Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-04-05

1lpTCUTtCT
delinquent ioT non payment of taxes hereafter to nc,
cruc, and which shall be by force of the provisions
OF tins act, forfeited for that cause, and vested in
me sad President and Director; # The person or
persons, IN whose or names such lands have
been heretofore returned delinquent, and vested IN
the said President and Directors were u; the date
OF such forfeiture declared and still remain under
dsaoli'ty OF infancy, coverture, insane mind or :m-
prisonmcnt, aud 1t the person persons I'm whose
name or names such land, US shall be according to
The provisions OF this act forfeited and vested in the
said President and Directors, have been returned
dlnquent, are now under any of the said dispb bill
ues;-ami II The person or presons, in whose rame
or nsnes, such lands, according to tho provisions,
OF this act shall may be hereafter for
and vested i'll tho said Prcs:den, and Directors
snail be returned delinquent, shall be at the
date OF such forfeiture under any of the said dis
aDhl,ies-ln such case, it shall and may he law
mi for such person persons TO redeem such lands
by payment mi" the treasury, npon the warrant of
the Auditor OF all of taxes Justly due and
chargeab!e-thereon with ten per ccnturn per amman
damages on the same from the time or times when
the taxes accrued, shall accrue within two wears
next after their respective disabilities removed and
not afterwads and If suchperson persons shall die
In any such state of disability, then the heirs or dc
Visces OF such person persons dying may in like
manner, and on the like terms redeem such lands
within two yea after the dcuth of his her or their
ancestor devs0r.
and, PROVIDED, that nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to annu impair any wise affect
inc ris'ts OF any purchaser purchasers of any
iands heretofore forfeited Tor payment of taxes,
ard sold IN pursuance of any former laws but all such
rights shah continue to be regulate and determined
by the former laws relating to them, as if this act
mad never been passed.
l. shall be the duty Of the First Auditor, to
cause alphabetical lists or all the lands in the Com
inon"eelth, which heretofore have been, or which
hereafter may be-, returned delinquent for non paw
men OF taxes, and which redeemable according
TO the provisions OF this uct, to be made OUT begin
nlng IN making out slch lists, with the counties lying
81 nf fhn l,,r
In manner hereinafter mentioned, the list of LANDS
which have been returned delinquent before the pass
ing oil this act, so suon as the be made out
Tor the purpose, and the list of lands which NAV
hereafter be returned delinquent, between he months
OF February and May, OF the year succeeding tnat
IN which the delinquency shall occur and be returnct
IN which lists the Auditor shall specify, IN separate
columns, the names OF the persons to whom respcc
lively such lands stand charged wththe taxes, the
several tracts, and the quantity of land in each tract
the year or years for the taxes whereof the same
delinquent the amount of taxes due thereon, aud i'm
arrear, the comfy counties wherein the lands le
and such descriptions of he 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, as they
are completed, upon stcets of convenient size, in
qnarto form, and shall cause the same 10 be extch.
sively circulated throughout the Commonw ealth and
IN other States and shall cause 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 act te be published in
such of the newspapers within this Commonwealth
and not exceeding two such newspapers out of this
Commonweal h, for term not exceeding one month";
as he shall think necessary give of the pro-
visions thereof and he shall audit the accounts there
Of to be paid of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
2. In an controversies which shah OF NAV akfse
touching the delinquency and forfeiture oil such lands
LOT non payment OF taxes as by the provisions of this
act are shall be rredeemabe and the vestg 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 name names such
lands have been OF shall be returned DELINQUENT his
ner or their heirs or dev?sees, not labdring under any
disability at infancy, coverture, insane mind or impri-
sonmsnt, evidence of such delinquency in respect tn
the same, and of the forfeiture thereof and of the title
vested IN the said President I'd Directors nor sbal
such forfeiture, or the title vested in the said Pres
dent aud Directors, be impeached foP any ALLEGED
iFregutarty IN the proceedings by which such forfr
ture accrued other than the fact that the taxes for
non payment whereof. the forfeiture was imposed had
been actually paid, unless the rreguarky alleged.
appear on the lace OF the proceedings; and any persnn
impeachnS the title so vested in the said President
and Directors the ground tirat The taxes were mt
IN arFear, shatl be held TO proof Of the payment
EhereoF,s
8. And wheseas it Is known to the General Assrn.
bly, That in many cases, hands, or parts or parces ne
lands, Especially auch have been granted and an
propriated, under the act passed the Nav session
- VIZ 80. o,'o "ouSauu seven hundred and seventy
bme' ehtitiea an act, far establishing Land Office
and ascertaning the terms and manner of crantinr
Waste and unaPpro2rated lands, and the subsequent
acts on the same subJcc) which have heretofore
oesn' OF NAV hereafter he returned delinouent for
non payment ct taxes and which ave been heretofore
vested by law IN tine President and Directors of the
Literary kunj or which, by the provisions of this act
Shai or may hereafter be forfeited and vested in the
SAID President and Directors ire held bv oter
than those fnr whose def3Hlt bcy have been or sha
De SO forfeited Claiming bona de, mediateiy or i'm.
medialey, under grants from the Commonwealth; and
.nat me sad actual holders and bona le claimants
have settled and improved the lands SO by them heL
ana claimed, and have, moreover, paid all public taxes
tthereon' due and charged justly chargcabe to
.nS" ana II ID therefore, reasonable and gst that The
titles of such actual holders and bona fde cISmon,s
should be quoted and perfected, far as the trans
Ter TO them OF the rights vested in the said President
ana Drectors-and therefore, subject the DISPOSE.
object. '
BE it, therefore, further enacted That all lie rih.