Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-06-13
To nonresident Zandholders ard Pug.


TEvHE subscriber, formerly of the city of ~
4 bany, and now residing at Edwardsvle,
Qlinois) will act as agent for such gentlemes
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
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 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, WILDE promptly attended to.
BY a 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 OF 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 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, 80 per 100
acres, or $500 per quarter section.
| Lands of the Cd quality and class, S1,50 per
100 acres, or $40 per quarter section.
| Lands of the Sd quality and class, 81 per 100
acres, or 81, so per quarter section.
| This tax is required to be paid by non-res.
| dents to the state treasurer, on or before the
| first day of October in each year. failure Ell
Their in entering his land with the Auditor by
the LIST 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 S6p per 100 acres,
or $3.50 per quarter section-which sum, to-
| gether with the sheriff's fees and costs Of adj.
vertising, may be paid to the sheriff authorized
to sell the land, before or at the time appoint
| ed for such sale. Non-rcsidcnts' 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 ofthe county seat of govern.
mentisstuateol, at the door ofthe 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 seat of government, if 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 of public accounts the price for which
such lands were sold, with addition of 100
| per cent-amounting to SO per 100 acres, or
| $3.50 per quarter section, besides sheriH'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 ur-
| chasing bounty lands after the 9th of March
| last, arc 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 zehite they continue to be held BY the pa
tealteeS or their heirs, remain exempt from all
| taxesfor the term of three years 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 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 49, per quarter section.
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 ofthe taxes thereon. His price
will be one dollarper quarter section for enter
| ing lands and paying the tax. A deduction of
% per cent. from this price will be made when
| 81 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.
Edsuardsville, (Is. } Jan. %, 1920.
References
G. A. Worth, Esq. Cashier U-s.BB Cincinnati.
Mr.. II. Deming, Printer, Louisville, Ky.
Mr.. George Bacon, Philadelphia.
Messrs. Woodruff & Candle, S. Whiting, and
Daniel Fanshaw, New-York
Messrs. Websters K SINNERS, John Boarclman,
+. F. Backus, and Z. & Z. Hosford, Albany.
Mr.. Richard Corss, Printer Hudson, NY.
Mr.. Everard Peck, Rochester, N Y.
Gen. w. l.. Churchill, Batavia, N. Y.
DR.. J.I Prendergast, and Rev Jesse Churchill,
Winfield, NY.
S.B. Leonard, Esq. Owego, NY.
f. Tden, Esq. m New-Lebanon, NY.
Mr.. N. Smith and Mr.. w. L. Stone. Hartford, Ct,
LAND OFFICE MONEY.
Ellis ofthe foyowins. Banks are receivable at ne
Land Office IN Ed1vardszai,s.
Bank of the United States, and its branches,
| Bank of Illinois, Shawanetown,
| Bank OF Edwardsvlie Illinois,