintiffs, disclosing transactions affecting plaintiffs' deposit with said defendants W. E. Stavert, F. G. Jemmett, and W. J. Boland of twenty-five (25) bonds of the Alaska Central Railway Company. On motion of the plaintiffs it is this 12th day of July, 1915, ORDERED that each of the defendants W. E. Stavert, F. G. Jemmett. W. J. Boland, International Assets. Limited, G T. Clarkson, O, G. Laberee, Sovs ereign Bank of Canada, and the Canadian Bank of Commerce cause his and their ap+ pearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day. exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order: otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default, provided a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter and The Washington Times before said date. WENDELL P. STAFFORD. Justice. A true copy. Test: (Seal) J. R. YOUNG, Clerk. By F. E. CUNNINGHAM. Assistant Clerk.
