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cause. and vested in the said Psssi.eat and L.ss..

OF inns act. forfeited for that cause. and vested I'm
the SAID President ani ID rpctors # the lerson or
persons, IN whose name or names such lands have
oesn heretofore returned delinquent and vested IN
ne saiu fTesdent and Directors. were, at The date
OF such forfeiture declared md still remain, under
disability OF infancy. covefture, insane m nd or IN
prisonmcnt. and If the person or persons IN vb,so
name or names such land az shall be ACCORDING To
The provisions Of this act forfeited and vested IN HE
I sara president and Directors, have been returned
u''uhquen, He now under any of the said dsa bill
ucs;-anc It the person or presons. in whose ramc
or names such lands. according TO the pro vsions
/ OF this act shall may be hereafter forfeited
and vested 10 the said Pres:Gen and Directors
shaA be returned delinquent, shall be at the
date OF such forfeiture under any OF the safd DIS
ahiIl'ies--n such case, II shall and NAV be law
u i"T Such person or persons To redeem such lands
by payment into the treasury upon the warrant of
inc Auc:t0r OF all arrears Of taxes Justly due and
chargcah bic thereon with rer csutnm per annum
damages on tho same from he time or times when
the taxes accrued, or shall accrue within two years
next after their respective disabilities removed and
DOT ierwar and It suchperson or persons shall die
in any such state Of disability then the heirs or do
Vse"s OF such person persons so diving NAV in Ike
manner, and on the like terms redeem such lands
Within TWO years alter the death of g, her or their
ancestor or dcysor
An3, Preceded, that nothing in this act contained
shall De construed to annu impair or any wise affect
tho rights Of purchaser or purchasers of anv
ands heretofore forfeited TOR payment OF taxes,
ara sold IN pursuance of any former law but all such
rights shall continue to be regulated and determined
oy the former laws relating 10 them as if this act
had never brcn passed.
l. shall be the duty of the First Auditor. 20
c'use alphabetical lists OF all the lands in the Com
monwealth, which heretofore have been. or which
hereafter may DC, returned delinquent for non pay
men OF taxes. and which are rcdeema BILE ACCORDING
TO the provisions of this oct to be made out: begin
nIng IN making Ou such lists, with the Counties living
West OF the Allegheny Mountains, and publishing.
In manner hereinafter mentioned. the list Of LANDS
which have been returned delinquent before tire pass
Ing 81 TINS act. tho ho ia o,,,
for the purpose, and the list of lands which NAV
hereafter be returned delinquent, between he months
OF February and May. Of the year succeeding that
IN which the delinquency shall occur and be returned:
III which lists the Auditor shall specify m separate
columns. the names of the persons to whom respec-
lively such lands stand charged wth.the taxes the
several tracts, and the quantity of land in each tract
the year or years tor the taxes 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 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 time, as coon as they
are completed, upon sheets of convenient size. in
quarto form, and shall cause the same TO be exteh-
sveiy circulated throughout the Commonwealth, and
IN other States, and shall cause two hundred copies
thereof &c be bound, and shall send ono Of them to
be deposited in the Clerks office ofeverv county and
corporation court in the commonwealth.
Be itfurther ed That The Auditor OF Pub.
iic Accounts shall cause this 10 he published u
such Of the newspapers within this Commonwealth,
and not exceeding two such newspapers out of this
Commonweal h, for t. not exceeding one month
as he sha! think necessary to give notice of the pro-
visions thereof and he shall audit tn accounts there
of, to be paid Of any money in the Treasury noe
otherwise appropriated.
2. In all controversies, which shall OF may arise
touching the delinquency and forfeiture Of such lands
tor non payment OF taxes by the provisions of this
act shall bc TredeemsSle and the vesti,p 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 delinquent his
her, their hers devseeS, labornp under any
disability OF infancy, coverture, mind or mpri-
sonment, evidence of such delinquency in respect 10
the same, and of the forfeiture thereof and of the tale
vested IN the said President I'd Directors nor shall
such forfeiture, or the title vested in the said Presi
dent and Directors, be mpeached for any alleged
irregulaTiy IN the proceedings by which such forfeit
tur accrued other than the fact that the taxes for
non payment whereof the forfeiture was imposed had
been actually paid, unless the irregularty alleged.
appear on the face of the proceedings and any person
impeachins the title vested in the said President
and Directors the ground that the taxes were not
in arrear, shall be held TO proof of the payment
thereof.
8. And whereas it is known to the General Assem-
bly, That in many lands, parts or parcels Of
lands, Especially such have been granted and nm
propTated under the act passed at the May session
in the year thousand seven hundred and s.yen,,
nine, entitled an act, for establishing a Land Office
and ascerianing the terms and manner of granting
waste and unaPProPriated lands and the SUBSEQUENT
2Cts on Tue same suo1ect,) which have heretofore
been, or NAV hereafter be returned delinu,lent fov
non payment OF taxes, and which have heretofore
vested by law, in the President and Directors of the
Literary Funi or which by the provisions of this act
shall may hereafter be forfeited and vested in the
said President and Directors held by persons other
than those tor whose def?ut !hy have been or shall
be so forfeited, claiming bona fide mediaev or i'm
mediately under grants from the Commonwealth 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
them; and 1t is therefore reasonable and iis that the
titles OF such actua holders and bona fie claimants
should be quoted and perfected SO far as the trans
fer to them Of the rights vested in the said President
and Directors-and, therefore, subject tn the dspos
object
BE it, therefore, further enacted, That all the right
title and interest OF the said President and Directors
IN or 70 any ands except such shall be herein aer
excepted, which have heretofore been vested BY law
in the said President and Directors, or whss by the
provisions OF tins act may hereafter be forfeited and
yeStt q ia the President and .L.t-