Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-07-14

"tthe commissioner or commissioners shall forth
with transmit TO the auditor of pub ic accounts.
who shall charge the collector with the amount
OF sales appearing thereon.
be 1t further enacted, That il shall be the du.
~ OF every collector TO pay annually into the pub.
nc treasury, all such sum or sums of money as
ne shall receive by vir,ue of this act deduQine
| commission of FIVE per centum thereon. which
payment shall annually be made on the same day
on which the taxes collected in the same year
shall be payable.
Heit further enacted, That the lists of sale SO
certified and taken by The commissioners. or ei.
ther OF them, shall be sufficient TO charge the
collector or his security securities, HIS her or
their heirs, executors or admpisralors there.
with' on any motion TO be made 10 recover the
same BY the auditor Ut pubiic accounts And IL.
any collector shall make default In the payment
OF any monies BY him received by virtue OF this
act at the time nereby required, such coliecto,
dhd MS security or securIies, ms, her or their
heir:, executors o. administrators, shall be iabc
10 ali such hnes, interest, damages and Costs and
DC recovered the same manner as in case of a
default III the payment of the commonwealth S
revenue.
be IL further enacted, Thatit shall be the dutv
OF every collector making sale by vriue of this
ACT, TO make anu execute ~ tDe purchaser deco
III tee simple Ior the ,nos purchased. eciunx he
cause Ut sale, and III every action or SUIT al law
OF IN equity, IN when former owner or owners
oil any tract oil taud SO sold and conveyed, h:s
nef or their heirs, devisee, or other l.erson OF
persons ciaimpg under kan, her or them. sinai,
contest the luity OF the sale SO MADE the onua
probandi snaIilie on the psrry con,esins.
BE II further enacted, mat tie commissioner
or commissioners tor discharging the dunes re-
CURED OF them by thu. act, snail DC entited TO nc.
ceiye from the pubiic treasury a commission oi
a lal a N M tar
on warrant from the auuiIor OF pubic accounts
Be 1t iarther enacted, lhat il shall be the uuiy
OF the audior OF pubic accounts, AT the pubic ex
pense; to cause a copy oil this act, ana OF an &C
passed the first day ut February, in Inc year Oh,
thonsand eight hundred and SIX entitled San
act sising tus,her time 10 the propretors of GER
ta,n lands forfeited tor the non pay msns of taxes
- .edsem NE same, and also an aa passed on
sne twentieth DAY vi January, in the year one
thousand eight hundred ana seven, entitied Gan
al to amend an act en,i;led " an act more eile,
suaily TO provide los tne payment of taxes upc,
lands WITHIN Tails commonw ealth," TO be publish
ed tor six months successvely in The presen,
year, and Tor shsee months successiveiy preced,u
lhe hrst hioRday IN August, In the year one mon
sand eight hundseo and eleven, to be pu,, ishee
| IN some newspaper of general circulation. eoite,
IN each OF the United S.aGes, If any such the.e n,
And be 1t tursher enacted, That the dulies en-
joined by this act TO De pc. formed oy she co.Iea
ois, shall, where he snsrnt - ColcStos be per
| formed BY The hugh sile.in in person, and ever,
Purchase made, wholly or IN pat, by the snerif OF
nis deputy, or oy any oher pe.son being colec
sor, or by any other person, wholly OF in par.
icr the use ot sdch sheuh. aesuty sherla or ONE
persoi beng collector, silan DC voia ana ever,
Sheriff, deputy sheriff or oiher person oeine CO,
'eetor, making any Puronase, Gamer wnolly or /,
part, Tor himself, or procuring any otner perso,
90 make such purchase, ~nony or IN par. icr th
use aforesaid shall to,ieiS aud pay the sum o
. 500, 70 the use Oi the pubic. be recoye. e,
oy bill, plant inioInia,Ion, in any court OF re
cord having jurisdiction the:eOt.
THIS aa shall be in foice f'om the passin
| iheIeof.
| a Copy from the RolI--Tesie,
| J. PLEAShNIS. il. Keeper
I of the Roll,