Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-27
cause and vested in ,Le said Presiaent and Drce-


cruc and which shall be by frrce ofthe provisions
Of thus act. forfeited for that cause, aud vested in
The said President aud Directors; II the person or
persons, IN whose name or names such lands have
been heretofore returned delinquent, and vested
the said President and Directors, were, at the date
OF such forfeiture declared and still remain under
disability of infancy. covcrture, insane mind m-
prsonmcnt, and n the person or persons IN whose
name or names such land, shall be according TO
the provisions of this forfeited and vested in the
said President and Directors, have been returned
delinquent. are now under of the sa'd dissbll-
tics;-and If the person or presons, III whose ralnc
names, such lands according To the provisions
of this act shall may be hereafter forfeited
and vested in the said President and Directors.
shall he returned delinquent, shall be at the
date of such forfeiture under any of the said dis
sbiIIes-in such case, II shall aud may be law
FIJI for such person persons redeem such lands,
by payment into tho treasury upon the warrant of
the Auditor OF all. arrears of taxes justly due and
chargeable thereon with ten per centum per annum
damages on the same from the time times when
the taxes accrued, shall within two years
next after their respective disabilities removed and
not afterwards; and # suchperson persons shall die
in any such state of disability. then the heirs de-
vsecs 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 dcvisor.
And, Prorided that nothing in this act cont aimed
shall be construed To annul, impair any affect
the rights of any purchaser purchasers of any
lands heretofore forfeited for non nyment 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.
IL sha be the duty Of the First Auditor to
cause alphabetical lists OF all the lands in the Com
monweplth, which heretofore have BEEN which
hereafter may be, returned delinquent for pay
ment of taxes, and which nre redecmabe according
to the provisions OF this act, to- be made out begin
ming in ma krg nut such ss, with the counties lying
West OF the Allegheny Mountains, and publishing,
IN manner hereinafter mentioned, the list at lanes
winch have been returned delinquent before tire pass
ing of this act, the same can be made
for the purpose and The list of lands which may
hereafter be returned d, nqupnt between he months
OF February and May Of the year succeeding that
in which the delinquency shall occur md be eturncd
in which lists the Auditor shall spccify m separate
columns, the names OF the persons To- whom respcc-
lively such lands stand charged with'the taxes the
several tracts, and the quantity of land in each tract
the year or wears for the taxes whereof the
delinquent, the amount sc taxes due thereon and in
arrear, the comfy or counties wherein the lands he
and such descriptions Of he local situation thereof
as the information in his Office will enable him to
MIKE; and the Auditor shall for the printing
of the said lists from time time IA soon rs thew
are completed, upon sheets Of convenient size. in
quarto form, and shall cause the same TO be cx,er
slvey crculnte cd throughout the Commonwealth and
IN other States, and shall cause two hundred COMES
thereof TO BE- bound, and shall send one of them 10
be deposited in the Clerks office ofevery county and
corporation court IN the commonwealth.
! 6 BE 1t further enacted That the Auditor OF Pub
lie Accounts shall this act 10 be published in
such OF the newspapers within this Commonwc alth
and not exceeding two s6ch newspapers out of this
Commonwealth, for term not exceeding one month
as he shall think necessary to give of the pro-
visions thereof and he shall audit the accounts there
Of to be paid cut Of any money in the Treas,Iry no,
otherwise appropriated.
z. In all controversies, which shall or NAV arise
touching the delinquency and forfeiture OF such lands
for payment OF taxes as by the provisions of this
act are shall DE irredeemabe and the yes 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 or names such
lands have been or shall be returned delinouen his
her or ther heirs or devsees not laborng under any
disability of infancy, coverture insane mind or imnr
sonmen evidence of such delinquency in respect to
the same, and Of the forfeiture thereof and of
vested IN the said President I'd Directors nor shall
snch forfeiture, or the title vested in the said Pres
dent ana Directors, be impeached for any alleged
rreglarliy IN the proceedings by which such forfeit
ure accrued, other than the fact that the taxes 70,
non pay ment whereof The forfeiture imposed had
been actually paid unless the irregulariiy alleged
appear on the face of the proceedings and any
lmpeachinE the title vested in the said President
and Directors on the ground that the taxes were no,
in arrear, shall be held to proof OF the naynnn,
thereof.
o. And whereas it Is known to the General Assem-
bly,, That IN many cases. lands parts or parcels n,
lands (especaliy such as have been granted and ap-
proprated under the act passed the Nav session
in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventh
nine, entitled act, for establishing Land OFF.
and ascertainng the terms and manner Of granting
waste and unsPproPra,ed lands, and the SUBSEQUENT
acts on the same subJcc,) which have heretofore
been, or NAV hereafter be returned deInou.o, TO-
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 ac,
shall or may hereafter be forfeited and vested in The
sad President and Directors held by persons other
Than those for whose defsslt .hey have been or shall
be so forfeited claiming bona fide mediateiv or inn
mehIatey, under grants from the CommonwcaI and
That the said actual holders and bona fde climan,s
have settled and improved the lands so by them held
ana claimed, and have moreover paid all public taxes
,nereon, Que and charged, or justly chargeable to
them: and it is therefore reasonsb Bile and ius1 st the
titles OF such actual holders and bona fde claimants,
should be quoted and perfected, so far AS the trans
fer TO them Of the rights vested in the said presJen
and D,'ectors-and therefore, subject to the dspos
object. ''" ''A
BE IT, therefore further enacted Tia, all the right
title and interest OF the SAID President and Dr.eto,
in or to any lands, except such as shall be herein TO-
excepted winch have heretofore been vested by law
10 lhe SAID Presden; and Directors or which bv The
provisions OF tins he -