The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-05-03

created by an act entitled an act TO TeueeAn
and protect from overflow from nVer Missls
sippi. certain bottom lands herein described,
approved, March II, 1871, the Audltor snaii
require the person offering to redeem the
same to paw the levee tax due to district num-
Der one in the bonds or coupons OF sad district'
and all other taxes due upon said LANDS, ellneI
in the bonds or coupons of said district numoer
one or in said liquidating leyee bonds scrip OF
certificates as the person redeemlng may
choose. Provided, That when any OF salu
| lands are situated in Bolivar or Washington
counties, the person offering to redeem shaii
be required to pay two thirds OF the ten cents
tax and the levee construction tax, due upon
said lands for the years 1874 and 1919, IN cur
ency. and may pay all other and the balance OF
taxes which have accrued upon said lands up
to and inclusive of the taxes of 1915, In SAID
liquidating levee bonds, scrip or certificates
and provided that the State and county taxes
of the years in which the lands may be re
deemed or purchased as herelnbeiore PROVIDED
| shall be paid as other State and county taxes,
! Pr0ri1ed further That the Auditors commits
sions upon lands, purchased or redeemed from
him, shall be paid in currency, but that no part
of the liqudating levee tax shall\ be paid in
currency.
SEC l. Be 1t further enacted, That after
the first day of November, 1876, and before the
first day oil January, 1873, the Auditor may sell
and dispose of such lands, to any persons desl-
ring to purchase The same, on the same terms
as are provided for the redemption thereof in
the sixth section of this Act, and all Liquida-
ting or other levee bonds, coupons scrip or
certificates received by the Auditor under this
Act, shall be paid to the Treasurer of he State,
and shall be by him cancelled; and said Treas
urer SHALL on or before the first day of Febru
ary 1877 and 1878, make out and transmit TO
the Governor of the State detailed statement,
in writing, showing the numbers and amounts
Of all levee bonds, coupons, scrip and certltl
4 lid Ixvh yaCJ
That when any lands lying in the district or
territory included by an Act entitled an Act to
incorporate the Board of Levee Commissioners
for Bolivar Washington and Issaquena counties,
approved November 81, 1865, and now com
monty known District Number Two, shall
be redeemed or purchased under this Act, the
State Treasurer shall cancel all the bonds or
coupons Of said District Number Two, which
he may receive and report the same, giving
detailed statement of number and amount to
the treasurer Of said levee board of District
Number Two, and shall also account to said
levee treasurer for all currency received by
him under this Act and Prorided, further,
That the taxes due the State and counties for
the fiscal years 1876 and 1877, on any Of said
redemptions and sales, shall be paid in such
funds as other State and county taxes are re
CURED TO be paid in.
SEC. s. Be 1t further enacted, That the
Auditor of Public Accounts shall include in
one deed all the lands purchased by any one
person, and all deeds made by the said Auditor
under the provisions of this Act, shall be prlmaa
fdcie evidence of paramount title, and no suit
or action shall be brought in any court of this
State, to vacate or impeach any such deed, or
to maintain any title or deed antagonistic
thereto, unless the same shall be brought
within one year next after the date of such
Auditors deed; and after the expiration of
one year from the date of such Auditors deed,
the same shall be held and deemed by all the
courts of the State to be conclusive evidence
of paramount title, and upon which actions OF
ejectment and all possessory actions, may be
maintained
SEC. 8. Be 1t further enacted, That no suit
in law or equity may be maintained against
the purchaser of said lands from the Auditor
although the same may be brought within
twelve months after the date of the deed
unless the parties bringing such suit bring into
court and tender with his bill or declaration
the same amount in United States currency
which the purchaser had paid in levee bonds
dollar for dollar, which sum rendered shall re
main in the courts to be paid to the de-
PENDANTS in the suit shall be decided
against him; Procided, That the provisions
of this section shall not apply to any plaintiff
complainant who can show that the taxes
for which said land was Sold were, in fact
paid, and that said land was enormously
sold; Progt1ed, further, That no part of
the liquidating levee tax shall hereafter be
payable in currency, to the exclusion of liz
uidating levee bonds, scrip certificates, but
the Auditors commissions upon lands pur-
chased or redeemed from him under the provi-
sions of this Act, shall only be paid in cur
rency.
SEC. 10. Be 1t further enacted, That the
Auditor shall have the same power hereto
tofore conferred by law upon the liqudating
levee commissioner to issue surplusage cert. |
fcates for liquidating levee bonds, on the bonds
of district number one, and such certificates |
sh all be signed by him as Auditor and Levee
commissioner, and for the issuance of each such |
certificate, he will receive twenty five cents in
currency, and no more.
Sec. IL. Be 1t further enacted, That hereafter
any persons desiring to pay State, county and
schooltax upon any tract or parcel of land, lying
in any evee district, may do so, whether the
levee tax shall be paid or not, and in all cases
hereafter, where lands shall be forfeited in anv
levee district, for the On.payment of State
county and school tax and levee tax, said de
linquent land shall be struck off to the State
and not to the levee board, and the redemp-
ton when made shall be from the State, and
the Auditor shall collect and account for the
evee tax, so received by him.
SEC. II. Be 1t further enacted, That the
fiscal year of each and every levee board in
this State, of every sort whatever, shall com
mence and end with the fiscal year of the
State as the same may be established by law.
Sec ID. Be 1t further enacted That if anv
Of the lands mentioned in this act, shall not be
or purchased as herein provided for
on or before the first day of January, 1878.onol
further time for redemption shall be allowed
and the title thereto shall be vested in the
State of Mississippi, and no action in law or
auuitv shall ha maintained in opu oo,v4 |