The true Democrat., 1856-02-05
CONFIRMATION OF TAX TITLE. To ali whom ii may conceru:

NOTICE is hereby given, that on the 27th day ot 1V May, ls3s, at the court house door of Pulaski county. the same being the lst day of the circuit court of said county end between the hours prescri bed by law, William P. Woodruff purchased at a sale of lands had by the sheriff and collector of said county, for payment of taxes thereon, ill Puas Ri county, on that occasion in due form of law, the Northeast Quarter of Section Twenty-0ne, c, in Township One North of Range Ten West. containing one hundred and sixty acres of land; situate in said county of Pulaski, regularly listed and assessed for taxation in said county of Pulask State of Arkansas, in the resident assessment list in the of Harry Spring, and the State and County taxes due thereon, amounting to three doa,s and irty eig cents, for the year lo43; and that the sheriff and collector of said county of Pulaski, on the 28th day of May, l844 by deed of that date duly executed and delivered, conveyed to the said Wm. E. W Woodruf his heirs and assigns, for the consideration aforesaid all the right, title, inter est and claim of the said Harry Spring. and all per in and to said tract of land; and the said Will liam E. Woodruff afterwards quit claimed and relin pushed to William Blythe, the north half of the said quarter section.
 And on the 18th day of September, 164S, the said William E. Woodruff, and Jane Eliza, his wife, and Harry Spring, in consd ration of $50 dollars to said Woodruff. and loo dollars to said Spring; paid by him, conveyed in fee simple to said Wm. t. Ashley, and his heirs and assigns the south half of said orth east quarter of section twenty in township one, north of range ten west, containing eighty acres, which deed was duly acknowledged on the 18th day of September, 1S4S, and duly recorded ln Pulaski county on the 2Tth December, 1852.
 Notice is further given, That oa tie Sd day of November, 1851. William E. Woodruff purchased at sheriff salc of lands for payment of taxes in the county Of Pulaski, at the court house door ot said county, between the hours prescribed by law, the North half of the Northeast quarter of Section TWenty-One. of Township One North. ia Range Ten West. Containing Eighty Acres, situate in Pulaski county. listed and assessed for taxation in the name of William Blythe, non resident of said county, for the sum of
 one doll1r aud e7yt oentS due on said tract of land for lS5l and with penalty and costs thereon amount el t5 two dollars, seventy nine and half cents at which time and place, said sum being paid to the sheriff he executed his certificate of the purchase of said land by the said Wm. E. oodrutf and after the expiration of twelve months. the said W E: wood ruff for value received assigned the land certificate to the said Wm. E. Ashley, who demanded deed from the sheriff of said county and the 23d day of Nov, 1852. the sheriff of Pulaski CO., for the consideration last aforesaid, by deed of that date duly executed conveyed to said William E. Ashley, and his heirs and assigns all the right title, claim and interest of the said William Blythe, and all and every person persons whatsoever, in and to said last mentioned tract of land; which deed was duly acknowledged on the 24th of December, 1852, and recorded in Pulaski county. on the 27th of the same month and year.
 Now. Therefore, all persons who can set up any right to the aforesaid lands, so purchased as aforesaid in consequence of any nformaty or any ir- regularity illegality connected with said tax sales hereby required to come forward and show the same, and show cause. if any they can. why the said sales and the title of the undersigned to said tracts of land should not be confirmed, according to the statute in that behalfprovded petition to be presented for that purpose at the term of the chancery court of Pulaski county, to be holden ut the city of Little Rock. on the ist Monday of November 1856.
 WILLIAM E. ASHLEY.
 s. H. HAMPSTEAD, Attorney.
 Jan s, lS56-6w