Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-05-03

he SAID President and Directors; II the person or
persons, IN whose name or names such lands have
been heretofore returned delinquent, and vested IN
Inc said President and Directors were At the date
Of such forfeiture declared and still remain, under
disability of infancy covcrturc, insane mind ;m-
prisonmcnt, and It the person persons IN whose |
name or names such land, shall be according to
the provisions o this act forfeited and vested the
said President and Directors, have been returned
delinquent, arc now under OF tho sad disab-
# The person or prCsIns, IN whose rame
or names, such lands rs according 20 the provisions
Of this act shall or NAV be hereafter forfeited
and vested i'll the said Prcs:deu and Directors
shall be returned delinquent, shall he at the
date ot such forfeiture under any Of the said dis
nbill'lcs-in such case, II shall and NAV be Jaw
n for such Pc IN persons To redeem such lands.
ay payment into the treasury, upon the warrant. OF
The Auditor of all arrears of taxes Justly due and
chargcabIc thereon with ten per ccntum 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. ard
not afterwards and If suchperSon or persons shall due
III any such state OF disability, then tho heirs de-
visces OF such person persons diving, may IN like
manner, and on the like terms redeem, such lands
within two years after the death OF his, their
ancestor or dcviSor.
And Prorided, that nothing in this act cont aired
shall be construed TO unnu impair or any wise affect
the rights OF any purchaser or purchasers OF any
iandS heretofore forfeited Tor non paVUrnt OF taxes
ard sold in pursuance Of any former la but all such
rights shall continue To be regulated and determined
by the former laws relating TO them. If this
had never been passed.
l. shall b. the durv of the First Auditor. to
c'use alphabetical lists OF all the lands in The Com
monwcalth. which here oinre have been ur which
hereafter may b., returned delinquent for non paw
mCn of taxes, and which arc rcdcemablr according
20 the provisions OF this to be made out: begin
ming in making out such lists, with the counties living
West OF the Allegheny Noun aims and publishing
IN manner hereinafter mentioned, the list Of Ian -
which have been returned delinquent before tic pass
ing OF this act, so soon the can be made ont
for The purpose, and the list of lands which may
hereafter be returned delinquent between n mont ms
Of February and May, at the year succeeding tn.
in which the delinquency shall occur and be rati,rn.d
IN winch lists the Auditor shall! specify. n separate
columns. the names of the persons To uHcm rcs,cc.
lively such lands stand charged yv!ththr taxes IN.
several tracts, and The quantity of land i'm each tract
the year years for the t2Ns whereof tho same arc
delinquent the amount of taxes due thereon aud in
arrcar, the comfy counties wherein the lands io
and such dcscrp; Of he local situation thereof
AS the information in his Office will enable INN To-
make; and the Auditor shall contract for Tho printing
OF the said lists. from time time Us soon as ihey
arc completed, upon sheets of convenient sin in
quarto form. and shall cause the came 10 b. cyicf
sveiy circulated throughout the Commonwealth and
IN other States. and shall cause two hundred comics
thereof to be bound, and shall s-nd orc CT them 10
be deposited in the Clerks office ofcycry county and
corporation court IN the commonwealth.
Is, 1t further enacted, That the Auditor Of Pub
tic Accounts shall cause this to he published in
such OF the newspapers within this Commonwealth
and not exceeding two such newspapers ont of this
Commonwealth, for q term not exceeding one uinnth
ms he shall think necessary to give notice of the nm
visions thereof and he shall audit the accounts there
OF, I" be paid out OF any money i'll the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
Z. In al controversies which Shall on nr,v .rrsn
touching the delinquency and forfeiture of scb lands
for non payment of by the provisions of this
act are or shall be redeemabe and the vestir there
OF IN the President and Directors of the Literary Fund
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such delinquency and forfeiture, shall be as against
the person or persons III whose name names such
lands have been or shall be returned delnuuent his
her. or their heirs devisees, laboring under
disability OF infancy, coverturc, insane mind or impr.
sonmen', evidence of snch 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 or the title vested in the sad P-es
dent and Directors, be impeached for any alleged
lrreguarty IN the proceedings by which such forfei-
ture accrued, other than the fact, that the taxes for
non payment whereof, the Forfeiture was imposed had
been actually paid, Unless the irreguarty alleged
appear on the face OF the proceedings and any person
Impeachns the title vested in the said President
and Directors the ground that the taxes we're no,
IN arrear, shall be held to proof OF the r,ay,cnt
thereof. '
8. And whereas i, is known TO the General Assem-.
oy nat IN many cases. lands parts or parcels of
lands, especially such have been granted and an.
proPrated under the act passed 1T the May session
IN the year one thousand hundred and n,v
nine, entitled an act for establishing a Land Office
waste and unappropriaed lands, and the SUBSEQUENT
acts On The same subIeCt,) which have hcrcioforc
oeen, or NAV hereafter he returned deIinuuer, E,r
non payment of taxes, and which have been heretofore
vested by lazy, in the President and Directors of the
Literary Fund or which by the provisions Of this &C,
shall or may hereafter be forfeited and vested in the
ad President and Directors, held by persons other
than those for whose deasl, .h"y have been or shall
be so forfeited, claiming bona fGe mrdh,,cy or inn
meda'ey, under grants from the Commonwealth; and
that the sId 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, or Justly chargcablc to
them and It IS therefore, reasonable and lust that the
titles OF such ac,ua! holders and bona fitIe claimants
should he queied and perfected so far as the trans
Ter to them OF the rights vested the said President
and DTectors-and therefore, subject to the dsposi
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 aft
excepted, which have heretofore been vested by law
~ The SAID President and Directors or which by the
provisions OF this act, may hereafter be forfeited and
vestt ~ the President and Directors shall and may
be- ~ the manner hereinafter prescribed transferred