Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-08-08

paupers to prescribe the terms and
conditions upon which free negroes and
mulattoes may reside in the city; to
authorize, with the appreciation of the
President of the United States, the draw
ing of lotteries for the erection of bridges,
and effecting any important improve
ments in the city, which the ordinary
revenue thereof will not accomplish, for
the term of ten years Provided, That
the amount so authorized to be raised in
each year shall not exceed the sum of
ten thousand dollars, clear of expenses
to take care of and regulate burial
grounds; to provide for the registering
of births, deaths, and marriages to
punish corporeally any colored servant
or slave for breach of any of their laws
or ordinances, unless the owner or holder
of such servant or slave shall pay the fine
| in such cases provided and to pass all
laws which shall be deemed necessary
and proper for carrying into execution
the powers vested by this act in the said
corporation or its officers.
Sec. 9. lind be it further enacted,
That the Marshal of the District of CO.
lumbia shall receive and safely keep
within the Jail for the county of WASH
ington, at the expense of the said corpo-
ration all persons committed thereto, un-
der or by authority of the provisions of
this act. And in all cases where suit
shall be brought before justice of the
peace, for the recovery OF any fine or
penalty arising or incurred for breach
OF any law or ordinance of the corpora
ton, execution shall and may be issued
as in all other cases of small debts.
Sec. 10. .dnd be it further enacted,
That real property, whether improved or
unimproyed, in the city of Washington,
on which two or more years taxes shall
have remained due and unpaid, or on
which any special tax, imposed by virtue
of authority of the provisions of this act,
shall have remained unpaid for two or
more years after the same shall have be-
come due, OF so much thereof, not less
than lot, (when the property upon
which the tax has accrued is not less
than that quantity as may be necessary
to pay any such taxes, with all legal
costs and charges arising thereon, may
be sold at public sale to satisfy the cor
poratlon therefor: Provided, That pub
| lie notice be given of the time and place
of sale, by advertising once week, in
some newspaper printed in the city of
Washington, for at least six months,
where the property is assessed to persons
residing out of the United States for
| three months, where the property is as
sessed to persons residing in the United
States, but without the District of Co.
lumbia and for six weeks, where the
property is assessed to persons residing
within the District of Columbia; in
which advertisement shall be stated the
number of the lot or lots, (if the square
has been divided into lots, the number
OF the square or squares, or other sufii-
cient definite description of the property
selected for sale, the name of the person
or persons to whom the same may have
been assessed, for the respective years
taxes due thereon, as also the name of
the person to whom the same is assessed,
and the aggregate amount OF taxes due.
The purchaser or purchasers of any such
property shallpay,a the time ofsuch sale,
the amount of the taxes due ON the pro-
perry so purchased by him, her, or them,
respectively, with the amount OF the ex-
penses of sale; and he, she, or they, shall
pay the residue of the purchase money
within ten days after the expiration Of
two years from the day of sale, to the
collector of taxes, or other officer of the
corporation authorized to receive the
same; and the amount of such residue
shall be placed in the city treasury, where
it shall remain, subject to the order OF
the original proprietor or proprietors,
his, her, or their, legal representatives
and the purchaser or purchasers, shall
receive title in fee simple, in and to the
lot or lots SO sold and purchased, under
the hand Of the Mayor and seal of the
Corporation, which shall be deemed
good and valid in law and equity: Pro-
vided, neUertheless, That if, within two
years from the day of any such sale, or
before such purchaser or purchasers
shall have paid the residue of the pur-
chase money as aforesaid, the proprietor
or proprietors of any such property which
shall have been sold as aforesaid, his,
her, or their, heirs, agents, or legal re-
representatives., shall repay to such pur-
chaser or purchasers the moneys paid
tor the taxes, and expenses as aforesaid,
together with ten per centum per annum,
as interest thereon, or make tender
thereof, or shall deposit the same in the