Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-06-01
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in any such case SHALL rpon conviction there,
of, be liable to the punishment and penalties
provided 10y the laws of the United States for
the crime of perjury, and shall moreover for
felt the sum Of tive hundred dollars.
Sec 13. And be it further enacted, That
purchasers at any sale, persons redeeming or
in whose behalf writs of possession may he
issued, shall pay to the board of tax commits
soners for their Use the sum of two dollars for
each certificate of sale, certificate OF rcdemp-
tion, or writ, delivered, provided that the
lees thus received, together with the salary of
the commissioners for any district, shall not
exceed the sum of four thousand dollars To
each OF said commissioners, and that anv ex
cess that may he received over that amount
snail be applied in payment of clerks OF other
persons employed 10y said commissioners i'm
pursuance OF this act. so far us may be neces.
sary, and the balance, if any, paid as the pro-
ceeds of the sales of lands sold by them are
required to be paid.
Sec. IA. Aud belt further enacted. That
any board of tax commissioners may employ
the requisite number of clerks, surveyors ami
assistants, who shall receive such compensa-
ton as the Secretary OF the Treasury may pre-
scribe; and that any clerk appointed 10y said
BOARD may be specially empowered 10y the said
Secretary to receive and collect MONEYS due
for direct taxes, and rents for lands leased,
" Poy 'iiStA ONci W the SllI DOalu. FRO
tadea, ho'eeper, That he first give security i'm
such SUM and with such conditions as the said
Secretary may direct, with sureties to be ap-
proved by him; and each tax commissioners
shall be held to have entered on the discharrs
OF his duties when he shall have given approy-
cd security, taken the required oath, received
his commission, and reported at the office Of
the Secretary of the Treasury for duty, unless
the said Secretary shall in any particular case
direct otherwise.
Sec. Is. And be il further enacted. That
where lands or tenements have been, or shalL
hereafter be, sold under the provisions of the
several acts OF Congress relating to the sale of
lands for direct taxes in insurrectionary dis
tricts, in tracts which, at the time Of sale.
were held by two or more freehold owners.
IN severalty, any one of these owners, being
otherwise entitled to redeem, shall be allow.
ed to redeem for the piece or parcel of land
held by him as freehold owner, as aforesaid:
on paying his proportional part of the tax.
penalty, costs, expenses, and interest-thc
'aid proportonable part to be ascertiined by
he said commissioners And it shall be op-
ional with the purchaser either to retain the
csiduc of the tract purchased, after redemp-
ION OF part, or to surrender his certificate
1t purchase to the commissioners, and receive
back from them the amount of the purchase
money paid, with interest; and In case be
hall elect to retain the piece or parcel unre-
ieemed, lac shall surrender his certificate for
he whole tract purchased, and the said board
hall issue a new certificate for the piece or
'ertihcate for the piece or parcel of land re-
aimed
Approved, March 3, 1865.