Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-05-02

D
i" ta'd HgCslGcNt Iud Directors; l! tie person or
% .&onS, - vhaye name rr aa,.Cs src. !auIs have
acrn hcrCtOirrc returned derGuvnt had vested IN
the SiiG President ANA DlscCtuIs, were at tho date
~ such iocieiutc declared and still remain, uiiA r
disability 1T infancy. cCvorturc, ;saGc mind :pl-
prlsonmciit aud II the person or persons IN whose
name or names such land, shall be acccrGiom TO
The provhns %; tins act forfeited and vested III IN"
said President and Directors, have been returned !
delinquent, are now under any Of The SAID disab;-
tlcs-aud II the person or r!Cscrs, III whose ran,c
nr names, s1ch lands, according tho provisions
Of this ACT shall may b. Hereafter forfeited
and vested iii the said Pres:den' aud Directors,
Siia'l 10 returned delinquent, sh.!l be at tho
date ct such forfeiture under any Of the said dis
ab'lnies-in such case, it shall and NAV be law
ui Tor such person or persons tn redeem such lands,
ny payment mtoehe treasury upon thc warrant OF
The Auditor OF all arrears OF tONr Justly due and
chargcahlc thereon with ,eu per ccrtnm per annum
damages on the from the tlnl. or times when
;he taxes accrued :hail accrue. within ,ro wears
next ailer their respective disabilities removed. ard
not afterwards; and II suchperson persons shall die
IN any such state OF disability then the heirs or dc
vlsees OF such person persons dying may Ike
manner, and on tho Tx" terms redeem such lands
within Two years after tho death of his. her or their
ancestor dcvisor.
And, Procid,d, that nothing in this &C, contained
shall be construed Ia annul, impair or any " s affect
The rights of any purchaser or purchasers OF any
lands heretofore forfeited or payment OF taxes,
ard sold IN pursuance of any former law; but all such
by the former laws relating 10 them as /. this act
| had never been passed
! l. shall b. the duy of Inc First Auditor TO
c,uSe alphabetical lists OF all the lrrI. ~ ,be rn,
monwcalth, which heretofore have boon. or winch
hereafter may BE- returned dcinCuc:,t for non pay
| mcnt OF taxes, and which arc rcdeemlbc according
10 the provisions of this act, to be made out begin
ming in making out such lists with the cnun,e. Vino
west oil the Allegheny Mountains, AMI publishing.
IN manner hereinafter mentioned, the list Of Ian Is
which have been returned delinquent before tic cass
ing oil this act, soon the m be Ina;,c ont
| for The purpose, and The list of lands which may
hereafter be returned delinquent, between h. months
OF February and Nav of The YEAR succeeding that
IN which the delinquency shall occur aud be returned:
IN which lists the Auditor shall spccify m srDarar,
columns the names OF the persons ~ whom rcspcc-
lively such lands stand charged witfithe taxes the
several tracts, and the quantity of land in ch tract
The year or Yeas for the whereof the same arc
delinquent The amount of taxes due thereon aud in
arrcar the comfy or Counties wherein the lands lie
ana suca descriptions OF he luc.l situation thereof
rs the information in his Office will enable HIN 10
make; and the Auditor shall contract fI the PRINTING
OF the said lists from time 20 time as soon as they
/ arc completed, upon sheets of convenient size in
quartz form, and shall cause the came 10 be eyrci
sivey circulated throughout the Commonwealth and
IN other States, and shn cause TWO hundred comics
thereoi TO be bound, and shall send orc of them 10
DC deposited in the Clerks ofcc ofcvcry county and
corporation court IN the commonwealth
! 6 Bc 1t further enacted That the Audito, of Pub
TIC Accounts shall cause this 10 be published in
! such ct the newspapers within this Commonwealth
ana not exceeding two such newspapers on, of this
Co!n''1nWeai ~ Tor a term not exceeding month
as lie sha!l think necessary to give not zee of tho
visions thcren and he shall audit the accounts tbcra
Oh l" oe paid Out at any money in the Treasury no,
"iLcrwlse Appropriated.
Z. In all controversies which s7att or mr., -,
Iouchln5 the delinquency and forfeiture OF such lands
Tor non payment OF taxes by the provisions of he
act are or shall be rredeemabe and the yesg there
OF IN the President and Directors of the Literary Fund
me certificate OF the Auditor Of Public Accounts of
such delinquency and forfeiture, shall be as against
,He person or persons in whose name names such
lands nave been or Shall DE returned dennncni his
her or their heirs or devsees, not laborng under any
disability of infancy, covertnre, mind or impr
sohnent evidence of such delinquency in resDect to
the same, and If the forfeiture thereof and Of The I.
vested IN the said President I'd Directors nor shall
such forfeiture, or the title vested in the said presi
dent and Directors, be impcached for any ALLEGED
rreSniari'y IN the proceedings by which such forei
uTe accrued, other than the fact, that the taxes for
non payment whereof. the forfeiture was imposed had
been actually paid, Unless the rregularity alleged
appear on the face OF the proceedings; and any person
mpeaching the title vested in the said Pre- sid.r,
and Directors Nh the ground that the taxes were mi
IN arrear, shall be held to proUf of the payment
thereof. N''
s. And whereas it is knowp to the General As,sr,.
by, mat IN many cases, lands parts or parcels of
lands Especially such rs have been granted and an
proprated, under the passed at the Nav sessor
III t"e year one thousand seven hundred and seventy
nInc, entitled an act, for establishing Land OGico
and asceTtLning the terms and manner of pr,n,n,,
waste and unappropriaied lands, and the su,,senuenI
ACTS on the same subJect.) which have heretofore
been, or NAV hereafter he returned dclinnuept for
non payment OF taxes and which have been heretofore
vested by law, IN the President and Directors az ,
Literary funJ, or which, by the provisions Of tl,s c,
Sa!' or may hereafter be forfeited and vested in the
sad President and Directors, held by pcrsons o,c
Than those tor whose defaalt .hy have been or shaI
nc so forfeited, claiming bona fiC, medi.ey or i'm
tnedistcy, Under grants from the Commonwealth and
.hat The sad actual holders ard bona ide claimants
nave settled and improved The lands, by them held
and claimed, and have moreover paid all IubIic avs
.hereon' due and charged, justly chargcable to
item: and II IS therefore, reasonable and lust that the
utIes OF such actual holders and bona iie cl,inana
should be Quoted and perfected, so far as the tranq
Ter TO them OF the rights vested in The said President
and DTecors-and, therefore, subject to the dsnosi
ton Of the General Assembly, an accomplish tha,
object '' ''''
BE It, therefore further enacted, That all the rirb,
tue ana interest OF the said President and Directors
IN or to any lands, except such sali be herein af
excepted, which have heretofore been vested lv L,
IN The said President and Directors, or which bytlc
provisions Of this act, may hereafter be fyr!~eonJ
vest ~ the President and Drcctorg shall and NAV
be, IN the hereinafter prescribed Transferred
to and vested ~ any and every person or refsons