South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-04-04
SATURDAY, APRIL A. 1885.

suant to notification the taxes, &c. to
be lien on delinquent lands, until the
same be paid and satisfied. All lands
which may have been purchased by the
sheriff on behalf of the state. shall be en-
braced in the lists required to be made
out by the auditor in 1910, and shall be
again sold by the sheriff in that year, re-
deemable, however, by the owner till the
day of sale; provides remedies against
sherfs and clerks for failure to perform
duties required of them; authorizes, IN
cases where lands previously forfeited
may have been sold for taxes of 1884, the
purchaser to make oath that he was ig-
norant of such forfeiture at the time of
purchase, and the sheriff to refund the a
mount paid +; gives to the owner OF lands
sold for taxes. or his authorized agent,
within the time required by law, authori-
ity to tender to the purchaser the true a
mount of taxes and damages in redemp-
ton thereof; and if the purchaser be out
of the county, having no known agent
therein, authorizes him to deposit the
same with the clerk of the county, who
shall cause the lands SO redeemed to be
re-entered on the land book in the name
of such owner and revives the 2lst and
22d sections of the act of the LIST April,
1881, until the said LIST Of July, 1896.
An act prescribing the manner of maxi
ing wills and testaments of personally |;
provides that every person aged eighteen
years or upwards, of sound mind, and not
married woman. shall have power to
make will of all PERSONAL estate in
possession or in action, present or future,
vested or contingent, provided it be sign
ed by such person, or some other in such
persons presence, and by his direction,
and if not written by such person, attest
ed by two or more credible witnesses, in
his or her presence. Such wills not to
be made in derogation of the rights of
creditors, or of widows renouncing the
wills ftheir husbands in the manner now
allowed. The act to take effect from the
first of May.
An act to amend the act, entitled, an
act declaring the mode in which defend-
ants in replevin shall make avowries, and
! for other purposes, passed March 18th,
1884; provides that hereafter no lessor.
his heirs or assigns, shall make distress
for rent until he shall have verified by
oath or affirmation by himself or another,
that the amount of money or other thing
to be distrained for is in arrear for rent
| reserved upon contract; and that he be-
lieves no part hath been paid; nor shall
he make distress by virtue Of his own
warrant, or the warrant of his agent /;
but upon the authority of an affidavit
made as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for
any justice of the peace in the state up.
on the application cfsuch lessor, his heirs
or assigns, or their agent, to issue war.
rant of distress for the amount so verifi-
ed. to any proper officer where the goods
dlstrained for may be found, or the leas-
ed premises, or any part thereof, may
lie; such warrants to have the same eff
feet as similar warrants issued by the
lesser, his heirs or assigns, would have
had in law, prior to the 18th March, 1884;
repeats the second section of the act
passed 18th March, 1884 and prohibits
officers making sale of any thing distrain-
ed for rent, for credit, if the amount sold
be under ten dollars such sales to be
for cash.