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several counties thereof, passed in the
year 1877, 1866, 1870 and 1871; shall
be exposed to sale, and sold for the
payment Of such taxes, and all penal.
ties, costs and charges thereon &C,
crued, on the first Monday in June
1872, and from day to day thereafter.
Sundays only excepted, until the
whole thereof shall be sold, at the
place or places, on tho terms and in
the manner hereinafter proyided; such
sale shall be by the County Treasurer
of each county, at the county seat
who shall expose and offer the SAID
land at public sale, to be sold and con
veyed in fee simple without any right
Of redemption tor the payment there:
of: If no person shall at said sale
offer to purchase or take less guam
tity of the land so charged and offered
than the whole thereof, at and fol
the amount so charged, for the taxes
penalties, costs and charges the said
County Treasurer shall declare thai
the State is the purchaser thereof al
and for the amount SO charged, and
1thereupon the State shall. become in,
vested in fee simple with the titles tc
said lands, and the appurtenances
and all the improvements thereon
If at said sale any person shall pub
lirly offer to tako less portion than
the whole Of said lands, for the said
taxes, penalties, costs and charges
then the said lands shall be Sold to
such person as shall offer to take the
smallest portion thereof, and pay the
same; and upon the payment Of the
amount so due to said County Treas.
urer, said officer shall execute and dc,
liver to the said purchaser certif-
cate setting forth the fact of sue.
purchase, and the. payment Of the
amount bid; and thereupon the said
purchaser shall be. entitled 10 the
grant from the State of the State of
the undivided right, title or interest,
in fee simple without redemption in
and to all the lands so sold, and all
lands belonging to any person or per-
sons, or corporation, against whom
such tax was levied and assessed,
equal to tho proportion which the
amount bid hods TO the whole Of said
lands so purchased and the purchas-
er shall be entitled to demand parti
ton thereof according to law, and on
such partition the said purchaser shall
be entitled to proportional share and
interest in all the improvements
thereon. In addition to the sums
now assessed and chargeable upon
said lands, there shall be added at the
time Of said sale five per ccntum Of
the amount Of said taxes, penalties,
costs and charges, which said sum is
hereby appropriated for the expense
of said sale, and the collection Of the
collection of the moneys thereon
.One-half of one per cent. to be for the
use Of the county, and tho balance to
DC paid into the State Treasury. II
any person to whom such lands shall
be struck off shall fail forthwith to
pay the amount bid therefor said
County Treasurer shall Immediately
expose and offer such lands for resale
as if no such previous sale had taken
place. The County Treasurer shall
make weekly remittances Of all funds
received according to tho provisions
of this act to the State Treasurer,
and shall forward. monthly accounts
for said funds to tho State Treasurer.
SEC. 5. 1t shall be the duty Of the
Governor to cause this act to be pub
lishcd in such manner as shall i'll his
Judgment be requisite to give full in
formation thereof, the expense ofsaid
publication to be paid or reimbursed
out of the funds authorized hereby to
be charged as the expenses Of said
sale. i.
Sec. 6. 1t shall be tho duty of each
County Auditor Of each county to
exhibit the tax books thereof showing
all delinquent taxes herein provided
for, for sixty days next preceding such
sale, and all persons shall bo entitled
to-inspcct the same between the hours
Of 7 o'clock A. NJ. ard l2 NJ. each day
Sundays excepted, and it Shall Lc his
duty 10 attend said sale with the said
tax books and to furnish to said
County Treasurer, and all persons re-
quiring the same, such information as
the records Of his office may afford
relative to the matters involved in
said sale, and upon the delivery of the
Treasurcr's certificate of sale, TO- exc
cute deed in accordance with section
33, chapter l3, title 2, of the general
statutes of South Carolina. es.
SEC. 7. That this act shall take
effect from and Immediately after its
passage, and that all acts or parts Of
acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this act be, and the same are here
by repealed. ...'
p rovcd March u, 1872.
JOINT RESOLUTION to Authorize
the County Commissioners Of Ab
beville County to Levy aud Col!cc,
an Additional Tax Of Two Mills or
tho Dollar.
Be it resolved by the Senate anC