Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-01-03
Two important Bills that ID ecame
Laws at The Last Session OF


the Legislature
The first is bill to amend and
re-enaet Section Twelve Of Chapter
l2I Of the Code of West Virginia
concerning process and the order
of publication, and Is as follows:
Be IL enacted by the Legislature
Of Hest Virginia, That Section
Twelve Of Chapter l24 Of the Code
Is hereby amended and re enacted,
so as to read ~ follows:
"12. Every order Of publication
shall state briefly the object of the
suit, petition or other proceedings,
and shall require the defendant
against whon it is entered to APP
pear within iour weeks after the
date of the first publication
thereof, or the next rule day, {if
the case be d rule, and do what is
necessary to protect their interests.
II shall be published once Il week
for four successive weeks, in some
newspaper published in the county
in which the order is made or
directed, If one is so published,
unless the court in which the case
is. otherwise nruer; and ii no
newspaper FL published in the
county, then in such other news
paper rs the court may prescribe;
or If none b. 80 prescribed, as the
clerk may q rect: Procided, that
such order shall be deemed to have
been duly published, OH the day
O. the fourth publication thereof.
/ shalt also be posted at the front
{ or Of the court House Of the
county wherein the court is held,
ai least tweaty days before judg
u Mt or decree is rendered.
The next is known as Senate
l.Il No. 256, nj is a bill requiring
c, stain sales 10 be advertised in
newspaper, and is as follows:
Senate Bill No. 256, u bill re
curing certain sales to be adver-
tised in a newspaper
BE 10 enacted by the LegiSlatTeQ f
Nest Virginia:
/. That, whenever a court shall
hereafter decree the sale of real
estate, it shall prescribe in the
decree that such sale shall be adj.
vertised in some convenient news
paper by the commissions or
lerson appointed to make the sale.
1t shall always be advertised in a
Newspaper published in the county
if one be published therein. In
the advertisement the commits
sioner shall state the time, term
and place Of sale, together with n
description of the property to be
sold.
,. Within three months after
the sale of land for taxes, by the
several sherif's of the State, il the
lands, or any tracts or parts of
lands shall be bought by individ.
uals. the sheriff making the sale
shall add rs part of the expenses
OF the sale, IN eqgsi per centum
on the taxes due and for which
the lands were so sold, as will be
sufficient to pay the expenses of
advertising the full return of all
sale, made 20 individuals, for the
period of eight weeks; aud the
SAID sheriff shall, within said three
months, advertise the said full
returns of such sales in some con-
vcnient newspaper, and shall al
ways advertise in q newspaper in
the county, if one be published
therein, and shall specify in such
advertisement the time in which
the original owner will be entitled
to redeem, and beyond which the
right will cease.
3. Any sheriff or other officer,
proceeding to sell under a writ of
feFS .Jdcids oc UeHditioHi egpOndS,
il the property be Of thesvalue of
five hundred dollars, or more,
shall advertise the sale for the
time required by law, in some
newspaper, as in this act is re-
CURED.
4. This act shall be ii force from
its passage.
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