Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-06-02
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WHOLE NO. 1914.

any pclSoH SHdII Uuy VI sell vote, or shall
: vote more than once at any corporation cleo
/ ton, held in pursuance of law, or shall civ,
! or receive any consideration therefor in mo
ney, goods, or any other thing of value, o
shall promise any valuable consideration, O
vote in consideration of such promise, he shall
be disqualified forever thereafter from votin.
and holding any office under said corporation
and, on complaint thereof TO the Attorney O.
the United States for the District of Columbia
it shall be the duty of said Attorney 10 pro-
coed against such offender or offenders, by in.
dictment and trial, as in other criminal cases
and, If found guilty, it shall be the duty oil
the court to sentence him TO pay fine of moi
less than ten dollars, and to Imprisonment not
more than two months nor less than ten DAYS.
SEC. 6. Ind be 1t further enacted, That in
case OF the refusal of any person 10 accept the
office OF Mayor upon his election thereto, or
OF his death, resignation, inability, or removal
from the city, the Board of Aldermen and
Board OF Common Council shall assemble in
JOINT meeting and elect another in his place,
10 serve for the remainder of the term, or du-
ring such disability but in case of temporary
absence from the city, or of sickness, the May
or may, in writing, depute the President OF
the Board of Aldermen to act as Mayor during
SEC. Z. A1ad be at further enacted, That so
much OF the tenth section of the act incorpo-
rating the inhabitants of the city of Washing
ton, approved May the fifteeath, eighteel. hun
dred and twenty. as is in the following words,
VIZ: " That real property, whether improved
or unimproved, in the city of Washington, on
which two or more years taxes shall have re.
manned due and unpaid, or on which any spe.
clal tax, imposed by virtue of authority of The
provisions OF this act, shall have remained I'M
paid tor two or more years after the same shall
| have become due, or so much thereof, not less
than lot, (When the property on which the
tax has accrued is not less than that Quanti-
ty,) as may be necessary to pay any such tax
es, with all the legal costs and charges arising
thereon, may be sold at public sale to satisfy
the corporation therefor" be, and the same is
| hereby amended, so as to read as follows viz
s. That real property, whether improved OF
unimproved, in the city of Washington, or
which one or more years taxes shall have be.
come due and remain unpaid, or on which a
ny special tax, imposed by virtue of the au
thorty of the provisions of this act, shall have
become due and remain unpaid, or so much
thereof, not less than lot, (when the prop.
ty on which the tax has accrued is not less
than that quantItY,) as may be necessary tC
pay any such taxes, with all interests, costs
and charges arising thereon, may be sold at
public sale to satisfy the corporation therefor -
And so much of the third proviso of the tenth
section of the said act Incorporating the inhab-
itants of the city of Washington, approved
May the fifteenth, eighteen hundred and TWEEN
| ty, as is in the following words, viz THAT
( no sales shall be made in pursuance of this
section, of any improved property wherein
there is personal property of sufficient value
to pay the said taxes" be, and the same is
hereby, repealed. And the authority gwen to
the collector in the eleventh section of said
act to postpone the sale of any property TO a
future day SC for want of bidders" shall be so
construed as to authorize the postponement for
any other reasonable cause, if, in the opinion
OF the Mayor, the collector, or other officer
duly authorized, there shall be other reasona
Bile cause for such postponement; but public
notice shall in all cases be given of such post
ponement, and the sales made at such post
poned time shall be equally valid as if made
the day first designated for such sale and no
sale of any real property for taxes hereafter
made shall be impaired or made void by rea-
son of any error of the Mayor, or other off
Ger of the corporation, in making a calculation
or computation of the amount of taxes due,
the expenses attendant on the advertisement
and sale, or of the purchase money and the
interest thereon, notwithstanding the sum err
roneously calculated or computed may have
been paid by the purchaser, his heirs or as
signs; but all such sales, and the deeds which
may be granted on the certificates then issued,
shall be valid and binding as if no such error
had been made; and it shall be lawful for the
heirs or assigns OF any purchaser or purchasers
OF property sold for taxes in the said city, to
celve, do or perform anything which by the said
act OF the fifteenth of May, eighteen hundred &
twenty. Incorporating the inhabitants Of the
city of Washington, or by any act or acts
supplementary to or in execution of the same,
it may be lawful for such purchaser or pur-
chasers TO receive, do, or perform.
SEC. 8. Ind be At further enacted, That the
said corporation shall have power to cause to be
made out plats of all the squares in the city OF
Washington, on which shall be shown the
lines of all the subdivisions of said squares as
the same shall actually exist at the date of the
completion of the plat of each square, and 10
prescribe and regulate the manner in which
description shall be made of all real estate sold
or transferred in the said city: Provided, That
the said plats shall be made out and drawn
upon uniform scale of not less than one inch
to fifty feet; and that The method of descrip-
ton of real estate sold or transferred within
the corporate limits which shall be prescri-
bed by the said corporation shall be such that
the plats shall at all times show the lines OF
property as actually existing in the squares
and the Office Of the surveyor Of the city OF
| Washington shall be the legal office of record
of the plats of all property in the city Of Wash.
ington.
SEC g. lind be 1t further enacted, That the
school tax which may be levied and collected
in pursuance OF the powers in this act given
shall constitute fund, or be added to any
other fund now or hereafter to be constituted
by any act of the corporation, for the estab
hshment and support of common schools, anC
for no other purpose, under such regulations
as may from time TO time be established anC
provided by the corporation.
SEC. 10. Ind be 1t further enacted, THAI
the corporation shall not have power to in
crease the present funded debt OF the said cor
poration, either by borrowing money or 9th
erwise, unless it shall be agreed to do so BY
two-thrds of the legal voters in the said city
Vat an annual election; and the said CORPORA
ton shall annually apply sum not less thar
ten thousand dollars Of It's revenues to the re-
demption of the present debt of the corpora
ton.
SEC. IL. And be it further enacted, That al!
taxes, except taxes on real property, imposed
by virtue of the powers granted by this act OF
the acts to which this is amendatory or sup
Elementary, in default OF payment thereof
within the time Limited by act OF the incorpo
ration for payment, may be collected by dis
tress and sale of the goods and chatteIs anC