Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-21

tors md cf lands which shall hereafter be returned
ielirsuent for non pav,"n; of taxes hereafter to
:rnc. and which shall De by force Of prov sions !
~ tins act, forfeited for that cause, and vested N
The said President and Directors; Il the person or
persons, IN whose name or names such lands have
aeeu hereto'ore returned delinquent. and vested IN
he said President and Directors. were, at the date
81 such forfeiture declared and still remain under
dira b,ity Of infancy. coverture, insane mind or :m
prisonment, and il the person persons IN who's"
name or names such land, 10 shall be according TO
the provisions OF this act forfeited and vested III the
said President and Directors, have been returned
delinquent, are now under any of tho sad Jisnblli-
tics;-anc IT the person pres"ns, In whose ranic
or n'mcs, such ands, according 10 the provisions
OF this &C, shall or NAV be hereafter forfeited
and vested i'll the said Pres.den' and Directors,
shall be returned delinquent, Shall be at tho
date Of such forfeiture under hny Of the said dts
abIilties-in such case, it shall and may be law
mi nor such person or persons 10 redeem such lands,
by payment into the treasury, upon the warrant of
tho Auditor Of all arrears of to res Justly due and
chargcsb BILE thereon with ten per cen.um per annum
damages on the same from the time times when
the taxes accrued, shall accrue. within years
next ncr their respective disabilities removed, and
not afterwards and It suchperson persons shall die
in any such state Of disability. then tho heirs or dc
vsses OF such person persons dying, may in like
manner, and on the like terms redeem such lands
within two years fer the death Of hs, her or their
ancesior or devisor.
And, Provided, that nothing in this act conta med
shall be construed to annul. impair any affect
the rights Of any purchaser or purchasers Of any
lands heretofore forfeited for payment Of taxes,
ard sold in pursuance Of any former law; but all such
rights shall continue Ia bs regulated and determined
by the former laws relating TO them a. if this
had never been passed.
]. shall be tho duty OF tbs First Auditor, to
cause alphabetical lists OF all tho lands in the Com
monwenlth, which heretofore have been, or which
hereafter may be, returned delinquent for pay
ment Of taxes. and which are redeemable according
To the provisions OF this nct TO be made out; begin
ming in making such lists, with the counties lying
West OF the Allegheny Mountains, and publishing.
IN manner hereinafter mentioned, tho list Of lands
which have been returned delinquent before TIE pass
ing OF this act, 80 soon az the be nado ont
for the purpose, and tho list of lands which NAV
hereafter be returned delinquent, between h" months
Ut February and May, Of tho wear succeeding that
in which the delinquency shall occur and be returnpd
IN which lists the Auditor shall specify, IN separate
columns. the names of the persons To whom respec-
tlvely such lands stand charged wththe taxes. tn.
several tracts and the quantity Of land in each tract
the year or yeas for the taxes whereof the
delinquent, tho amount of taxes due thereon and in
arreor, the comfy or counties wherein the lands e
and such descriptions Of he local situation thereof
al the information IN his Office will enable him To
make and the Auditor shall contract for tho printing
of the said lists from time 10 time, as soon as thew
are completed, upon sheets Of convenient size. in
qnarto form, and shall cause the same 10 DO ex,ct
slveiy circulated Throughout, Tho Commonwealth, and
in other States and shall 0hse two hundred comics
be deposited in the Clerks Office Of every county and
corporation court in the commonwealth.
BE 1t further enacted That the Auditor of Pub.
lie Accounts shall cause this 10 be published in
sich OF the newspapers within this Commonwealth
and not exceeding two such newspapers out of this
Commonweal h, for n term not excesding one month
as ne shall think necessary To give of The pro-
visions thereof; and he shall audit the accounts there
of, In be paid Of any money in the Treasury NOT
OF herwlse appropriated
z. In all controversies, which shall NAV
touching the delinquency and forfeiture o such lands
for non payment OF taxes by the provisions of this
act are or shall be and the vrstg 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 Us against
the person or persons in whose name or names such
lands have been shall be returned deiinauen, his
her, or their heirs devsees aboring under any
disability OF infancy, coverturr, insane mind or mpri.
sonment, evidence of such delinquency in respect TO
the same, and of the forfeiture thereof ard of the till.
vested IN the said President I'd Directors, nor shall
such forfeiture, or the title vested in the said Presi
dent and Directors, DO impeached for sny ALLEGED
IN the proceeding, by which such forte
turc accrued other than the fact, that the taxes
non payment whereof, The forfeiture was imposed
been actually paid. unless the itreguiari;y alleged
appear the lace Of the proce edings and anv person
the title vested the said Pre- side MT
and Directors the ground tha, the take. were no,
in srrear, shall be held to proof Of the payment
thereof.
8. And whereas is known to the General Assem-.
uf
lands (especaiy such As have been granted and an.
proPrated' under the act passed a, the May session.
IN the year one thousand hundred and seventy
nine, entitled an act, for establishing Land Office
aud sscerta'ning the terms and manner OF granting
waste and unsppropriated lands and the SUBSEQUENT
acts on the same subJect.) which have heretofore.
been, or NAV hereafter be returned delinquent for
non payment Of taxes and which have been ofore
vested by law, in the President and Directors Of the
Literary Fund, which, by the provisions of this ACT
shall or may hereafter be forfeited and vested in the
sad President and Directors held by persons other
than t!ose for whose drfaut .hry have BEEN or shall
be so forfeited claiming bona fde, mediatey or i'm.
nedaiely, under grants from the Commonwealth; and
that the aid actual holders and bona file claimants
have settled and improved the lands by them held
and claimed and have. moreover paid all public taxes.
thereon, due and charged, justly chargeablc TO
them: and is therefore, reasonable and lust thu, IN,
titles OF such actual holders aud bona hde claimants.
should be quoted and perfected far as the trans
fer TO them OF the rights vested the said
and Dreeiors-and, therefore, subec, t. the i,posi.
ton of the General Assembly, can accomplish tha,
object.
Be it, therefore, further enacted That all the right,
title and interest OF the said President and Directors
IN or TO any ands except such shall be herein after