Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-10-02
To nonresident Landholders and Par-
chasers of Illinois Bounty Lands.

To nonresident Landholders and Par
cha8er8 Of Illinois Bounty Lands.
vsSHE subscriber, formerly of the city of Al
bany, and now residing at Edwardsyille,
Qllinois) will act as agent for such gentlemen
as may think proper to confide to hum their
business in relation to the recording OF deeds
for Bounty Lands, and the payment OF taxes
upon the same and other lands. All deeds OF
Bounty Lands in Illinois are required by law to
be recorded at the Recorders office in Edwards
Vile; and, in order to hold against subsequent
sale of the land, it is necessary to have them
filedfor record within one year from their date.
The original patent from the United States, is
not required to be recorded. Letters, free OF
postage, enclosing deeds for recording, and
three dollars H;nd Office money! for each deed
the usual length, will be promptly attended to.
BY a law of the state of Illinois, it is required
that every nonresident owning land, "whether
by deed entry, bond for conveyance, patent,
grant, or otherwise, or where the same has
been entered in any land office established for
the sale of lands lying within this state, shall,
on or before the first day of August in each year,
enter the same with the Auditor of public &C
counts, by presenting to him list of his lands.
the quality and class Of each tract OF the same,
the number of acres in each tract, and the
county in which it is situated. This list must
be accompanied by an affidavit of the owner, or
his agent, stating tina such list contains true
description of such lands to the best of the
deponent's knowledge and belief.
The taxes imposed on lands, by this law, are
| as follows -
Lands of the 1st quality and class, 50 per 100
acres, or 1922 per quarter section.
Lands of the Cd quality and class, $3.50 per
100 acres, or $40 per quarter section.
IL, h., Il Iclng
acres, or 81, 81 per quarter section.
This tax is required to be paid by non-resi-
dents to the state treasurer, on Or before the
first day Of October in each year. A failure eli
Their in entering his land with the Auditor by
the LIST OF August, or in paying the tax to the
Treasurer By the 1st of October, subjects the
owner to the payment of three times the
amount Of the tax, and in such case his lands
are taxed as beng OF the first quality. This
will make the tax amount to tI6 per 100 acres,
or $3.50 per quarter section-wMch sum, to-
gctler with the sheriff fees and costs OF adj
vcrtisng, may be paid to the sheriff authorized
to sell the land, before or at the time appoint
ed for such sale. Non-residents' lands which
shall not have been entered with the Auditor
as aforesaid, and such as shall have been enter
ed, but upon which the tax shall not have been
paid, are to be sold for the tax and fees, by the
sheriff of the county in which the seat OF govern
mentisstuated, at the door of the courthouse of
such county-preyious notice having been Civ
en- Of such sale by an advertisement inserted
five weeks successfully in some newspaper
printed at the sat OF government, ii there be
any such newspaper; and if not, then IN the
newspaper printed nearest thereto. Lands,
sold for taxes may be redeemed within two
years from the day of sale, by paying to the
Auditor CT public accounts the price tor which
such lands were sold, with an addition OF 100
per cent.-amounting to S12 per 100 acres, or
1920 per quarter section, besides sherif's
fees and costs of advertising. Lands belong
ing wholly or in part to heirs not of lawful
age, may be redeemed within one year after
the youngest heir becomes of age. Persons
purchasing bounty lands after the 9th CT
March last, are allowed nine months from the
date of purchase, to enter the same with the
Auditor.
BY an agreement between the United States
and the state Of Illinois, it is stipulated that
Z" the bounty lands granted, or hereafter to be
granted, for military services during the late
war, shall, zohfle they contSe to be hetdby The pa
tentees or their heirs, remain exempt from all
taxes for the term Of three gears from and after
the date Of the patents respectively" This
agreement being paramount to the state law,
| such lands are not considered as taxable.
The subscriber will pay strict attention to
any orders accompanied by the cash) in rela-
ton to the entering Of lands with the Auditor,
& the payment Of the taxes thereon. His price
will be one dol1arper quarter section for enter
! ing lands and paying the tax. A deduction of
| Is per cent. from this price viii be made when
| SO or more tracts are to be entered for the
same person. Bank paper transmitted either
for recorders fees Or taxes, must be such as is
receivable in the Land Office at Edwards
Vile A list of the banks whose bills are thus
| received, is subjoined.
GEORGE CHURCHILL.
EdrrardsviAe, (h. } May %, 1919.
References.
G. A. Worth, ESQ. Cashier U s B. B. Cincinnati.
Mr.. II. Deming, Printer, Louisville, Ky.
Mr.. George Bacon, Philadelphia
Messrs. Woodruff & Cande, S. Whiting, and
Daniel Fanshaw, New-York.
NIessrs. Websters & SINNERS, John BoardmaH,
E. f. Backus, ard E. & T.. Hosford Albany.
MIR. Richard Corss, Printer, Hudson, NY.
| Isaac Riggs, ESQ. Schenectady, II. Y.
Mr.. Everard Peck, Rochester, n. Y.
| Gen. w. l.. Churchill, Batavia, N. Y.
s. B. Leonard, Esq. owego, N. Y.
DR.. j. l. Prendergast, and Rev. Jesse Churchill,
Winfield, NY.
F.. T'den, Esq. PM. New-L ebanon, NJ Y.
William Fay, Esq. Rutland, Vt.
Mr. n Smith and Mr.. w. L.Stone, Hartford, CT.
Maj. Joseph Shllman, Wethersfieid, Conn.
Mr.. Levi Stiilman, New-Hayen, Conn.
Mr.. Chauncy S. Payn, Detroit.
LAND OFFICE MONEY.
Bills efthe touorung Banks are receivable at The
Land office in Ed.vardsviiye.
Bank of the United States, and its branches,
Rank 1f IIEnnis S,ha,ynum+Cu-n