Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-14


force Of the provisions of tins act forfeited for that
cause. and vested in the said President and D,rec-
tors and Of lands which shall hereafter DO returned
delinquent for non payment OF taxes hereafter to
cruc. and which shall be by irce of the provisions
If this act, forfeited for that cause. and vested in
the SAID 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 ut the dat
Of such forfeiture declared and still remain, updcr
disability of infancy. coverture, insane mind I'M
prsonmcnt, and 1t the person persons in who's
name ar names sIlch land, shall be according to
the provisions Of this forfeited and vested in the
said President and Directors, have been returned
delinquent arc now under any of the sand disabii-
'ies;-and 1t the person Or preSons, in whose name
or nsmes such lands, according 10 the provisions
"f this oct shall or may be hereafter forfeited
and vested in the said Pres.den and Directors,
shall DO retusned delinquent, shall bs at tho
date OF such f., feurn under my Of tho seia dis
abilities-in such case, it shall and may be law
u for such person or persons To redeem such lands
BY payment into the treasury, upon the warrant OF
the Auditor OF all Of taxes Justly due and
chargesb BILE thereon with ten per centum per annum
damages on the same from the time times when
the taxesaccrued, or shall accrue. thin two years
next after their respective disabilities removed, and
not afarwards and f suchperSon persons shall die
in any snch state Of disability, then tb- heirs dc
vsces OF such pcrsnn or persons dying, may in like
manner, and the like terms redeem such lands
within yea after the death Of g. her or their
ancestor devisor
And, Prouidel, that nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to annu impair any aifec,
the rights Of any purchaser purchasers OF any
lands heretofore forfeited for non payment of taxes
aad sold in pursuance of any former laws bot all such
rights shall continue to be regulated and determined
by the former laws relating TO them, if this act
had never been passed.
l. shall be the duty of the FRS: Auditor, to
Cause alphabetical lists or all the lands in the Com
mon wealth, which heretofore have been, or which
hereafter may be, returned delinquent for non pay
men, Of taxes. and which rcdsemable according
to the provisions of this act to be made b'gis
ming in making such lists with the counties lying
West OF the Allegheny Mount aims. and publishing.
III manner hereinafter mentioned, the lis; If lands
which have been returned delinquent before the plss
ing 1T this act, 81 soon the same be made on,
for the purpose, and the lis, 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 tho Auditor shall specify, IN separate
columns, the names of the persons to whom respec
lively such lands stand charged with,ths taxes the
several tracts, und the quantity Of land in each tract
the year for the whereof the same are
delinquent the amount Of taxes due thereon, and in
arrear, the comfy or counties wherein the lands lie.
and such descriptions of hs local situation thereof
as the Information in his office will enable him to
make; and the Auditor shall contract for the printing
OF the SAID lists. from time TO Time they
ere completed, upon ST Gets Of convenient sizn. in
quarto form, and shall the same TO be exter.
nvely circulated throughout the Common wealth and
In other States, aud shall cause two hundred comics
thereof to be bound, and shall send Of them to
be deposited in the Clerks office of every county and
corporation court in the commonwealth.
Be II further enacted, That tho Auditor of Pub
lie Accounts shall this 10 be published in
such OF the newspaperN within this Commonwealth,
nnd not exceeding two such newspapers out OF this
Commonwealth, for term not exceeding ono month
as he shall think necessary 10 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.
= In all controversies Which shall or may ariss
tuuehips the delinquency ard forfeiture OF such lands
for non payment OF taxes by the provisions of this
act arc shall be rredeemabie and the vesu there
OF IN the President and Directors Of the Literary Fond
the certificate fof the Audior Of Public Accounts oP
sneh delinquency and forfeiture. shall be against
the person or persons in whose anne names snch
lands have been shall be returned delinquen, his
her or their heirs or devsres not aborng under any
disability OF infancy, coverture, insane mind impri-
sDnmen, evidence of snch delinquency in respect TO
the Ce. and Of the forfeiture thereof and Of the title
vested in the said President I'd Directors nor shall
snch forfeiture, or the title vested in the said Prcs
dent and Directors, be impeached for any alleged
in the proceedings by which such forfe
ture accrued, other than the fact, that the taxes for
non payment whereof the forfeiture was impused had
been actually paid, unless the irreguiari;y alleged
appear the face Of the proceedings and any
impeachB6 the title vested in tie said President
and Directors on the ground that the taxes were not
in arrear, shall be held to proof of tho payment
thereof.
8. And whereas it is known to the General Assem-.
bly,, That in many cases. ands parts, parcels of
lands Especially such have been granted and sp-
propriated under the passed at the Hay session
in the year thousand seven hundred and seventy
nine, entitled act, for establishing Land Office,
and ascertainng the terms and manner Of granting
waste and unapproprated lands, and the subseauen,
acts on the same subJect,) which have heretofore
been, or NAV hereafter be returued delnouent for
non payment Of taxes and which have been heretofore
vested by Law, in the Presdon, and Directors of the
Literary Fund.- or which. by the provisions of this act
shall may hereafter be forfeited and vested in the
said President sod Directors held by pr rsons
than those for whose defSult !bry have been or shall
be so forfeited claiming bona fde, medately or i'm.
medately, under grants from the Common wealth; and
that the said actual holders and bona de claimants
have settled and improved the lands. by them held
and claimed and have, moreover, paid all public taxes
thereon, due and charged. or justly chargeable to
then: and IS therefore, reasonable and just that the
titles OF such actual holders and bona fde ciama nts
should be quisted and perfected, far as the trans
fer to them OF the rights vested in the said President
and prectors-and. therefore, subject To the d,pos
ton Of the General Assembly. can accomplish tha,
object
Re IL therefore further euacted Tho, all ,h. .;uh,