Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-19

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crue, and which shall be by force Of the provisions
nj this act forfeited for that cause and vested i'm
the said President aud Directors; IL the person or
persons IN whose name or names such lands have
been heretofore returned delinquent, and vested IN
the said President and Directors were, ut the date
Of such forfeiture declared and still remain, under |
disability of infancy. covcr'ure insane mind or :m-
prisonmcnt, and Il the person persons in whose
name or names such land, shall be according to
he provisions Of this act forfeited and vested ~ the
said President aud Directors, have been returned
delinquent. are now under ct the SAID disab'l,-
tcS;-and II the person or prcsdns, in whose name
or names, such lands according to the provisions
at TINS act shall may be hereafter forfeited
and vested in the said Pres:den' and Directors.
shall hc returned delinquent, shall be at the
date of such forfeiture under my Of the said dis
abilties-in such case, II shall and may be law
fu for such person persons 10 redeem such lands
by payment into the treasury. upon the warrant OF
the Auditor OF oil arrears Of taxes Justly due and
chnrgeabe thereon with ten per centum per annum
damages on the same from the time or times when
the accrued. shall accrue. within two
next after their respective disabilities removed, and
not afterwards; aud It suchpcrSon persons shall die
in any such state of disability then the heirs or dc
riSecs 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 o dcvisor.
And, Prorided, that nothing in this act conta med
shall be construed to annu impair or any wise affect
the rights Of any purchaser or purchasers OF any
lands heretofore forfeited for payment of taxes,
ard sold in pursuance of any former law but all such
rights shall continue to be regulated and determined
by the former laws relating them, if this act
had never been passed.
l. shall be the duty of the First Auditor, to
c'use alphabetical lists OF all the lands in the Com
monwealth. which heretofore have been, or which
hereafter may be, returned delinquent for pay.
ment of taxes, and which redeemable according
To The provisions of this act to be made out; begin
ming in king such lists, with the counties lying
West OF the Allegheny Mount aims and publishing,
IN manner hereinafter mentioned, the list nj LANDS
which have been returned delinquent before TIE pass
ing of this act, as the same be made out
for the purpose, and the list of lands which may
hereafter be returned delinquent between h. months
of February and May. Of the year succeeding that
IN which the delinquency shall occur aud be returned:
III which lists the Auditor shall specify, IN separate
columns. the names of the persons to whom rcspec-
lively such lands stand charged wtb.the taxes, tho
several tracts and the quantity of land in each tract,
the year years for the taxes whereof the same
delinquent, the amount of taxes due thereon and in
arrear the comfy counties wherein the lands lie
and such descriptions of he local situation thereof
as the information in his Office will enable him to
make and the Auditor shall for the printing
OF the said lists, from time to time, soon as they
are completed, upon sheets of convenient size. in
quarto torn and shall cause the 10 be exter.-
slvey circulated throughout the Commonwealth and
IN other States. and shall hundred copies
thereof TO be bound and shall send one of them TO
be deposited in the Clerks office of every county and
BE it further enacted, That the Auditor of Pub
lie Accounts shall cause this 10 be published in
such of the newspapers within this Commonwealth
and not exceeding two such newspapers out of this
Commonwealth, for a term not exceeding month,
as he shall think necessary To give notice of the pro-
visions thereof; and he shall audit the accounts there
Of to 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 rredee and the vestis 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 be AS against
the person or persons in whose anne or names such
lands have been or shall be returned delinouen, his
her, their heirs deysees, not abornp under anv
disability OF infancy, coverture, insane mind or npr
sonment, evidence of such delinquency in respect to
the and of the forfeiture thereof and of the title
vested IN the said President I'D Directors, shall
such forfeiture, or the title vested in the said Pres
dent and Directors, be mpeached for any alleged
Irregularity in the proceedings by which such forfe
ture accrued other than the fact that the taxes for
non payment whereof, the forfeiture i'm posed had
been actually paid, unless the irregulari;y alleged
appear on the face of the proceedings and anv person
'mpeach'ns the title so vested in the said Preside mt
and Directors the ground that the taxes were moi
IN arrear, shall be held to proof of the payment
thereof
8. And whereas it is known to the General Assem-.
bly,, That IN many Cases. lands, parts or parcels of
lands, le'peealy such have been granted and an
pToPrated, under the 90 passed at the Nav ss,sr
in the year one Thousand seven hunl.-a md snon,
nine, entitled an act, for establishing Lana Or.
and aocertaining the terms and manner Of granting
waste and unapproPriated lands and the subsequent
acts on the same subJect,) which have heretofore
been, or NAV hereafter be returned delinquent for
non payment Of taxes, and which have been heretofore
vested by law, in the President and Directors of the
Literary Fund.- or which, by the provisions of This act
shall or may hereafter be forfeited and vested in Tia
sad President and Directors held by persons other
than those for whose default .hcy have Deen or shall
be forfeited claiming bona fide meti,teIv or i'm
medately, under grants from the Commonwealth and
that the said actual holders and bona ide claimants
have settled and improved the lands. by them held
and claimed, and have, moreover, paid all public a1es
thereon, due and charged, Justly chargeable to
them and It IS therefore, reasonable and Is that the
titles OF such actual holders and bona fde claimants
should be quoted and perfected, far as the trans
fer to them of the rights vested in the said Presden,
and Drectorssnd, therefore, subject to the dsposi.
ton of the General Assembly, can accomplish that
object.
Be il, therefore, further enacted That all the right
title and interest of the said President and Directors
to any lands, except such shall be herein after
excepted, Which have heretofore been vested by law
in the said President and Directors or which by the
of this art he