Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-05-30

DC SO toTtetcC CLAIMING bona tide, mediatey or i'm
under grants from the Commonwealth and
tliat the said actual holders and bona de claimants,
have.se'ied and improved the lands by them held
ana Claimed and have, moreover, paid all public taxes,
'hereon, due and charged, justly chargeable to
,heu aud it is therefore. reasonable and just, that the
'tes OF such actual holders and bona fde claimants.
should be quilted and perfected, far the trans
fer Ia them of the rights vested in the said President
ana Directors-and therefore, subj toihe DISPOSE
Uon OF The General ASSEMBLY Can accomplish tina,
object.
BE it, therefore, further enacted, That all the right
t'e 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 sa President and Directors. which. by the
provisions OF TINS act may hereafter be forfeited and
vest l" the President and Directors, shall and may
be, IN the manner hereinafter prescribed transferred
90 and vested in any and every person CT persons
other than those, for whose default the same have
been forfeited, and their heirs or devsees. who
now IN actual possession snd occupation Of the said
forfeited lands, any part parcel thereof for SO
much thereof, such person persons have just III
lie or Claim to- legal equitable, bonafide, claimed
ileid or derived FROM under any grant OF the Com
WonU eath, who shall have discharged all taxes duly
assessed and charged against him, her them, upon
such lands and all taxes that ought 10 have been
sessed and charged thereon, from the time when he,
she or they, acquired hs her, their title thereto
whether legal or equitable.
9. So, likewise, an The right, TILE and interest, in
or to any lands, except such shall be herein after
excepted, which shall hereafter be returned deiin-
quent TOR nDpayment of taxes. and shall be. under
cause and vested in the said President and Directors
shall and may be, in the manner herein after prescrb-
eel, transferred and vested in any person per.
sons who shall may be- at the time OF such future
forfeiture and vestng thereof in the said President
and Directors in actual possession and occupation of
tire SAID forfeited lands, any part parcel thereof
tor SO mitch thereof, as such perspn persons shall
have Just title or claim to- legal equitable bonafic
claimed, derived ard held Under any gran of the
Commonwealth, which Shall hE been issued before
the passing of this ac' ana who shall have discharged
upon such lands, and all taxes which ought to have
oeen assessed thereon, from the time when such per.
persons acquired his her or their title thereto
whether legal or equitable.
10 !and whereas it is known to the General Assem-
oily, that III many cases. divers large tracts of land have
oeen eschea'ed he Commonwealth, for want of any
Of or of persons cai ing mnder them and such lands,
BY reason Of such G cheat, have become vested &C.
cordins to law, in h President and Directors of the
Literary Fund, while at the very time Of the escheat
the same lands, or pa Is parcels thereof we're bona
iide Claimed, held an occupied by numerous other
persons deriving title thereto, FROM or under other
grants OF the Common wealth, and having ac.uay set
tleo ard improved the same and discharged all taxes
charged aganet ihen, upcn the lands claimed held
and occupied by them and is reasonable ait inst.
that the, titles Of such actual holders and bona fde
Claimants OF lands SO escheaed should be Quoted and
perfected SO tar as the transfer to them Of the rights
vested IN the said President and Directorsand there.
tore, subject to the disposition of the General Assem-
bly,, may 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 as shall be herein
eXcepted) which have been shall n, reaer be vest
cd IN them, by reason of escheat thereof for want
OF known heirs of the original grantee or grantees or
OF persons claiming from under them shall! and NAV
oe III Tie manner herein after prescribed transferred
10, anu vested IN any and every person or persons
who were or shall be- at the time of esceat in actual
possession aud occupation of the said eschested lands
or any part OF parcel thereof for much thereof, a
such person persons have Just title or claim to- Ie
equitable. bona hetd nd de,,
from or under grant of the Commonwealth. issued
before the date of the escheat, and who shall have dis
charged all taxes duly assessed against him, her
them, upon such lands and all taxes that ought have
been assessed or chaEged hereoR som tine time when
he she or they, acquired his, her eir title thereto
whether legal or equitable
II. And to Tie end, that fit and certs;o remclv
may be provided, for ascertaning the rights of any
such actual holaers and bona fie claimants as afore
sad OF the SAID unds of any part par
Gel thereof, and for vesting in, and assuring Them
all Tie right, title and interest, in and TO the same
which have heretofore been vested by law or which,
by the provisions of this act SHALL or may be hereaf
ter vested, IN the President and Directors of the Lie
terary fund and also, for ascertainag the rights of
such actual holders and bona de claimants as afore-
sad, OF the SAID eseheaed lands of any part par
Gel thereof, and for vestng in and ASSURING tn them
all inc right title and interest Of the said President
and Directors, IN and to the said escheated lands:
BE IT. therefore, further enacted, That any such &C.
tual holder and bona fde claimant of any Of the
sad forfeited lands OF any Of the said esrhcated
lands, or OF any part parcel of either NAV prefer
bis petition to the Superior Court of Chancery hav,
ing jurisdiction over the county wherein the said for
teited or escheated ards, the parcel of the same
held and claimed by the petitioner or the greater part
thereof may lie, setting forth, specially and precisely
all the FACTS which, in the opinion of such petitioner
entse him, according to the provisions Of this act
herein above contained, to have the right, title and
interest," of the said President aud Directors in or to
the said forfeited lands the said escheated lands as
he case may be- or any part parcel of either trans
terred to, and vested in the said petitioner in pursu
ance of the provisions of this act stating and teduc
ing his own right title, legal or equitable to the
land by him claimed and held, exhibiting the docu-
mentary evidence of such his right or title and show
nl the local situation and quantity of the land BY him
CLAIMED and held; specifying also, so far as the same
ere knoWn, the person or persons, in whose name or
Names the lands held and claimed By him. stand for.
eitcd FOR non payment of taxes, or escheated in man
aforesaid, if the lands shall have been forfeited
for than one delinquency, or escheated in more
han right, the several delnquencies for which for
fixtures shall have been incurred or the several rights
escheated, the may be; finally setting forth
any other matters, which the petitioner may deem ma
terial TO his case and praying the Court to decree.
that all the right title end interest, Of the said Pres
dent and Directors, in to the lands claimed ana
held by him, shall be transferred and vested in the
petitioner.
II. Such petition may be preferred in Court, or
MED at any time in the Clerks Office and Whenever
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