The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1821-05-29


payment thereof, as by this act they might
have done before other constables or collectors
were chosen and sworn.
SEC. %. BE AZ further enacted, That when
any person shall remove from any town or
place. where he lived or bad bis residence al
The tune OF making The list OF any State. town,
county, plantation or parish tax or assess
meni, not having before paid the respective
suns or sums set cpon him by such lists, IL
shall and NAV be lawful for the constable or
collector, 10 whom any such tax or assessment
shall be committed, with warrant to collect,
and he is hereby authorized and empowered
10 demand the sum or sums assessed upon
such person, in what town or place soever,
within this Stale, he may be found and upon
refusal or neglect 10 pay the same. to distran
the said person, by hs goods and chattes as
aforesaid, and for want Of such distress, To
commit Inc party 10 the common gaol of the
county where he shall lie found, there TO re-
main until payment be made.
SEC. 90. Be itfurfher enacted, That where
any person duly rated in any town, parish or
plantation hath died or shall die before The
payment OF The same rates, and where any
.
or shall remove out Of the town or plantation
IN which such person lived al tire tin1e such rates
were OF may he assessed, before The payment
OF sUcL rates and where any unmarried wo-
man, being duly rated as aforesaid, bath inter
married. o. shall intermarry before the pay
ment OF such rates in all such cases, il shah
and nav be lawful for the constables or col
ieclors VI such Town, parish ~ plantation, 10
Sspe>$cr such rates, ana they shall have the
like remedy for the recovery thereof as other
Creditors have for recovering their proper
debts And the assessors of any town, in as
sess II my State, county or town taxes may
az shy are authorized al their election to
asse improved lands, houses or tenements TO
the tenants in possession of the same, or TO the
owners thereof, if living within the State.
SECT. 80 BE Il further enacted, That where
no peTson appears 10 discharge the taxes on
the unmproyed lands Of NONRESIDENT propri-
etors, or improved lands OF proprietors living
out OF The limits of tins State, to the collector
thereof, he shall advertise in The public news
paper Of the printer TO The State for the time
being. three weeks successfully the names of
all such propreIors, where they are by him
known, with The sum OF the taxes assessed on
their lands respectively, and also the time end
place Gt sale ; and where they ara not known
he snail, 10 the same manner, publish the sum
oi lle lakes on the several rights, numbers Of
Ios, " divisions and where The name of the
pace ~ wliicb such lands lie may have been
altered by any act three years next preceding
such advertisement, he shall express not only
ibe present name, but the name by which the
Sc re was last known, and 10 either case shall
post the same in some convenient and conspic-
uous place in The same town or plantation, as
the case may be, where the SAID lands lie, for
the term q three weeks previous TO the time
appointed for such sale and also advertise
the sstne 10 one OF The newspapers printed ID
the county where said lands lie, or in The next
adjoining county. if any such there be, for
three weeks successfully, previous 10 the time
OF sale and II no person shall appear there
upon TO discharge the sad taxes and all neces-
saTy intervening charges, then The collector
Aforesaid shall proceed 10 sell al public auc
ton 10 he highest bidder. after waiting two
hours from the time appolnteJ for said sale,)
so much only of the said lands as shall be
sufficient 10 discharge said taxes, and the ne
cesssry intervening charges, having first given
notice Of the Intended sale thereof. and the
time and place y hen and where the same will
be made as aforesaid: aud shall have power
TO adjourn iron day TO day u necessary 10
complete he said sale, not 10 exceed three
days, (waitiug as sforesaid) and shall give and
execute deed or deeds, 10 the purchaser or
purchasers, hls or their heirs and assigns, rex
pressing therein the Cause Of such sale and
saving 10 The aforesaid proprietor or proprie-
tors, The right OF redemption of. any lands so
sold within any time for the space Of tive
years from the lime OF such sale and the
same shall be reconyeyed TO him or them, the
said proprietor or Propneiors. on pay ing with
IN two years as aforesaid, The sum such land
sold for with interest, al the rate OF twenty per
cent per snnun on said sum, together with all
necessary Intervening charges PROVIDED
nevertheless, That The purchaser OF purchasers
as aforesaid, shall not make any strip or
waste on the premises, until The lime of re-
dempuon shall have expired and if the said
purchaser or purchasers shall make any strip
or waste on the premises, as aforesaid, be OF
they shall be liable TO pay all damages 10 the
original owner or owners, in as fall and ample
msuner as il he or they had not purchased
the saue.
SECT. 81. BE al further enacted, That where
the owners OF improved real estate living
within this State, but not 10 The town in which
such real estate lies, shall lie taxed 10 aDy
State, county or town taxes, and sha neglect
far tho snare af months affar tI..