Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-05-10

SSuse. anu vested IN the said prcslUent lnfcC-
tors, and OF lands which shall hereafter be returned
delinquent for paymen; OF taxes hereafter to
crnc, and which shall be by furce of the provisions
of this act. forfeited for that cause and vested i'll
the said President and Dlrecturs if the person or
persons, IN whose name names such lands have
been heretofore returned delinquent and vested III
the said President and Directors were n, the date
of such forfeiture declared and still remain, under
disability OF infancy, coverture, insane mind or i'm
prsonuient and 1t tire person or persons in whose
name names such land, as shall be according to
the provisions Of this act forfeited and vested III the
said President and Directors have been returned
delinquent are now under any of the said disablli
ties;-and IT the person prcsons, IN whose rame
nsutrs, such lands, according to the provisions
of this act sholl may 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
abilities in such case, it shall and may be law
tu for such person persons 10 redeem such lands,
by payment into the treasury, upon the of
the Auditor OF all arrears of taxes Justly due and
chargeable thereon with ten per centum per annum
damages OH the same from the time times when
the taxes accrued shall accrue, within two years
next after their respective disabilities removed and
not afterwards; and If suchperspn persons shall die
in any such state of disability then the heirs or de
Vlsees OF such person persons dying may in like
manner, and OH the like terms redeem such lands
within two years otter the death of his, her their
ancestor devisor.
And, Prorided, that nothing in this act contained
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 TO them, if this act
had never been passed
1t shall be the duty of The First Auditor to
cause alphabetical lists OF all the lands in the Com
monweaith, which heretofore have been, which
hereafter may be, returned delinquent for pay
menl of taxes, and which redeemabe according
to the provisions OF this act, tn be made out; begin
ming in making such lists with the Counties lying
West of the Allegheny Mountains, and publishing,
IN manner hereinafter mentioned, the list Of Ian As
which have been returned delinquent before the pass
ing OF this act, as the can be made out
for the purpose, and the list of lands which may
hereafter be returned delinquent between be months
of February and May, of the year succeeding that
in which the delinquency shall and be returned:
in which lists the Auditor shall specify, II separate
columns, the names of the persons to whom rcspec-
lively such lands stand charged with the taxes, the
several tracts, and the quantity of land in each tract
the year for the taxes whereof the same re
delinquent the amount of taxes due thereon, aud in
arrear the comfy counties wherein the lands lie.
and such descriptions of he local situation thereof
rs the information in hrs office will enube him To
make and the Auditor shall contract for the printing
of the said lists from time to time, they
are completed, upon sheets of convenient size, in
quarto form, and shall the TO be ex,cr.
sveiy circulated throughout the Commonwealth and
IN other States, and shall cause Two hundred copies
be deposited in the Clerks office of every county and
court in the commonwealth.
BE it fhrther enacted, That the Auditor of Pub |
lie Accounts shall cause this act TO be published in
such of the newspapers within this Commonwealth |
and not exceeding two such newspapers of this
Commonwealth, for q term not exceeding one month,
he sha think necessary to give oil 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 shah OF MAY Arise
touching the delinquency and forfeiture OF such lands
for payment of taxes by the provisions of this
act are or shall be redeemable and the vesg there
of In the President and Directors of the Literary Fund
the certificate of the Auditor of Public Accounts of
sAch delinquency and forfeiture, shall be against
the person or persons in whose name names such
lands have been shall be returned delinquent, his
her, or their heirs devisees, not abong under any
disability OF Infancy, coverture, mind impri-
sonment, evidence of such delinquency in respect to
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 mpeached for any ALLEGED
rreguiaty in the proceedings by which such forfeit
ture accrued, other than the fact that the taxes for
non payment whereof, the forfeiture was imposed had
been actually paid, unless the irreguiarEy alleged
appear ON the face of the proceedings and any persun
impeachHS the little so vested in the said President
and Directors the ground THAT the taxes were NOT
IN arrear, shall be kefd TO prouf Of the payment
thereof,
8. And whereas It Is known to The general Aszrm.
bly, That IN many cases, lands paris or parcels of
iands Especially such have been granted and an
propriated, under the passed the Nav session
IN the year one thousand hundred and seyentv
nine, entitled IN act for establishing Land Office
and ascertainng the terms and manner of prant;ne,
waste and unapproprated lands, and the Subsequent
vets on the same subleCt,) which have heretofore
been, or NAV hereafter lie returned denouent for
non payment u 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 persns other
than those for whose defsa1t they have BEEN or shall
be SD forfeited claiming bona ite rnedately or inn
Eediatefy, under grants from the Commonwealth. and
that the said actual holders and bona de claimants
have settled and improved the lands so by them held
and claimed and have, moreover, paid all public taxes
thereon due and charged, or justly chargeable to
them and 1t 10 therefore, reasonable and lust that f
titles Of such actual holders and bona hde claimants
should be quoted and perfected, so far as the trans
fer to them of the rights vested in the said President
and Drectore-and therefore, subject to the dispos
ton of the General Assembly Can accomplish riIat
object.
Be it, therefore, further enacted That all the right
title and interest Of the said President and Directors
in to any lands except such shall be herein after
excepted, which have heretofore been vested by law
in the said President and Directors which, by the