Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-03-23

ouer court, recorded by the clerk upon the minutes
of the court. and copy thereof shall be put up IN
some public part of the court house. Il
(2) The county court shall order the clerk OF said
court to issue notices 10 every person, whose land
returned by the sheriff to sell for taxes, and copy
of said notice shall be served on the owner agent
or attorney of the of said lands, and an official
return of such service made to the county court
and if the owner be nonresident the clerk shall
publish the same in some newspaper prin ted in the
State in which advertisement shall be mentioned
the situation of the land, the streams on near
which it lies, the estimated quantity, the names OF
the owners, when they are known, and the names OF
the tenants or occupiers of the same.
~ The sale shall be made within the two terms
next succeeding the term when the returns made
of lands 10 be sold, and ct such place in the county
as is directed for sale of land under execution and
the whole expense attendant the advertising and
sale. shall be chargeable on the lands, and raised at
the sale.
(4) The whole tract or contiguous body of land,
belonging to one delinquent person company, shall
be set up for sale at the tme and the bid shall
be struck off TO him who will pay the amount of
taxes with all the expenses aforesaid, for the small
est part of the land
81 At the second term next succeeding the term
when the returns made of lands to be sold, the
sheriff shall return list of the tracts actually sold
for taxes the quantity of the tract bought and to be
laid of, the name of the purchaser, and the sum
paid to the sheriff for taxes and charges which list
shall be read aloud by the clerk, in open court shall
be recorded in the minutes of the court, and copy
thereof shall be put up by the clerk, during the
erm, in some public part of the court house.
go. The land of an infant, lunatic. or person non
compoS ments shall not be sold for taxes Provided,
however, that where land may be owned by such per-
sons, in common with another others free of such
disability the share interest of the persons so free,
shall be subject 10 be sold for the taxes due the
whole tract; but before setting apart the quantity
bid off, the purchaser, by petition shall the
tract to be divided among the tenants In common,
and the share interest of the defaung tax payer
being set apart the purchaser may proceed to lay of
such share, the quantity by him bid Off, and secure
the title is before provided and the time
rily employed in procuring such division, shall not
be reckoned against the purchaser
SO. The owner of land, sold for taxes under the
ninety-frs section of this chapter his heirs, ex-
ecutors or administrators, or any other person for
them, may redeem, the same from the purchaser, at
any time within year after the sale by paying
rendering in payment, to the purchaser to the
county court clerk, of the county where the land lies
the full amount of the price paid TO the sheriff, and
twenty five per cent. thereon
81 If the land sold shall not be redeemed with
IN the period aforesaid, the purchaser may, at the
end of that tme select the quantity of land struck off
to i'm, out of any part of the tract body of which
the was bid off, the said quantity to be laid off
in one compact body, nearly in square may
be, and adjoining to of the out lines of the whole
tract or body of land
95. Within one year after the time of redemption
shall have passed, the purchaser, at his COSTS
his heirs, executor administrator, any other for
bem may procure the quantity bid off to be survey
ed by the county surveyor, who shall make out and
certify, under his hand fair plat of the survey with
the and distances fairly and truly set forth
and If the county surveyor, on request, shall fail to
make such survey and plat then any other surveyor
may make and certify the same.
90. The sheriff, on being presented with such Ger
tilted plat within the year after the time of redemp-
ton is passed. shall convey to the purchaser the land
therein contained.
o. Where, by any provision of the law any sher-
if or officer other than the person who sold for the
taxes, shall be authorised to execute conveyance for
the land, the purchaser shall apply to the county
court and on showing to the court that such pur-
chase had been made, and the price paid 10 the shcr-
1T who sold, and that he has paid the other taxes
since accruing thereon, the court shall direct the
present sheriff to execute deed, the purchaser
producing to him a certified plat and survey as is
provided for in sections ninetyve and ninety six of
this chapter.
SO. The purchaser of land sold for taxes, under
the ninety first section Of this chapter shall be con.
sidered taking and holding the same subject to
all the taxes accrued from the first day of April in
the year preceding the purchase.
80. If any sheriff clerk shall fail to perform any
of the duties prescribed in sections nnetieh and nine
tyrst of this chapter he shall forfeit and nav to the
person aggrieved one hundred dollars, and shall
be liable, he and his sureties on his bond for
all such damages as any one may sustain by reason
Of such default.
100 If any county surveyor, being required within
two months after the survey may be lawfully made,
to survey the land bid off at sale for taxes shall
wilfuly fail to do within four months after such
request, he shall forfeit and pay to the purchaser, or
his executor or administrator hundred dollars
i 10l If no person will bid less quantity than the
whole land for the taxes the bid shall be deemed the
bid of the State, and the land shall be struck off to the
State the purchaser and the sheriff shall report in
writing to the county court, at the time he returns
list of the land sold for taxes, what and whose lands
thus struck off to the State, describing them par
ticuIarly; which report shall be recorded on the min
utes OF the court, and thereupon the title of said
lands shall be deemed to have been vested in the
State from the time of purchase.
1902 The clerk shall, within twenty days after the
return of the shers report of the land sold to the
State, make and certify two copies thereof, one of
which he shall transmit to the comptroller and the
other deliver to the sheriff. Cor 10 his sureties when
they ac who shall deposit the same with the secre.
tary of State 10 be by him recorded and the secre-
tary shall grant to the sheriff certificate setting forth
what and whose lands, and the quantity and value
thereof have been sold for taxes and struck off the
State.
1O3. If any sheriff, or other person authorized
thereto, Shall sell for taxes and strike off any land to
the State, and shall fail duly to report the same to
the county court, or to duly obtain and deposit a
copy thereof with the secretary of State the comp.
troer shall in his report to the treasurer charge such
sheriff. (or other person acting in his stead with the
sum of two thousand dollars and the treasurer shall
recover the same as unpaid tax.
lo4. Lands bid off for the State may be redeemed
IN like time, and under the rules and regula
tons as those purchased by Individuals except that
the payment (Which shall be double in amount of all
the taxes for width they sod sh all be made tc
the treasurer, and his certificate thereof the secre
tary of State shall, on being paid his fees issue