Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-15

tors and Of lands which shall hereafter be returned
delinquent for payment Of taxes hereafter to &C
cruc, and which shall be by f,rce of the provisions
Of this act, forfeited for that CAUSE aud vested IN
the sad President aud Directors; II the person or
persons, IN whose name or names such lands have
been heretofore returned delinquent, and vested IN
the said President and Directors, were, ut the date
Of such forfeiture declared und still remain under
disability Of infancy, coverture, iusane mind or m-
prisonment, and If the person persons IN whose
name or names srch land as shall be according to
the provisions Of this act forfeited and vested IN the
said President aud Directors, have been returned
delinquent. are now under any of the said disabii-
ttes;--and 1t the person presons in whose pame
or Names such lands. according to the provisions
of this act shall may be hereafter forfeited
and vested in the said Pres.den' and Directors.
shah DO returned delinquent, shall be at the
date OF such forfeiture under any of the said dis
abilities-in such case, it shall and may be law
hl for such person persons TO redeem such lands,
by payment int" the treasury. upon the warrant OF
the Auditor OF all arrears of taxes Justly due and
ohargeable thereon with ten per centnm per annum
damaEss on the same from the time times when
the taxes accrued, shall accrue. within two years
newt after their respective disabilities removed, and
not afterwards; and If suchperson persons shall die
in any such state Of disability then the heirs dc
vsees OF such person or persons dying, may in like
manner, aud on the like terms redeem such lands
within two years after the death of his, her their
ancestor or devisor
And, Prnuihed that nothing in this act contained
shall be construed To nnnul, impair any utiact
lands heretofore forfeited for payment of taxes
ord sold in pursuance of any former laws but all such
rights shall continue to be regulated and determined
by the former laws relating them If this act
had never been passed
II shall be- the duty of the First Auditor, to
couse alphabetical lists OF all the lands in the Com
monwealth, which heretofore have been. which
hereafter may be, returned delinquent for pay
ment OF taxes and which are redeemab.e AZ cording
TO the provisions Of tins act, be made out; begin
lis, wi no C-Din
West OF the Allegheny Mountains and publishing.
IN manner hereinafter mers oned. the list - an.s
which have bsen return ID delinquent before tic pass
ing of this Hct the same can be n, dc
for the purpose, and me list of lan,ls which NAV
hereafter be returned delinquent. between II" months
of February and May, Of The year succeeding that
in which the delinquency shall and be returned:
in which lists the Auditor shall specify. separate
columns the names of the persons To whom rcspec
lively such lands stand charged whthe taxes, the
several tracts and the quantity Of land in each tract,
the year or years for the taxes whereof the
delinquent, Tire amount Of taxes duo thereon, and in
arrear, the comfy Cruntics wherein the lands lie.
ond such descriptions Of ne local situation thereof
IA the information in his Office will enable him To
make; and the Auditor shall contract for the printing
OF the said lists from time 10 time, as they
are completed, upon sheets of convenient size, in
quarto form, end shall cause the same 10 be ex,eh
stve4y circulated throughout the Commonwealth. and
In o. her States, and shall causc TWO hundred copies
thsreof to be bound and shall send one of them to
corporation cnuFt in the commonwealth.
BE 1t further enacted, That the Auditor Of Pub
lie Accounts shall cause this act he published in
such OF the newspapers within this Commonwealth,
nnd not exceeding two such newspapers ont of this
Commonwealth, for a term not eXcp,ding one month
es he shall think necessary give notice of the pro-
visions thereof and he shall audit the sccnun's there
Of, to BE paid Of any MONEY in the Treasury no,
otherwise appropriated.
:. In al controversies, which Shall or NAY arise
tu9schu the delinquency and forfeiture Of such lands
Tor payment az taxes by the provisions Of this
act shall be iedecmabfe and the vesiihg there.
Of in the President sod Directors Of the Literary Fnd
the Certificate Of Che Auditor Of Public Accounts Of
s,,ch '~t.-7rerry ard c~-fs;tn'., ag.inst
on person or PERSONS in whose name names such
lands trave been or shall be returned Delinquent, his
her, helr hers devsees. not abJrinr under any
disability Of infancy, coveriure, INSANE mind or mpri-
sonment. evidence Of such delinquency ia respect to
the same. ind Of the forfeiture hsrenf, and Of the title
vested in the said President I'd Directors, nor shall
such forfeiture, the title vested in the sad Presi
dent and Directors, be impeached for any alleged
irregnhry in me proceedings BY which ssich forfei-
ture accrued. other than the fact. that tie taxes for
non payment whereof the forfeiture was imposed had
been actually PAID unless the irresuiari;y alleged
appear the face Of e proceedings; ana any person
mpeachinE the title SO vested in the said President
and Directors Ole ground THAT the t1xes were no,
in arrear, ahsh BIC held to pronf q The payment
thereof.
8. And where's 1t is known TO he GEnera Assem-.
by, That in many cases, lands paris parcels of
ESnds, (e,pecia1y spch have been granted and an
pvupriated, under ehc act pssed at the May session
in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy
nine, entitled an act, for establishing Land Office
and ascertainiIg The terms and manner of granting
wsste and unaPpyoprfated lands and the Subsequent
ACTS on the same subjeci.) which have heretofore
been or mas hereafter be returned delinquent, for
non payment Of taKcs and which have been heretofore
Vested by law in the President aud Directors af the
Literary Fund, 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 for whose def?olt ."y have been or shall
be I'D forfeited. claiming bona fde, mediaeiy or i'm,
mediatey, onder grants from the Commonwealth; and
that the said actual holders and bona fde 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 is therefore, reasonable and JUST that the
titles Of such actual holders and bona fide claimants
should be quoted and perfected, far as the trans
fer to them OF the rights vested tile said President
and Directors-and. therefore, subject to the dspos.
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 nv lac