The Delaware gazette. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1809-1810, 1809-07-26

be sold, but an entry Of such payment shall be
made bv the collector on the list Aforesaid, and
a recipe for such payment given to the person
making the same in the name OF the former ow-
ner or owners, and thereupon such land shall b.
taken to be redeemed, and the forfeiture accrued
thereon, shall be, and the same Is hereby full
ly waved and RENTED.
BE it further enacted, That 1t shall be the du-
Of the commissioner or commissioners OF the
revenue, annually, on the first Monday in Au.
gust to attend at the courthouse OF their re.
spcctive counties, and to take and make out
list of the sales to be sold Ivy the collector, spe-
cfying the name or names OF the former ow.
ner or owners, the sums p'id and to whom sold;
which list the commissioner or commissioners
snail forthwith transmit to the Auditor Of puh-
lie accounts, who shall charge the collector with
the amount OF sales appearing thereon.
Be it further enacted That it shall be the dn.
~ of every collector to pay annually into tie
public Treasury, all such sum or sums of NO.
ney as he shall receive hy virtue of this act, d.
ductirg a commission of five per ccntum thereon.
which paymcn, shall annually be made ON tie
same ,lay on which the taxes collected in the
same year shall be payable.
Be it further enacted That the lists Of sale 50
,her of them, Shall be Sufficient 10 charge the
collector or his security securities, his, he. or
their heirs executors or administrators herewith on
any motion to be made 10 recover the sa:9c 1;
the auditor o. public accounts. And If any
collector shall rilkc default in the pavement ti
any monies BY him received, by virtue of tbs
at, 81 the time hereby required, such collector,
abd his security or securities, his, her or Their
rs, executors or administrators, shall be ia
bic to AL such fines, interests, damages aud
costs, and be recovered III the same manner as IN
case OF de!antt iii the payment OF the Common
wealth revenue
BE it further enacted, Tha, it shall be til. ll.
ty Of every collector making a 'e by vittut Of
this act, to make cnd execute % the purcbasera
deed in fec simple for the lands purchased, rec.-
ting the cause oi sale, and in every Sctieu 1r
suit At law or in equity, in which 4 former own-
CT or owners of any ,iIct Of iA;il So sod AID
conveyed, his, her or their befs, devi,ec, or u.
;acr person or persons cl lining under hir', her
OF them, shall contest the vAl,lty al tnr sale so
made, the on.s p,obln.!i shah lie on the patty
ccnfestirg.
BE it further enacted, That the commissioner
or commissioners tor discharges. the duties re-
quired on them by Ills act, shall be entitled to
receive from the pnnlc treasury commmssion
OF one and an hall per ccntum OF the amour, Of
sales, on warrant from the auditor CT pubic
accounts.
BE it further enacted, That it shall b the d..
ty OF the auditor OF public accounts, at the Drb.
nc expense, TO cause copy Of this act, ar,! OF
an act passed the first day of February, in the
y:ar orc thousand eight hundred and s:x, enti-
- CT : An act giving further time to the pro-
piielors o! certain lands forfeited for the non
payment Of taxes, to redeem the same, and also
OF an act passed on the twentieth day of jan
uary, III the year one thousand eight hundred
and seven, en,liuled, !" An act to amend an act.
entitued " an act, more eHectualiy to provide
orihe payment of taxes upon lands witf;n this
commonwealth to he published fol six months
successfully IN the present ,aud ior three
months successfully preceding the first
Monday in August in the year one Thousand
elIh' hundred and eleven, to he published in
some newspaper, Of general circulation. edited
IN each Of the nitedStatee, If any such there be,
And be it further enacted, That tie duties en-
joined in this act to be performed hy the co,lcc.
tors, shall where the sheriff is collector. he ucr.
formed by the high sheriff in person. and every
purchase made, wholly or in part, hy tie sbe,R
OF ms asPa'l, or by any other person being
collector, OF by any other person, wholly or
IN part, Tor the use of such sheriff, deputy
sHe,ht or other person being collector shall be
V''d ;and every sheriff leputy sheriff or other
.eiS"n being collector, making any purchase,
c""ef wholly or IN part, for himself, or procur-
w any other person 10 make such pur chase.
Wholly or in part for the use aforesaid. shall
1.'fr'' and pay the sum Of $500, ,othe use Of
tne pubic, 10 be recovered by hiis plant or in.
FORMATION, in any court Of .cor,l La1ias
nrisdlction thereof
thereof. f@''"'5
a copy from the Ror-Tcste.
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