Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-20


tors, and of lands which shall hereafter be returned
delinquent FOR non payment Of taxes hereafter to &C.
cruc, and which shall be by force of the provisions
OF this act forfeited for that cause, and vested in
the SAID President aud Directors; II the person or
persons. III whose name names such lands have
been heretofore returned delinquent, md vested IN
the said President aud Directors, were, at the date
of such forfeiture declared and still remain, under
disability ~ infancy, cOverturc. insane mind :ui-
prSonmcnt. aud # the person persons IN whose
name ar names such land as shall be according to
The provisions of this act forfeited and vested The
said President and Directors, have been returned
delinquent, n"w under any OF the SAID dsa bull
iicS;-nnd 1t the person or prcSons, IN whose rame
or n"mcs, such lands. according the provisions
at tins act shall or may be hereafter forfeited
and vested III the said Pres:den aud Directors.
shall he returned delinquent, sh7ll he at the
date OF such Forfeiture under any of the said dis
abties-in such case, il shall and may be law
mi FOR such person or persons To redeem such lands,
by payment into the -easury, upon the warrant OF
the Aud tor OF all arrears of taxes Justly due and
cbarge1ble thereon with ten per centum 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; and # suchpcrSon persons shall die
in any such state of disability then tho heirs de-
vISees OF such person persons dying, may in like
manner, and the like terms redeem such lands
within two years after the death of his, her their
ancestor devsor.
And, Procided, that nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to annu. impair any wrse affect
the rights of any purchaser purchasers Of any
lands heretofore forfeited Tor payment of taxes,
ard sold in pursuance of former laws but all such
rights shall continue to be regulated and determined
by the former laws relating TO them if this act
had never been passed.
II shall be the duty Of the First Auditor, to
cause alphabetical lists of all the lands in the Com
monwealth, which heretofore have been, T. which
hereafter may be. returned delinquent for pay
ment of taxes, and which are redeemable according
to The provisions of this act, to be made out; begin
ming in making out such lists with the counties lying
West OF the Allegheny Mountains, and publishing.
IN manner hereinafter mentioned, the list Of lan2s
which have been returned delinquent before TIE pass
ing Of this act, soon as the be made out
for the purpose, and the list of lands which may
hereafter be returned delinquent, between he months
of February and May, of the year succeeding that
in which the delinquency shall occur aud be reurned
IN which lists the Auditor shall specify, in separate
columns the names of the persons to whom respcc-
lively such lands stand charged with.the taxes the
several tracts and the quantity of land in each tract
the year years for the taxes whereof the same
delinquent, the amount of taxes due thereon, and in
arrear, the comfy or counties wherein the lands lie
and such descriptions of he local situation thereof
as the information in his office will enable him to
make; and the Auditor shall contract for the printing
of the said lists, from time to time as soon as they
are completed upon ST Gets of convenient size. in
qnarto form. and shall cause the 10 be ex;er.-
sveIy circulated throughout the Commonwealth and
in other States, and shall cause hundred copies
be deposited in the Clerks office of every county and
corporation court IN the commonwealth
BE it further enact ed. That the Auditor of Pub
lie Accounts shall cause this act 10 he published in
such OF the newspapers within this Commonwealth,
and not exceeding two such newspapers out of this
Commonweal h. for a term not exceeding one month
as he shall think necessary give notice of the pro-
visions thereof and he shall audit the accounts there
of, to be paid of any money in the Treasury not
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 shall be irrede and the vestLg 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 against
the person or persons in whose or names such
lands have been shall be returned delinquen,, his
her, their heirs devisees, not aborng under any
disability of infancy, coverture, insane mind or impri
sonment, evidence of such 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 said Presi
dent and Directors be impeached for any alleged
rreguarity in the proceedings by which such forfei
ture accrued other than the fact that the taxes
non payment "!e eof. the forfeiture imposed had
been actually paid, unless the irregula.ty alleged
appear the face of the proceedings and anv person
Impeaching the title SO vested in the said President
and Directors the ground that the taxes were no,
in arrear, shall be held to proof of the paymen'
thereof.
8. And whereas it is known to the General Assem-.
lands, Especially such have been granted and ap-
proprlaed, under the act passed at the May session
in the year thousand hundred and seventy.
nine, entitled an act, for establishing a Land Office
and ascertaning the terms and manner of granting
waste and Incorporated 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 heretofore
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 aud vested. in the
sad President and Directors held by persons other
than those for whose defau .hcy have been or shall
be so forfeited claiming bona fde, media,ely or inn
medlatey, under grants from the Commonwealth; and
that the said actual holders and bona hde claimants
have settled and improved the lands, by them held
and claimed, and have, moreover paid all public taxes
thereon, due and charged. justly chargeable TO
them and it is therefore, reasonable and lust that the
titles OF such actual holders and bona ide claimants
should be quoted and perfected far as the trans
fer to them Of the rights vested in the said President
and Drectors-and therefore, subject to the isposi.
ton OF the General Assembly. can accomplish that
object.
Be 1T, therefore, further enacted That all the right
title and interest Of the said President and Directors
IA q .uy lands ehs bo