Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-05-12

Inc said President aud Directors; II the person or Y
persons, IN whose name Or names such lands have !
been heretofore returned delinquent, und vested IN
The said President and Directors, were, at the date
OF such forfeiture declared and still remain, under
OF infancy, coverture, Insane mind or sm-
prisonmcnt, and IT the person or persons IN whose
name or names such land, as shall DO according to
he provisions of this act forfeited and vested IN the
said President and Directors, have been returned
delinquent, arc now under any of the said dk"bili-
t,cs;-aud 1t the person or prcsons, IN whose rame
or names, such lands, as according to the PROVISIONS
of this act shall or may be hereafter forfeited
and vested III the said President and Directors.
shall b. returned delinquent, shall be at the
date of such forfeiture under any OF the said dis
aoilities-in such case, i. shall and may be Jaw
iul for such person or persons to redeem such lands,
by payment into the treasury, upon the warrant oil
the Auditor Of all arrears Of tuNes Justly due aud
chargcable thereon with ten per centum per anuum
damages on the same from the time or times when
the taxes accrued, or shall accrue, within two years
next after their respective disabilities removed, and
not afterwards; and If suchperson or persons shall die
in any such state of disability. then the heirs or de-
Visees OF such person or persons SO dying, may IN like
manner, and OH the like terms redeem such lands
within two years after the death OF his, her or their
ancestor or devisor.
And, Pr0riled, that nothing i'll this act contained
shall be construed to annul, impair or ans wise atlcct
the rights of any purchaser or purchasers OF any
lands heretofore forfeited tor non payment of taxes.
ard sold IN pursuance OF any former law; but all such
rights shall continue tn be regulated and determined
by the former laws relating 10 them, as il this act
had never been passed.
5 II shall be the duty Of the First Auditor, to
cause alphabetical lists or all the lands in the Com
monweulth, which heretofore have been, ar which
hereafter may be, returned delinquent for non pay
ment of taxes, and which are redeemsl,e according
10 the provisions of this act, TO be made out; begin
ning in making out such lists, with the counties lying
West Of the Allegheny Mountains, aud publishing,
in manner hereinafter mentioned, the list Of lanss
which have been returned delinquent before tire pass
ing Of this act, so soon rs the same can be made out
for the purpose, and the list OF lands which may
hereafter be returned delinquent, between The months
of February and May, Of The year succeeding that
in which the delinquency shall occur aud be returned:
in which lists the Auditor shall specify, IN separate
columns, the names OF tic persons To whom rcspec-
lively such lands stand charged wIth.thc taxes, the
several tracts, and the quantity of land in each tract,
the year or years for the taxes whereof the same are
delinquent, the amount of taxes due thereon. aud in
arrear, the comfy or counties wherein the lands lie.
and such descriptions Of he lncal 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, as soon as they
are completed, upon sheets of convenient size, in
quarto form, and shall cause the same 10 be eXtei.
sively circulated throughout the Commonwealth, and
in other States, and shall cause TWO hundred copies
thereof TO be bound, and shall send one Of them 10
be deposited in the Clerks office ofevery county and
corporation court III the commonwealth.
6 Be it further enacted, That the Auditor of Pub
lie Accounts shall cause this act 10 he published in
such OF the newspapers within this Commonwealth,
and not exceeding two such newspapers out of this
Commonwealth, 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, to be paid out OF any money in the Treasury not
otherwise Appropriated.
z. In all controversies, which shall UT may arise
touching the delinquency and forfeiture oil such lands
for non payment of taxes as by the provisions of this
act are or shall be irredeemsble and the vestiig 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 agains,
the person or persons in whose name or names such
lands have been or shall be returned delinouent, his, I
her, or their heirs or devisces, not laboring under any
disability OF infancy, coverture, insane mind or 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 nd Directors, nor shall
such forfeiture, or the title vested in the said Presi
dent and Directors, be impeached for any alleged
irregularity in the proceedings by which such forfei-
ture accrued, other than the fact, that the taxes, for
non payment whereof, the forfeiture was imposed, had |
been actually paid, unless the irregulari;y alleged,
appear on the face of the proceedings; and any person
ImpeachinS the title SO vested in the said President (
and Directors on the ground that the taxes were no,
in arrear, shall be held to proof Of the payment
thereof.
8. And whereas it is known to the General Assem-.
ply, That III many cases, lands, or parts. or parcels of
lands, Especially such as have been granted and an
proprated, under the act passed at the May session,
III the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy.
nine, entitled an act, for establishing a Land Office. |
and ascertaining the terms and manner Of granting
waste and inappropriate lands, and the SUBSEQUENT
acts on the same subJect,) which have heretofore |
been, or ma, hereafter tie returned delinauent, 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 ac,
si,ah or may hereafter be forfeited and vested, in tho
sad President and Directors, are held by persons other
,'lan thoss for whose dei9slt .hcy have been, or shall
De so forfeited, claiming bona fde, medjately or i'm
medIately, unde' grants from the Commonwealth: and
tnat me Sa'd ac,uaI holders and bona fde claimants,
have settled and Inprtved The lands, so by them held
and claimed, and have, me~coyer. paid all nuhIic ,a,es
thereon, due and charged, pr Justly cbargeabIe to
them: and 1t is therefore, reasonable and lust. tha, the
titles OF such actual holders and bl1a fde claimants
should be quoted and perfected, so I.- as the trans
fer to them Of the rights vested in the saII ptes;Icn,
and D~irectors-snd. therefore, subject to the dispos;
ton of the General Assembly. can accomplish tina,
object.
BE il, therefore, further enacted, That all the right,
title and interest Of the said President and Directors,
in or to any lands, except such as shall be herein after
excepted, which have heretofore been vested by law
in the said President and Directors, or which, by the
provisions of this act, may hereafter be forfeited and
vested in the President and Directors, shall and may
be, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, transferred
to and vested in any and every person or persons,