Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-02-08
To nonresident Ldndholder8 and Pure
cha8erS Of Illinois Bounty Lands.


YBVHE subscriber formerly of the city of Al
Il bany, and now residing at Edwardsville,
(llinois) will act as agent for such gentlemen
as may think proper to confide to him 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 the Recorders Office in Edwards
vile and, in order to hold against a subsequent
sale of the land, it is necessary to have them
fledfor record within one year from their dates
The original patent from the United States is
not required to be recorded. Letters, free of
postage, enclosing deeds for recording, and
three dollars Gland Office money } for each deed
ofthe usual length, WILDE promptly attended to-
By 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 ac-
counts, by presenting to him list of his lands,
the quality and clsss 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 that such list contains true
/
Opponents knowledge and belief
The taxes imposed on lands, by this law, are
as follows =
Lands OF the LIST quality and class, 81 per 100
acres, or $500 per quarter section.
Lands OF the ID quality and class, S1,50 per
100 acres, or $40 per quarter section.
| Lands of the Sd quality and class, 81 per 100
acres, OF LOO 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 ei-
| Their in entering his land with the Auditor by
| the lst OF August, or in paying the tax to the
| Treasurer by the LIST 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 being of the first quality. This
will make the tax amount to S6per 100 acres,
| or S9,oO per quarter section--wkich sum, to.
gether with the sheritf'S fees and costs of adj
Yertsing, may be paid to the sheriff authorized
to sell the land. before or at the time appoint>
ed for such sale. Non-rcsldents' 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 which the seat ofgove1n-
mcnts situated, al the door ofthe court house Of
such county previous notice having been CIV
| en- OF such sale by an advertisement inserted
five weeks successfully in some newspaper
printed at the scat Of government, if there be
any such newspaper; ana 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 OF public accounts the price for which
such lands were sold, with IN addition Of 100
per cent.-amounting to So per 100 acres, or
$3.50 per quarter section, besides s8eriif'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 ofage Persons pur.
chasing bounty lands after the 9th of 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, 1t is stipulated that
the bounty lands granted, or hereafter to be
granted, for military services during the late
war, shall, 7vhiie they continue to be held BIZ the ba-
teltees or their heirs, remain exempt from all
taxes for the term OF three years from and after
the date Of the patents respectively" This
agreement being par,nount TO the state law,
such lands are not considered as taxable.
Bounty lands purchased from the patcntees
before the LIST August, 1918, on which the tax
has not been paid, are charged with triple tax
for that year, amounting to S2,25 per hundred
acres, or $500 per quarter section.
The subscriber will pay strict attention to
any orders accompanied by the CASH in rea-
ton to the entering of lands with the Auditor.
& the payment of the taxes thereon. His price
will be one dollar per 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.
Edrardsrille, { Is Jan. 80, 1920.
References.
G. A. Worth, Esq. Cashier U s. p 3. Cincinnati,
Mr.. II. Deming, Printer, Louisville, Ky.
Mr.. George Bacon, Philadelphia
Messrs Woodruff & Candle, S. Whiting, and
Daniel Fanshaw, Ncw-York
Messrs. Websters & SINNERS, John Boardman,
f.. F. Bac1's, and +. & L. Hosford, Albany.
Mr.. Richar,ts orss, Printer, Hudson, NY.
NJ. Everard Peck, Rochester, N. Y.
Gen. W. l.. Churchill, Batavia, N Y.
S. b. Leonard, Esq. Owego, NY.
DR.. j. |. Prendergast, and Rev. Jesse Churchill,
Winfield, N. Y
r. T'ilden, Esq. p. M.Ncw-Lebanon, N Y.
Mr.. N. Smith and Mr.. w. E.Stone, Hartford, CT
LAND OFFICE MONEY.
Bills ofthe foHowing Banks are receivable at tie
Land Office IN Ed.yards,iMs.
Bank of the United States, and its branches
Bank of Illinois, Shawanotown,
ID ,,,Jro r. 1 M