The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-12-06
SALE OF PROPERTY FOR TAXES

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i The Tax Collector of this parish
has shown great leniency toward the
property holders in the matter Of
granting time for the payment of THEN
taxes, and up to the first of the pres
ent month peremptory proceedings
to enforce collection had not been in
stituted in single instance. The
general scarcity of money was taken
into consideration, and opportunity
given the people to realize from the
sale of cotton and sugar, but the time
for closing the tax rolls and making
final settlement is too near at hand
to warrant the Collector in allowing
further extension of time to those who
have been either unable or unwilling
to pay in the long delay that has al
ready been granted.
The Auditor of Public Accounts has
stated that any Collector bringing in
large delinquent list will be recon-
mended for removal and some one ap-
pointed in his stead who can fulfil the
duties of the office. Delinquents will
therefore appreciate the necessity
which compells the Collector to take
rigorous steps to make a clean col
lection of taxes due the State.
All the property upon which the
State tax of 1872 is yet unpaid has
been seized, and will be offered for
sale at the Court House, on Saturday,
December Goth, 1873, at 10 o'clock A.
NJ, at public auction, and knocked
down to the highest bidders, without
benefit of appraisement, for cash.
The seizures are made under the
provisions of Act No. AZ of 1873, and
as all intending to purchase will de-
sire to be familiar with the proceed
ings, we append extracts from that
Act:
Section one says " That if taxes are
not paid within ten days after the
service of the written notice of the
Collector, he " may make a seizure of
such property by recording deserip-
ton of the same, with the amount due,
in the mortgage book of the parish,
where it is situated, and ON the fourth
day of such recordation shall proceed
to sell said property without legal
process to pay said tax and all law
full costs, after advertising ten days in
the official journal.
Section four provides that Tax
Collectors shall be and they are here
by authorized to give a title in the
name of the State of Louisiana to all
persons purchasing property sold in
pursuance of this act, and such title
shall be held in and recognized by all
courts of this State as valid in law for
which title the Tax Collector shall be
allowed fee of two dollars upon the
presentation of title so given to the
District Court or Parish Court it shall
be the duty of the Judge to order the
Sheriff to put such person in posses
sion of the property SO purchased by
him.
Section six says, " That all real es-
tate sold hereafter under the provi-
sions of this act shall be redeem
able by the owners thereof or their le-
gal authorized agents within six
months from the date of sale, upon
payment to the party purchas-
ing at the Tax Collectors sale of the
amount of the purchase money with
fifty per cent, additional and all costs;
after which time, If not redeemed, the
party SO purchasing may present the
Tax Collectors title of sale to the
Auditor of Public Accounts as evil
dence of such Tax Collectors sale, and
demand title to such property, and
the Auditor of Public Accounts shall
there-upon issue decd of sale with
complete and full title, in the name
OF the State of Louisiana, to the pur-
chaser under his seal of Office, which
deed shall vest the title completely
and fully in the said purchaser or his
heirs, for which services the Auditor
shall be entitled to fee of two dol
lars.
Section eight authorizes the Tax
Collector to bid property FOR the State
in all cases where the figure offered |