Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-05-05


the Suld President aud Directors If the person or
persons, In whose name names such lands have
been heretofore returned delinquent, and vested IN
the said President and Directors, WERE at the date
of such forfeiture declared and still remain, under
disability of infancy, covcrture, insane mind or I'M
prsonmcnt and If the person persons in whose
name such land, shall be according to
the provisions of this forfeited and vested in the
said President and Directors, have been returned
delinquent, under any of the said dsablli-
ucs;-and IT the person or presons, in whose name
names, such lands, according to the provisions
of this act shall or NAV be hereafter forfeited !
and vested in the said President and Directors.
shall be- returned delinquent, shall be at the |
date of such forfeiture under any of the said dis
abllities-m such case, IL shall and may be law !
full for such person persons 10 redeem such lands
by payment into the treasury upon the warrant of
the Auditor OF all arrears c: Justly due and
chargeable thereon with ten per ccntum per annum
damages on the same from the time or times when
the taxes accrued or shall accrue. within two years
next after their respective disabilities removed and
not afterwards; and If suchperson persons shall die
in any such state OF disability. then the heirs de
vsces of such person persons dying, may like
manner, and on the like terms redeem such lands
within two years after the death of HIS her or their
ancestor or dcviSor.
And, Prorided, that nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to annu, impair any wise affect
| the rights of any purchaser purchasers of any
lands heretofore forfeited for payment of taxes,
ard sold in pursuance of any former laws but all such
rights shall continue to be regulated and determined
had never been passed
l. shall be the duty Of the First Auditor, to
cause alphabetical lists OF all the lands in the Com
monwcalth, which hcre oore have been, or which
hereafter may be, returned delinquent for non pay.
mcnt of taxes, and which rcdccmablc according
to the provisions of this act, be made out; begin
ming in making out such lists with the counties lying
West OF the Allegheny Mountains and publishing.
IN manner hereinafter mentioned the list Of ni.s
which have been returned dclinqucn, before tire pass
ing OF this act, the same can be made out
for the purpose, and the list of lands which NAV
hereafter be returned delinquent, between he months
of February and Nav. of tho year succeeding that
in which the delinquency shall and be returned:
in which lists the Auditor shall specify IN separate
columns the names of the persons tn whom respcc-
lively such lands stand charged with,thc taxes, the
several tracts, and the quantity uf land in ach tract
the year yeas for the taxes whereof the same are
delinquent, the amount of taxes due thereon, aud in
arrcar, the comfy counties wherein the lands lie
f and such descriptions Of he local situation thereof
As the information III his office will ennblc him To
make and the Auditor shall contract for the printing
OF the SAID lists, from time TO time as they
are completed, upon sheets of convenient size, in
qnarto form, and shall the same TO be exlcr-
slvcly circulated throughout the Commonwealth. and
III other States, and shall cause two hundred copics
Thereof to be bound, and shall send of them to
be deposited IN the Clc:k office every county and
corporation court in the commonwealth
Be 1t further enacted, That the Auditor of Pub
lie Accounts shall cause tins TO be published i'm
such OF the newspapers within this Commonwealth
and not exceeding two such newspapers out of this
Commonwealth, for term not exceeding one month,
as he shall think necessary give notice of the pro-
visions thereof and he shall audit the accounts there
OIL to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not
: otherwise appropriated.
z. In all controversies which shall or NAV arise
touching the delinquency and forfeiture OF such lands
for non payment OF taxes by the provisions Of this
act or shall be irredeemable and the vestg there
OF IN the President and Directors of the Literary Fund
the certificate of the Auditor of Public Accounts of
such delinquency and forfeiture shall " as against
the person or persons IN whose name or names such
lands have been shall be returned delinuueni his
her. or their heirs devisces, laborng under any
disability of infancy, coverture, mind or impr
sonmen evidence OF such delinquency in respect to
the same, and of the forfeiture thereof and of the title
vested IN the SAID President nd Directors nor shall
such forfeiture, or the title vested i'll the said Presi
dent and Directors, be Impeached for any ALLEGED
TreBularIy IN the proceedings by which such forfei-
ture accrued other than the fact that the taxes for
non payment whereof. the forfeiture was imposed had
been actually paid. unless the rregulartiy alleged
appear on the face OF the proceedings; and any person
impeachInS tie title SO vested ia the said President
and Directors the ground that the taxes were NOT
IN arrear, shall DC held to proof Of the payment
thereof
8. And whereas it is known TO the General Assem-
bly,, That III many Cases. lands parts or parcels of
lands especially such as have been granted and ap-
propra'ed, under the act passed at the May SESSION
IN the year one thousand hundred and seventy
nine, entitled an act for establishing a Land Office
and ascertaning the terms and manner of granting
waste and unappropriated lands, and the subsequent
avs OH VIZ same subleCt,) winch have heretofore
been, or may hereafter lie returned delinquent for
non payment OF taxes, and which have been heretofore
vested by law, IN the President and Directors Of the
Literary fri, or which by the provisions of this act
Shall or nay hereafter he forfeited and vested i'm the
sad President and Directors, held by persons other
man mos Tor whose deaSlt .h"y have Deen, or shall
be 50 forfeited, claiming bona fde mcda,cly or inn
nedAtey, under grants from the Common wealth: and
mat the sad actual holders and bona fde claimants
nave settled and improved the lands so by them held
ana CLAIMED, and have, moreover, paid all public taxes
thereon, doe and charged, Justly chargcabIe To
em and II IS therefore, reasonable and lust that the
utes OF such actual holders aud bona fIe claimants
should be quoted and perfected so far as the trans
Ter to them OF the rights vested IN the said Precedent
and Dectors-and, therefore, subject TO the disposi
ton OF the General Assembly, can accomplish tia,
object. ~
BE IT, therefore, further enacted That all the right
t'Ie and interest OF the said President and Directors
~ or to any lands, except such shall he herein after
excepted, which have heretofore been vested by law
~ The SAID PresIden; and Directors or which by the
provisions OF this act, may hereafter be forfeited and
Ves'' ~ the President and Directors shall and may
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