Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-07-04
To non-re8ident Ldnddoldets and PnY-
cha8er8 Of Illinois Bounty Lands.

TO nonresident Ldrdhokdets ana EHfs
cha8er8 Of Illinois Bounty Lands.
FESHE subscriber formerly of the city of Al
Il bany, and now residing at Edwardsyilie'
(lllinos) will act as agent for such gentlemen
as may think proper to confde 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
berecorded at the Recorders Office in Edwards
vile; and, in order to hold against subsequent
sale of the land, it is necessary to have them
tiledfor 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 Land Office money! for each deed
ofthe usual length, will promptly attended to.
BY law of the state of Illinois, il 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 that 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, 81 per 100
| acres, or $500 per quarter section.
Lands of the I'd quality and class, S1.5O per
| 100 acres, or S2,40 per quarter section.
Lands of the Sd quality and class, 81 per 100
| acres, or S1,60 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 ell
Their in entering his land with the Auditor by
the LIST of August, OF 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 being of the first quality. This
will make the tax amount to per 100 acres,
| Or $500 per quarter section-which sum, to-
gether with the sherif's fees and costs of adj
vertisng may be paid to the sheriff authorized
to sell the land, before or at the time appoint
| ed for such sale. Non-resdents' 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
mentis situated at the door ofthe courthouse O.
such county-previous notice having been Civ
en- of such sale by an advertisement inserted
five weeks successfully in some newspaper
| printed at the seat of government, if there be
| any such newspapers 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 of public accounts the price for which
such lands were sold, with an addition Of 100
per cent.-amountng to S12 per 100 acres, or
| $3.50 per quarter section, besides sheriii'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, it is stipulated that
the bounty lands granted, or hereafter to be
granted, for military services during the late
war, shall, rfIe they continue to be held6y the pa
tentees or Mei' 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.
Bounty lands purchased from the patentees
before the 1st August, 1918, on which the tax
has not been paid, are charged with triple tax
for that year, amounting to 1925 per hundred
acres, or $3.50 per quarter section.
The subscriber viii 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 Gollar per quarter section for enter
ing lands and paying the tax. A deduction of
IS per cent from this price will be made when
SO or more tracts 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.
Edrvardsville, (Es } Jan. %, 1920.
| References.
G. A. Worth, Esq. Cashier U S B b. Cincinnati.
Mr.. II. Deming, Printer, Louisville, Ky.
Mr.. GeoJ Bacon, Philadelphia
Messrs II oodruH & Candle, S. Whiting, and
| Daniel Fanshaw, New-York
Messrs. Websters & SINNERS, John Boardman,
! f. F. Backus, and f. & f. Hosford, Albany.
Mr.. Richard Corss, Printer, Hudson, NY.
Mr.. Everard Peck, Rochester, N. Y.
Gen. w. l.. Churchill, Batavia, NY.
DIR. J. |. Prendergast, and Rev. Jesse Churchill
| Winfield, NY.
S. B. Leonard, Esq. Owego, NJ Y.
f. Tilden, Esq. p. M. New-Lebhon, n. Y.
Mr.. N. Smith and Mr. w. I.Stone, Hartford, CT.
LAND OFFICE MONEY.
Bills ofthe taAowing Banks are receivable at III.
Land Office in EdsvardsrfRe.
Bank of the United States, and its branches
| Rank Of Illinois ShawanntoWn