Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-05-07


tors and of lands which shall hereafter be returned
delinquent for non payment of taxes hereafter to &c
cruc and which shall be by kIce of the provisions
nj tins act, forfeited for that cause and vested IN
the said President aud Directors; II the person
persons, whose name names such lands have |
been heretofore returned delinquent, and vested IN |
the said President aud Directors, were at the date
OF such forfeiture declared and still rcanln, urd,
dlsa ability of infancy. covcrture, insane mind or :ni
prlsonmcnt, and If the person persons in whose
name names such land shall be according TO
the provisions Of this act forfeited and vested III The
said President and Directors, have been returned
delinquent, now under any of the SAID dsabilt-
tcs;-ond 1t the person or presons in whose ramc
names, such lands, according to the provisions
Of this act shall may be hereafter forfeited
and vested Ill the said Pres:den; and Directors.
shall he returned delinquent, shall be at the
date Of such forfeiture under any of the snd dis
ab:lltiCs-in such case, 1t shall and may be law.
!ul for such person persons 10 redeem such lands
by payment into the treasury. upon The warrant OF
the Auditor of all arrears Of taxes Justly due and
chargeablc thereon with ten per ccntum per annum
damages on the same from the TIM. or times when
the taxes accrued, or shall accrue. within two wears
next after their respective sablu:cs removed. and
not afterwards: and # suchperson persons shall die
in any such stat" Of disability. then the heirs DE-
vlsees OF such person persons dying, may in like
manner, and the like terms redeem such lands
within two years after the death Of his, her their
ancestor or devlSor.
And, Prorided, that nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to annu, impair any affect
the rights of any purchaser or purchasers OF any
lands heretofore forfeited Tor payment OF taxes,
and sold in pursuance of any former law: but all such
rights shall continue TO be regulate and determined
by tho former laws relating 10 them, if this act
had never been passed.
I. shall he the duty of the "irst Auditor, to
cause alphabetical lists of all the lands in the Com
monwealth, which hcrc oiorc have been, which
hereafter may be, returned delinquent for non pay.
ment Of taxes, and which redeemable according
the provisions OF this act, To he made out; begin
ming in making out such lists, with the counties lying
West OF the Allegheny Mountains, md publishing.
in manner hereinafter mentioned. the lis, Of lanss
which have been returned delinquent before tic pass
ing of this act, the same can be made out
for he purpose, ard the list Of lands which may
hereafter be returned dergucr, between h months
Of February and May az lie year succeeding that
in which the delinquency shall occur aud te returned:
III which lists the Auditor shall specify. separate
columns. the names Of tho persons tu whom rcspcc-
tIveIy such lnndS stand charged wth'thc taxes the
several tracts, and the quantity of land in each ract
the year wears for the taxes whnrnu the same re
delinquent. the amount of taxes due thereon nud in
arrear, the comfy counties wherein the lands lie.
and such descriptions of he local situation thereof
as the information in his Office will ennb!e him TO
make and the Auditor shall contract for the printing
Of the said lists. from lime time as soon rs they
are completed, upon sheets of convenient size. in
quarto FORM and shall cause the same 10 be cx'et
sIvely circulated throughout the Commonwealth and
in other States, and shall cause TWO hundred copies
thereof 10 be bornd, and shall send OF them 10
be deposited in the Clerks office ofcvery county and
corporation court in the commonwealth
BE it further enacted That the Auditor of Pub
lie Accounts shall this act to he published in
such OF the newspapers within this Commonwealth.
and not exceeding two such newspapers out Of this
Commonweal b., for a term not exceeding one month,
as he shall think necessary TO give notice of the pro-
visions thereof and he shall audit the accounts there.
Of tn be paid out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
z. In all controversies which Shall or may arise
touching the delinquency and forfeiture OF such lands
tor non payment OF taxes by the provisions of this
act shall be rredeemable and the vestC 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 he against
!'r person or persons IN whose name or names such
lands have been shall be returned Delinquent, his
her, or their heirs devsees, not aborng under any
disability OF infancy, coverture, insane mind impr-
sonment, evidence of such delinquency i'm resnect tn
the same and of the forfeiture thereof and of the title
vested IN the said President I'd Directors nor shall
such forfeiture, the title vested in the said Presi
dent and Directors, be impeached for any alleged
rreguiariiy in the proceedings by which such forf.
ture accrued, other than the fact that the taxes for
non payment whereof The forfeiture was imposed had
been actually paid unless the irregularty alleged
appear on the face OF the proceedings and any person
impeachIng the title SO vested in the said President
and Directors on the ground that the were not
IN arrear, shall be held to proof of the payment
thereof.
8. And whereas it is known to the General Assem-.
ply, That IN many cases. lands parts or parcels of
lands, especially such have been granted and
propriated, under the 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 unapprop rrted lands, and the SUBSEQUENT
acts on the same sublect,) which have heretofore
been, or NAV hereafter he returned denquent for
non payment OF taxes and which have been heretofore
vested by law, in the President and Directors Of the
Literary Fund, which by the provisions of this act
Shall or may hereafter be forfeited and vested in the
SAID President and Directors, held by persons other
than those tor whose defpvlt hDy have been or shall
be so forfeited. claiming bona fde, mcdately or inn
medlately, under grants from the Commonwealth; and
that the said actual holders aud bona fIe claimants
nave settled and improved the lands, 50 by them held
and claimed, and have, moreover, paid all public taxes
thcreon' due and charged justly chargeabe to
them: and it IS therefore, reasonable and lust that ,
titles OF such actual holders and bona hde claimants
Should be Quoted and perfected, far as the trans
Ter to them of the rights vested IN the said President
and Drecors-and therefore, subject to the dispusi
ton OF the General Assembly, can accomplish that
object
BE IT, therefore, further enacted, That all the right
title and interest of the said President and Directors
m or to any lands, except such shall be herein after
excepted, which have heretofore been vested by law