Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-05-03

delinquent for non payment of taxes hereafter to &C
cruc, and which shn be by force of the provisions
of this oct forfeited for TINT cause, and vested in
the SAID President and Directors n the person or
persons. IN whose name o. names such lands have
been heretofore returned delinquent, and vested IN
the said President and Directors were, at the date
Of such forfeiture declared and still rcruau, under
disability of infancy, rovcrture, insane mind or i'm
prsonment and If the person or persons IN whose |
name or names such land as shall be nccordipu TO
the provisions OF this act forfeited and vested in the
said President and Directors, have been returned
delinquent, now under any of the said disabili-
tfcs;-aud 1t the person presons, in whose rame
or names, such lands, according to the provisions
of TINS act shall may be hereafter forfeited
and vested in the said President and Directors
slal be returned delinquent shall b., OF the
date of such forfeiture under any of the said dis
abllnies-m such case, 1t shall and may be law
su for such person or persons 10 redeem such lands
by payment into the treasury, upon the warrant of
the Auditor OF oil arrears OF tn es Justly due and
cbargeable thereon with ten per centum per annum
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
afterwards and If suchperson or persons shall die
i'll any such state of disability then the heirs or de-
vsees OF such pcrSun persons dying, may in like
manner and on the like terms redeem such lands
within TWO years after the death of his, her or their
ancestor or devsor.
And, Prnrided, that nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to annul, impair any wise affect
the rights OF any purchaser or purchasers OF any
lands heretofore forfeited for non payment of taxes
and sold in pursuance of any former law; but all such
rights shall continue to be regula Cd und determined
by the former laws relating TO them, as if this act
had never been passed.
| Ii shall be the duty of the First Auditor to
Cause alphabetical lists or all the lands in the Com
monweoti,, which heretofore have been, or which
hereafter may be, returned delinquent for non nav
ment OF taxes, and which are redeemable accordmp
to the provisions of this uct to be made out; begin
ming in making such lists with the COMMITTEES lvino
AIpuhanv b,S>,.
IN manner hereinafter mentioned, the list Of lands
winch have been returned delinquent before tho pass
ing OF TINS act, so soon as the same can be made
for the purpose, and tho fist of lands which NAV
hereafter be returned delinquent between he months
OF February and May, of the wear succeeding that
IN which the Delinquency shall occur nd be eturncd
in which lists the Auditor shall specify in 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 or for the whereof the same arc
delinquent, the amount of axcs due thereon aud in
arrear the comfy or counties wherein the lands lie
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 us soon as thew
are completed, upon teets of convenient size. in
quarto form, and shall cause the same 10 be eweh
slvey circulated throughout the Commonwealth and
IN other States, and shall cause Two hundred comics
thereof TO be bound, and shall nd one of them 10
DE deposited In the Clerks ofco of every county and
3 BE II further enacted That the Auditor of Pnb
tic Accounts shall cause this act be published in
such OF the newspapers within this Commonwealth
and not exceeding two such newspapers out of this
commonwealth, for term not exceeding one month
as ne snail think necessary give notice of the nro
visions thereof and he shall audit the accounts there
or to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
T. In all controversies, which Shall or nav sr;se
touching the delinquency and forfeiture Of such lands
TOT non payment OF taxes by the provisions of THE
act are shall be rredeemable and the yestp tbera
or IN The President and Directors of the Literary Fund
the certlhcate 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 nave been or shall be returned delinunent his
ner or their heirs deviSees, iabornp 0nter anv
disability of infancy, covernre insane mini mr. mn,;
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 Pres
dent and Directors, be impeached for any alleged
rfe86arIty IN the proceedings by which such forte
ure accrued other than the fact, that the taxes for
non payment whereof. the forfeiture vas Imposed had
been actually paid, unless the rregularky alleged
appear on the face OF the proceedings and any neTson
ImPeachns the title SO vested in the said President
and Directors the ground that the taxes were mi
in arrear, shall be held TO proof OF the navmrnt
thereof. T''o''
Q. And whereas it is known to the General Assan,,
oy, mat IN many cases. lands, or parts parcels Of
ands, Especially such have been granted and an
propra'ed under the act passed at the May session
n the year one thousand seven hundred and SEVENTH
1ine, entitled an act, for establishing a Land Office
ana ascertaInng the terms and manner of granting
waste and unappoPrated lands, and the Subsequent
ac's an The same snbject,) which have heretofore
oeeh or NAV hereafter he returned deliDoi1ept for
payment OF taxes, and which have been heretofore
vested ny law, in the President and Directors oF the
Literary Fund UT which, by the provisions of this act
shai or may hereafter be forfeited and vested in The
saa PRESIDENT and Directors are held BY DersDns
nan nose tor whose dePst .hey have been or shall
De SO forfeited claiming bona fee medlatev or Inn
neuateiy, under grants from the Commonwealth. md
hat the SAID actual holders and bona fde cl,;man,s
nave settled and improved the lands so by them heJ
ana Claimed and have moreover, paid all public taTes
theFeon due and charged, or Justly charpcabJe IN
hem; and is therefore, reasonable and ius3 that the
lt'es OF such actual holders and bona fde caim.n.s
should be piieed and Perfected SO far as the
er TO them OF the rights vested the said Presiden,
ana Drectors-snd therefore, subject to the isnnsi
object. '"'p'S" t"a' |
Be IT, therefore, further euacted That all the b,
title and interest of the said President and Drecf6o
IN or TO any lands except such shall be herein
excepted, which have heretofore been vested hv i
IN the said President and Directors or which nv ,b
provisions OF this act, may hereafter be forfeited and
vestt IN the President and Directors shall and nav
oe III the manner hereinafter prescribed Transferred
70 and vested IN any and every person or persons,
other than those, for whose defaults the same havc
fhpir be;r,