Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-05-06
cause. and vested in the said President and nircc-
tors, and of lands which shsl herener be returned


cruc, and which shall be by force OF the provisions
"t this act forfeited Tor that cause, and vested IN
the SAID President and Directors; II the person or
persons, IN whose name NJ names such lands lave
been heretofore returned dcliuuucnt and vested ~
the said President and Directors were 7, 20 date
oil such Forfeiture declared end still rcinlin und.r
disability OF infancy, Overture. insane mind or :m-
prsnnincnt, and II the person or persons in whose
name or names such land, shall be according to |
the provisions this act forfeited and vested in the
said President and Directors, have been returned
delinquent, arc now under any q! the said disabl-
nes;-and If the person or presons IN whose rame
or names, such lands according To the provisions
OF this oct shall or may be hereafter forfeited
and vested in the said Presdent and Directors
shall be returned delinquent, shall be at the
date OF such forfeiture under any of the said dis
ab'ics--in such case, il shall and may be law.
,ul Tor such person persons to redeem such lands
oy payment into the treasury, upon the warrant of
the Auditor OF oil arrears of taxes Justly due and
chnrgeable thereon with ten per centurn per annum
damages on the same from the time or times when
the taxes accrued shall accrue. within two years
next after their respective disabilities removed and
not afterwards aud IT sucbperson persons shall die
IN any such state of disability then the heirs or de-
Vsees OF such person persons dying may m like
manner, and on the Ike terms redeem such lands
within TWO years after the death Of hs her or their
ancestor devisor.
And, Procided that nothing in this act contained
snail De construed to annul impair any wise affect
inc rights OF any purchaser or purchasers OF any
lands heretofore forfeited for non payment OF taxes
ard sold III pursuance Of any former law; but all such
rights shall continue to be regulated aud determined
by the former laws relating TO them ms If this act
had never been passed.
l. shall be the duty of the First Auditor to
cause alphabetical liss OF all the lands in the Com
monwealth, which heretofore have been, or which
hereafter may be, returned delinquent for non pay
ment OF taxes, and which rcdecmable according
10 the provisions Of this be made out; begin
ming in making such lists, with the counties LIVING
west OF the Allegheny Mountains, and publishing
IN manner hereinafter mentioned, the list of Ian Is
which have been returned delinquent before tire pass
ing OF this act, the can be made cut
| for the purpose, and the list of lands which NAV
hereafter be returned delinquent between he mont
of February and May. Of the year succeeding that
IN which the delinquency shall occur and be returned
IN which lists the Auditor shall specify IN scparatc
columns, the names OF the parsons to whom rcSpcc-
lively such lands stand charged with'the taxes the
several racts, and The quantity Of land in each tract
tue year or yeas for the taxes whereof the same
delinquent, the amount of taxes due thereon aud in
arrear the comfy or counties wherein the lands lie
and such descriptions of he local situation thereof
IA the information in his Office will enable him tn
MAKE ana the Auditor shall contract for the prrinr
OF the said lists from time TO time Is soon rs thew
are completed upon sheets of convenient size. in
qusrto form, and shall cause the some TO be ey,et
eiVeiy circulated throughou, the Commonwealth. and
IN other States and shall cause two hundred comics
thereof TO be bound and shall send orc of them N
be deposited in the Clerks office every county and
corporation court IN the commonwealth
3 BE 1t further enacted. That the Auditor OF Pub
Tic Accounts shall cause this act TO be published in
such OF the newspapers within this Commonwealth
and not exceeding two such newspapers out of this
commonwealth, for term not exceeding one month";
as he snail thlnk necessary TO give notice OF the pro-
visions thereof and he shall audit the accounts there
Of to be paid out Of any money in the Treasury nc,
otherwise appropriated.
Z. In all controversies, which shall or NAV arise
touching the delinquency and forfeiture Of such lands
tor non payment OF taxes by the provisions of this
act are shall be irredeemabe and the yestip there
OF 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 pcb
lands have been shall be returned delnouent his
ne or ther heirs or devisees, not aborng under any
disability OF infancy, coverture, mind or i'm
sonmen evidence of such delinquency in respect tn
the same, and of the forfeiture thereof and of the e
vested IN the said President I'd Directors nor shall
such forfeiture, or the title vested in the said P-esi
dent and Directors, be impeached for any alleged
rregusri'y IN the proceedings by which such forfeit
ture accrued, other than the fact that the taxes for
non payment whereof The forfeiture imposed, had
oeen actually paid, unless the irregularty alleged
appear on the lace OF the proceedings and any person
'mpeachns the title so vested in the said President
and Directors on the ground tina, the taxes were not
IN arrear, shall be held to proof of the payment
thereof. f'''0''
o. And whereas it is known to the General Assem-.
ply, mat IN many cases, lands, parts or parcels or
lands, especially such have been granted and nm
proprated under the passed at the Nav sess;nr
IN the year one thousand hundred and seventh
nIne entitled an act, for establishing Land Office
and ascertainng the terms and manner of pran,ing
waste and unappropriated lands, and the SUBSEQUENT
ACTS on The same subJect,) which have heretofore
oeen or NAV hereafter he returned dennuent far
non payment OF taxes and which have been heretofore
vested oy law IN the President and Directors of the
Literary Fund, which, by the provisions of this &c,
snail or may hereafter be forfeited and vested in ,hc
saiu PRESIDENT and Directors held by persons other
han those for whose defaslt .hey have been or shall
De so forfeited, claiming bona fde, medateiy or i'm.
mediateiy under grants from the Commonwealth; and
mat the said actual holders ard bona fde claimants
nave settled and improved the lands, SO by them held
ana Claimed and have m recover, paid all public taxes
,h, due and charged, or justly chargeabe TO
ana II IS therefore, reasonable and lust that the
titles OF such actual holders and bona fde caiman,s
should be quoted and perfected SO far as the trans
Ier TO them OF the rights vested in the said
ana Direetors-and therefore, subject to the disposi
uon OF the General Assembly can accomplish that
BE IT, therefore, further enacted That all the right,
'e ana interest Of the said President and Directors
W OF 70 any lands except such shall be herein after
excepted winch have heretofore been vested by law
ID the SAID President and Directors or which by the
provisions OF this act, may hereafter be forfeited and
Vest in the President and Drectors shall arJ 49,,
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