The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-06-08
GPuBL1c-No. 58.1

heITeScHtQttUeS CJ inc CNHft otu4Co " ~
merica in Congress assembled, That ten
ements and lots of ground within the town
of Alexandria, on which taxes, assessments
or charges remain due and unpaid, to the
Common Council of the said town, for the
space of two years, or shall hereafter re-
main due and unpaid, for that space of time,
or so much of said lots as may be necessary,
may be sold at public auction for the pay
ment of the taxes, assessments or charges,
which are or shall be due thereon, with the
expenses attending the sale Provided, that
before any such sale be made, an affidavit OF
the collector of the district or ward In which
such lots lie, stating that no goods or chat
tells of the person or persons charged with
the payment of such taxes assessments or
charges, sufficient to satisfy the same, can
be found within the corporation, shall be
lodged with the clerk of the common coun-
cil Ind Proyidrd, that public notice OF the
time and place of such sale shall be given by
advertising in some newspaper published Ill
the town of Alexandria, for at least six
months, where the property is assessed to
persons residing out of the United States
three months where the property is ass sscd
to persons within the U. States, but without
the District of Columbia and six weeks
when the property is assessed to pcrsons
residing within the District of Columbia
in which notice shall be stated, the street Or
streets on which lots lie, the streets by which
the square in which they lie is bounded, the
name of the person or persons to whom they
have been last assessed, OH the books OF the
Assessors, and the amount of the taxes, as
sessments or charges, due thereon: .iAd
Propided f4rther, That the purchaser or
purchasers shall not be obliged to pay, at
the time Of such sale, more than the taxes,
assessments or charges due, and the expcns
cs Of sale; and that, if within two years from
the day of sale, the proprietor or proprletors
OF such lot his, her, their heirs, representa-
tives or agents shall repay to such purchas-
er, or to the Mayor, the money paid for such
taxes or rassessments,or charges and expenses
as aforesaid, with ten per cent per annum,
as interest thereon, or make tender of the
same, he or she shall be re-instatcd in his,
her, or their original title +; but if no such
tender be made, within two years next after
such sale, then the purchaser shall pay the
balance of the purchase money OF such lot or
lots, into the Treasury ofthe Common Coun-
Gil, where it shall remain, subject to the order
ofthe proprietor urproprietors, or his, her, ol
their legal representatives; AID the pur-
chaser, ON the payment Of the whole amount
TO said lot or lots, in fee simple, from the
Mayor. under his hand, and the seal of III
office, which Shall be deemed good and yalit
in law and equity.
SEC. 2. .dna be- fatther enacted, Tha
r The Common Council Of Alexandria shal
nave power to provide for the establishment
maintenance and SUI reriatendence of pubic
schools, and for the registering Of 6irtus
marriages and deaths, ana shall nave pow u
to preserve the navigation of the Potomac II,
yer, within: their jurisdiction to erect, re
par and regulate public Wharvea, decpci
} docks and basins, and 10 limit the extension
. o! private wnalvcs into the harbor; 10 au
thorise, with the Appreciation of the plcsi
dent It the Umted States, the drawiNs Of H..
: teries tor etiecting any important Trrl>>
tnent in and t. tu-, town, which the orti,hat
funds and revenue thereof will n0 acc au,
plish to restrain and prohibit t,r dra wiz,
Ut other lotteries, the keeping OF tippll y
houses and all kinds of gaming; to roNii
for the licensing taxing and regulating auG
tlons theatrical and public shows and d
musements, and venders of lottery t;ck
ets to appoint guagers of casks, inspec
tors of domestic spirits, measurers and in
spectors of wood, lumber, and bark, grain
coal, beef, pork, fish, butter and lard :
WtlSnerS OF nay, IOuuef ana straw anG u
regulate, by law, the inspection, measure
ment and weighing of the articles aforesaid
to regulate party and other walls and fences
and to determine by whom they shall b,
kept in repair to direct in what part of tn
town buildings of wood shall not be erected
and to regulate the size Of bricks to be mad
: or used and shall have power to restrain
and prohibit the nightly and other disorder
ly meetings of slaves, free. negroes and nu
lattoes, and to punish such slaves by whip
5 ping not exceeding forty stripes, or, at tn
: option of the owner of such slave BY fine O
= confinement to labor, and not exceeding
j three months for every one offence; and t
t punish such free negroes and mulattoes 70
! every such offence by fixed penalties, no
exceeding twenty dollars for one offence
J, and in case of the failure of such free negr
and mulatto to pay and satisfy such penalt
and costs, to cause such free negro or nulat
to to be confined to labor for any time, ne
: exceeding six months for any one offence
: to cause and provide for the removal of al
: !, such paupers, vagrants and other per
= sons. as may not be legally entitled t
II residence within the said corporation t
: punish, by fine CT penalty, any minor Q
> apprentice, guilty of any breach Of an
:, law of the corporation, and unless such fin
II or penalty, with the costs Of prosecution, b
paid by the parent, guardian, or master
such minor or apprentice, by coniincmcr
5. to labor for limited time, not exceedin
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