Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-06-28
The Delinquent Land sales.


the Democrat to say something about the Delin-
qucnt Land Sales last February, although he says
we "cannot provoke him to do anything, but says
what he says merely for our satisfaction. Thank
you, Squire, for tic condcscension.
DC admits that the sale was Illegal, not because
The notice was DIGESTIVE, but because il is impos-
sible for the officers to comply with the provisions
Ct the law. On this point &c says ",here has rev
Sr been legal sale Of delinquent lands for taxes
made in this State. owing to the complex and con-
traiirtory provisions Of the Statute" We give
his whole argument on this text to enable the read
er 70 Judge for himself as 10 i;s soundness:
-It imp-sbl- the -oers comply with the law
~ stands on the statute book the Sspreme Court
decided time and agl that sales cannot he sustained
unless requlrr~rt cf the law he strictly complied
TREASURER shat, and then and there
for the Of for which the
Treasurer stands charged end prescrrs the manner OF
making the settlement and what said dayeaeh 81 them
then and nv reference to the Law i
page AID Old VOL Gavin and Horis edition. of the
Satufes 1. will lnfrst that such settlement cannot
10 county like wects and
Vet actIay made in day the sale Of lands
mS<e as-r it will b. invalid This only one Of some
twenty provisions of the law TO lie fully
strictly complied with render sales legal hafOf
,-.t We have not heretofore alluded to this
possible good that could out of n
ne
public know there reasons th,n one why de-
lnqn~nf land TAX sales cannot be sustained
II the Supreme Court has decided time and
again as he Democrat affirm. that every provision
Of the revenue law must be strictly and literally
complied With, otherwise tax sales cannot be sus-
t.ned and If it be also true that the requirements
Of the law be complied with what is the use
Of any Of US paying taxes7 Would not such de-
cition destroy the government. We do not be-
lieve the Supreme Court has ever made such de-
cis:ou. though there is no saying what absurd de-
cisions Perkins and his associates may not have
made. There is q we'll settled Law maxim. We be-
iieve. upon which all Judges act xhose ermne is
unspotted by corruption. that "the law require
nothing impossible"-in other words that that
which il Is impossible to comply with is not the
Law. Would any sensible Judge decide in this
case that the law required the cn.ire settlement. to
be made in one day Certainly not. All that the
Law requires is that the settlements shall be com
msnced on the day designated anc completed as
sosn thereafter possible. and the argument OF
the Democrat on shis point is only designed to
throw dust In the peoples and direct their at
tention from the real point at issue. viz: the failure
70 publish the notice sufficient length Of time be
fore the sale. thereby invalidatng the sales ,ds
under It, and creating great confusion and loss 10
the county in consequence Of the blunder. This
requirement. at least, that the notice shall be pub
Nshed Jsus ,s~Ls before the sale. Ia not impossible
10 comply with, and the failure TO do 80 il fatal
blrnder. for which IL author should be held res
possible.
In conclusion the Democrat says:
As m IN. errors said committed In fhe pub
list by the Democrat have only this o
say: Th- CORRECTLY printed the pub
va- Andsor and that II published
before the Of the pub
Ii-hed nv the Republican Hadn't Mattngiy and FaIler
better disgnrge. or else keep sti?
The editor admits the list contained many err
ross - charged. The Auditor admitted TO US
that skere we're more than twenty FIVE mistakes in
the descriptions u is big falsehood he ut'ers.
however, When he say.. "The list was as correct
" printed a. vas the one published by our neigh
Dor fsw gears ago when Bro. Fuller was Audi
tor and that Il published "as long before the
day of sale as the one published by the RepubIi-
can" We never published a List that had one
tenth or one twentieth Part az m,ny vital errors as
the one contained that was last Published In the
Democrat, and as regards the latter part Of the
ssaasmcns it is totally false. We published the
List four different years, and find upon an e1ami-