Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-04-15

tors, and of lands which shall hereafter be returned
delinquent for payment OF taxes hereafter to
cruc, and which shall be by force of the provisions
OF this act forfeited for that cause, and vese IN
the said President and Directors; if the person or
persons, whose name or names such lands have
been heretofore returned delinquent and vested IN
the said President and Directors, WERE at the dat
of such forfeiture declared and still remain, under
disability of infancy coverture, insane mind or mn
prisonplent, and If the person or persons whose
name or names such land, shall be according to
the provisions ofthis act forfeited and vested the
said President and Directors, have been returned
delinquent, under any of the said disabili-
tics;-ani if the person or presons, in whose pame
or names, such lands, according the provisions
of this act shall may be hereafter forfeited
and vested III the laid Pres!denr and Directors.
shall be returned delinquent, shall be at the
date of such forfeiture under any of the said dis
! abties-in such case, it shall and NAV be law
ul for such person persons to redeem such lands,
by payment into the treasury, upon The warrant of
the Auditor OF all of taxes Justly due and
chargeabIe thereon with ten per centum per annum
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
vlsces OF such person or persons dying, may in like
manner and on the like terms redeem such lands
within two years after the death of his her their
ancestor or devisor
| and, Provided, tina: nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to annu, impair any wise affect
the rights of any purchaser or purchasers of any
lands heretofore forfeited for payment of taxes
AVID 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.
l. shall be tho duty Of the First Auditor to
cause alphabetical lists OF all the lands 10 the Com
mon wcalth. which here ofnrc have been, or which
hereafter may be, returned delinquent for non pay.
men, OF taxes. and which are redaemabe according
'othe provisions OF this act, to be made ou b"gip
ming in making out such lists, with the counties lying
West OF the Allegheny bfonnai aims nl,l PUBLISHING
III manner hereinafter mentioned, tie list q: Ian IS
which have been returned delinquent before tire pass
ing OF this 2ct, soon the same can be made out
for tie purpose, and the list of lands which may
hereafter be returned delinquent between he months
of February and May of the year succeeding that
IN which tie delinquency shall occur and be roturned
IN which lists the Auditor shu specify, IN separate
Columns, the names of the parsons 10 whom respec-
lively such Innds stand charged with'the taxes the
several tracts, and the quantity of land in each tract
the year for the taxes whereof the same are
delinquent, the amount of taxes duo thereon aud in
arrear, the comfy counties wherein the lands lie
and such desc ptions of he local situation thereof
rs the information in his Office will enable him to
Ike; and the Auditor shall contract for the nrBtinU
OF the said lists from time to time, they
are Completed, upon sheets of convenient size in
Giarto form, and shall cause the same TO be cx3 ei
svely circulated throughout the Commonwealth and
i'll other States, and shall! cause Jwo hundred copies
thereof to be bound, and shall send ore of them 10
be deposited in the Clerks office ofevery county and
corporation court in the commonwealth
BE 1t further enacted, That Tie Auditor of Pub
lie Accounts shall cause this act to be published in
such CT the newspapers within this Commonwealth
and not exceeding two such newspapers cut Of this
Conimonwea h, for term nat exceeding one month
as he shall think necessary to give Of the nro
visions thereof and he shall audit the accounts there
or I" be paid out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
Z. In all controversies, which shall or may arise
linz nn1E o,Cn
for non payment of taxes by the provisions of this
act are shall be rredeeuable and the vesti,p TN
or 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 or names such
lands haVe been or shall be returned delinqucnt his
her, or their bers devsees ab0rinc under anv
disability OF infancy, coverture, insane mind or imDri.
sonment, evidence Of snch delinquency in respect To
the and of the forfeiture thereof and Of the title
vested in the said President I'd Directors nor shall
such forfeiture, or the title vested in the said Pres
dent and Directors, be imPeached for any ALLEGED
rreguiarity IN the proceedings by which such forfe
ture 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
mpeachns the title SO vested in The said President
and Directors on the ground that the taxes were not
IN arrear, shall be held to proof of the payment
thereof.
g. And whereas it is known to the General Assem-.
ply, ha' IN many cases. lands, or parts parcels of
lands, especially such have been granted and an
proPrated, under the passed at the &Iay session
IN the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy
nine, entitled an act, for establishing Land Office
and ascertaining the terms and manner Of granting
waste and unapproPriated lands, and the subsequent
acts On the same subject,) which have herctofore
been, or NAV hereafter be returned denouent 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 act
shall or may hereafter be forfeited and vested in h
said President and Directors held by persons oter
than those for whose defaul .hey have been or shall
be SO forfeited, claiming bona fde, medatey or inn
mediately under grants from the Commonwealth; and
that the said actual holders and bona fde claimants
have settled and improved the lands so by them held
and claimed, and have, moreover paid all public taxes
thereon, due and charged, Justly cbargeabIe to
shem and It is therefore, reasonable and lust that the
titles of such actual holders and bona ide claimants
should be Quoted and perfected SO far as the trans
fer to them of the rights vested in the said President
and Drectors-and, therefore, subject to the disposi
ton OF the General Assembly, can accomplish that
object.
Be it, therefore, further enacted That all the right
title and interest of the said President and Directors
in or to any lands, except such 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
yest IN the President and Directors, shall and NAV