The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-25
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STATEOF MISSISSIPPI
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
OF THE

AN ACT for the relief of the taxpayers o.
the State, and for other purposes.
SECTION Be it enacted by the Legis-
lature of the State of Mississippi, That Tax
Collectors are hereby authorized and re-
! qured to continue to collect and receive
the taxes for the fiscal year 1875, without
costs or damages, until the second Monday
| in February. 1876; and no damages for fail
ure to pay such taxes within the time pre-
scribed by law, shall be required of any
taxpayer; and if any such damages she'll
have been collected by any Tax Collector,
he shall refund the same to the taxpayer
| upon demand: Provided, such damages
] have not, before demand, been paid into
the State or County Treasury.
SEC 2 Be it further enacted, That after
the second Monday in February 1876, the
Tax Collector shall advertise all lands de-
linQuent for taxes for the fiscal year 1875,
as required in Section 1897, of the Revised
Code of 1871, with the following exceptions,
viz: That TWO insertions of such advertise
ment in news paper, or two weeks notice
by posting shall be legal notice, and only
the total tax due shall be specified, and not
the State and County tax separately. And
on the second Monday in March, 1876, if
the taxes shall remain unpaid, and no suffi
cient personal property can be found on
which 20 levy the same, the collector shall
proceed to sell the said land in the manner
prescribed in the Section of the Code afore-
said; Provided, That lands that haYe been
heretofore advertised and SOldAccording to
law for the taxes delinquent for 1875, shall
not again be sold under the provisions of
this Act, unless specially directed by law.
SEC. B. Be it further enacted, That the
owner or any person interested in said
lands, sold under the provisions of this
Act, or which have been heretofore sold for |
taxes OF 1870 may redeem the same at any
time before the first Monday in January, |
1917, by paying the amount for which such |
lands We're sold, with interest, at the rate o f |
twenty-five per cent. per annum from the |
first Monday in january, 1876, and all costs
ana charges thereon, and by complying
with any additional requirements hereafter
by the Legislature; Prooided, That
where lands shall have been sold to the
State for taxes on the first Monday in Jan
uary, 1876, and days following, the owner
Or any person interested in said lands NAV
redeem the same at any time before the
second Monday IN March, 1876, by paying
ne amount of taxes due on said lands, and
Ill costs and charges without interest.
SEC. f. Be it further enacted, That Tax
collectors shall receive the fees now allow
"a by law, for all tax deeds executed to in
llVldual purchasers at tax sales, but no fee !
hall be allowed for deeds made to the State I
or the year 1879, or any future year; nor I
or advertising lands forfeited to the State $
or snail any allowance be made to any Tax '
'ollector for taxes on State lands, except I
S'Sh VIC IdAce nave not been =
aid, list of which shall be made out and S
worn to before the Chancery Clerk of the v
ouhty In which said lands lie and the Aud Il
or OF Hubl lc Accounts is prohibited from Il
taking such allowances, except upon lists tl
sworn TO and verified by the records in b
is Office. 10 ~ a,
SEC D. Be it further enacted, That tbe Id
udltor OF Public Accounts shall not make ,
hai settlement with any Tax Collector. u
hCii exhibition and examination of such u
oliectors cash book, required by law TO
: kept. the entries on which shall he veri-
ed Dy the oath of such Collector. reco dad
said cash book. a
SEC 6. Be it further enacted. That tbe
uuICor OF Public Accounts is hereby nro-
Dited from issuing any warrant 70 any I'm
IA oollector Tor taxes overpaid; OF from ch
SUNG any warrant for any purpose what m
eI, except on specific appropriations ia
ade by law, setting forth the amount an oh
oprlated, and for what purpose: or from iof
Jung any warrant under any annual or RI,
eGehded annual appropriation heretofore he
Tue OF oy virtue of any act directing or
issuance of warrants for certain mr. m.
SEES, unless specified amount shall have mi
eh appropriated and set aside for snch Iv
rpose, Sufhclent amount of which is nm f9I
pehued 10 pay any warrant issued. HE
,EC. L. BE it further enacted That tbio no
take erect and be in force from and no,
er its passage. A an" pei
Approved January p. 1876. :