The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-23
Approved, July 90, 1866.
CHAP. CCXVI.

| An act to give certain Powers the Levy Court
of the of County Washington in the District of
| Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
| resentativcs of the Uuited States OF America in
Congress assembled, That in addition to the eX
listing remedy by distress, for the recovery oftaX
cs due to the ..ourt in the county of Washington,
real property in said county, outside the corpo-
! rate limits of Georgetown and Washington, on
which one years taxes shall be due and unpaid,
or so much thereof, not less than one acre,
(where the property on which the tax has accru-
cd is not less than that quantity,) as may be ne
cessary to pay any such taxes, with all legal costs
and charges arising thcretrom, may be sold at
public sale, to satisfy such taxes and expenses,
by the collector appointed by the levy court of
said county; Provided, That public notice be
given of the time and place of sale by advertising
once week for eight successive weeks i'll some
newspaper publish in the city of Washington, in
which advertisement shall be given sufficient
and definite description of he property selected
! for sale the name of the person to whom the
same is assessed, and the aggregate amount of
taxes dne on the property SO purchased by him,
her, or them, respectively, with the amount of
of sale, and shall pay the residue of the purchase
money within ten days after the expiration OF two
years from the day of sale, to the collector OR
other officer of the levy court authorized to re-
ceve the same, and the amount of such residue
shall be placed in the treasury of said court. sub
ject to the order af the original proprietor or pro
pretors of the peoperty sold, his, or their legal
representatives and the purchase or purchasers
of said property shall receive title thereto in
fee simple, by Decd under the hand of the prcsi-
dent af said levy court and its seal, which Shall
be deemed good and valid in law and equity:
Provided, nevertheless, That it within two years
from the day ofany such sale, or before such pur-
chaser purchasers shall have paid the residue,
if any, of the purchase-money as aforesaid, the
proprietor or propretors of any property sold as
aforesaid, his her, or their agents. or legal rep
resentatives, shall repay to such purchaser or
purchasers the money paid for taxes and eXpen-
ses as aforesaid, together with ten per centum
per annum as interest thereon, or make tender
thereof, or deposit the same with the treasurer of
other officer authorized to receive the same, for
the use of such purchaser or purchasers, and sub
ject to his or their order, he she they shall be
reinstated in his, her, or their original right and
title, as if no such sale had been made and if
any purchaser shall fail to pay the residue OF the
pnrchase-money as aforesaid within the time re-
quired as aforesaid, for any property so purcha-
sed by him, he shall pay ten per centum per an
mum, interest thereon, in addition 10 such res
idue from the expiration of the two years as
aforesaid, until the actual payment of such resi-
due and the receiving of conveyance as afore-
said, and said interest shall alike be subject to
the order of the original proprietor or proprle-
tors the residue Of the purchase money afore-
said Provided also, That no sale shall be made
OF any improved property in pursuance OF TINS
section, whereon there is personal property OF
sufficient value to pay taxes, nor OF such impro,
we'd property whereOn there is not such personal
property, until the collector shall first hle
sworn return with the clerk of said levy court
that there is no such personal property, which
return shall be prima facie proof of that fact;
and that minors, mortgages, and others having