The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-04-01

SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect ana Oe
in force from and after its passage.
Approved March 4, 1864.
AN ACT to amend section nineteen, OF cnaP'
ter four of article two, of the Laws OF looV'
being an act to provide for the layicg out,
altering, disseminating, working ana repair
ing roads and bridges.
BE 1t enacted 6g tho Legislature Of me STATE OF
Minnesota:
SECTION i. That section 10, of chapter 4, of
article 2, of the General Laws OF 1860, shall be
amended so as to read as follows:
Section 10. 1t shall be the duty of the super
visors of the several towns to receive the lists
of the overseers of highways, pursuant to the
preceding section, and return the same to the
County Auditor of the county on or before the
LIST day of November, in each year, who is
hereby required to levy the amount of such
arrearages Of road tax, upon the lands so re-
turned which arrearages shall be collected in
the same manner as contingent charges of the
county are levied and collected Such road
tax when collected shall be paid to the Town
Treasurer of the proper town, upon the GER
tificate of the Auditor of the county; and
shall be applied by the Supervisors of the town
in the construction of roads and bridges, to be
paid by the Town Treasurer upon the order of
of the Supervisors to the person entitled to
receive the same. s'r.
SEC. 2. All public highways now laid out or
hereafter laid out in this State, shall be deemed
and held to be vacated unless said highways
are opened and worked within three years after
the same were laid out.
SEC. g. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 4, 1864.
AN ACT to amend g An act prescribing the du-
ties of County Auditors" approved March
9th, 1860, and also chapter 8 of the laws of
1862 amending the same.
Be it enacted by tho Legislature Of The State of
Minnesota:
SECTION l. Section % of chapter 2, of the
General Laws of 1860, entitled /" an act pre-
scribing the duties of County Auditors" is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Section %. The County Treasurer or his
deputy, shall attend at the Court House, or at
some other convenient place at the county seat
his county, on the first Monday in June in
conformity with the notice provided in section
AZ of this act, and shall then and there, at and
after the hour of ten in the forenoon. proceed
to offer for sale, separately, each tract of land
or town lot contained in the advertisement
aforesaid, and on which the taxes and interest
and costs have not been paid and The person
or persons Offering at said sale to pay the taxes
interest and costs harged on such land or lot,
for the least quantity thereof, shall be the pur-
chaser or purchasers of such quantity and the
Treasurer shall continue such sale from day to
day. until each tract of land or town lot con-
taxes. Interest and charges remain unpaid shall
be sold or offered for SALE
SEC 2. That section "a of said act shall be
amenied so as to rea as follows:
Section u. The person or persons purchas-
ing such tract OF lind town lot, or any part
thereof, shall forthwith pay TO the Treasurer
the amount OF taxes interests and costs charged
thereon, and in failure SO to do the Treasurer
shall Immediately otfe" said tract of land or
town lot again for sale, in the same manner as,
if no such sale had been made and the person
so IA ling TO make payment shall forfeit and
pay penalty of twenty-five per centum on the
amount of said tax and penalty. to be recover.
ed by civil action ir the name of the Treas
urer for the Use of the county, before any JUS
tice of the Peace or Court having jurisdiction
SEC. J. That section 26 of said act shall be
amended so as to read as follows:
Section &c. The Auditor shall make out and
deliver to the purchaser of any land or lots
sold tor the delinquent taxes as aforesaid
certificate Of purchase therein describing the
land or lots so sold the same was described
in the tax duplicate. and stating therein the
amount OF taxes interest and charges for which
the same was sold; and if only part of tract
be sold. such certificate shall specify the guam
tity sold, and shall be directed to the County
Surveyor. whose duty it shall be, when re-
quested by the purchaser, his assignee or heirs
to lay off. by metes and bourds, as near as
practicable. at the most northwestern corner
of the tract from which the sale was made. the
quantity so sold; and if the sale be made
from an in-lOt or outlet in any town. or from
any particular part thereof 1t shall be the duty
OF the County Surveyor so to lay off the part or
portion sold that it shall extend from the main
o principal street, rod or alley which NAV be
the most convenient front of such lot. to the
rear of the lot and to bound the same bv lines
as nearly parallel with the outlines of such lot
as practicable
SEC. A. That section 90 of chapter 2 of the
a.Nfr III
of1S62, chapter 9. is hereby amended so as to
read aS follows:
'Secton /S. Said certificates of purchase
shall DO assgn;hle in law, and an assignment
thereof shall vest in the assignee Or hi, legal
representatives all the right and title of the Or
iginal purchaser.
Al any time before any tract or parcel ofland
heretofore or hereafter forfeited to the State
shall be redeemed Or sold or disposed Of any
person may become the purchaser thereof BIZ
paying into the County Treasury of the coun
ty. where such parcel or tract Of land was Of
Ter tor sale, all the taxes costs and IN erest due
thereon at the time of such purchase and the
County Auditor shall thereupon make and de-
liver TO such purchaser certificate of pur-
chase. sue. as prescribed in section 26 of this
act reciting therein the time when said tract
or parcel of land was forfeited to the State and
snch purchaser slnl! thertupOn become vested
with the same rights as he would have acouir-
ed had he become the purchaser of said land
AT the delinquent tax sale, when the land was
offered for sale and became forfeited to the
State. Prondsd, That the time for redemption
SHALL commence running from and after the
day on which the same became SO forfeited.
SIC. .. That section 81 of said act is hereby
amended so as TO read as follows:
Section 81. There shall hereafter be allowed
to The publishers of newspapers for advertising
the delinquent and forfeited lists of the several
counties of this State a sum not to exceed ten
cents for each description and whenever more
than one government subdivision or tract of
land, or town or city lot shall be included in a
single descriptive sentence, the same shall be
Geeined one description Prorsied, That on
ANA after the 1st of April in each year, the
county Auditor shall charge upon each tract
Oh lana, which he is required to advertise, the
cost OF said advertisement.
SEC & This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
approved March B. 1861. rm
AN All to extend the time for the cOnstruc-
I.on OF the Branch Road of the ST. Paul and
racine Railroad Company.
dc u " enacted By the Legislature Of The State of
C nnorloN l. The st. Paul and Pacific Railroad
va ~, IN no