The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-04-26

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shall ever be recognized allowed as levee
debt intended to be liquidated by the said Acts
nor shall any levee bonds be issued threfor
but all such claims shall be, and the same are
hereby barred and prescribed.
Sec. 6. Be 1t further enacted That all lands
lying within the levee district, created by an
Act of the Legislature of this State entitled an
Act to aid in repairing and perfecting the levee
of the Mississippi river in the counties of De-
Soto, Tunica, Coahoma, Bolivar, Washington
and Issaquena, approved December I'd, 1853,
and the said Act approved February 18th,
1867, and recited in the fifth section of this Act
which have been heretofore struck off or sold
/ to the State, iquidating levee boards, or
commissioner thereof, or to the levee boards of
either districts, number one number two,
under the provisions of any revenue law of this
! State or of any levee law, and which are now
held or claimed by the State, or by any one of
said levee boards, or commissioners, under any
tax sale or forfeiture, may be redeemed at any
time prior to the 1st day of November, 1876,
without payment Of any interest, costs or dam
ages, at the office of the Auditor of Public ,Ac-
counts, by the payment on the part of the
owner, or any person interested therein, in the
! liquidating levee bonds, scrip surplusage
certificates, heretofore issued by the liquida-
| ting leVee commissioners commissioner, or
which may hereafter be issued under the pro-
visions Of this act, Of all State, county, school
! levee or other tax, dollar for dollar; Procided,
That where any of said lands sought to be re
deemed are situated in district number one,
created by an act entitled act to redeem
and protect from overflow from river Missis
sippi, certain bottom lands herein described
approved, March II, 1871; the Auditor shall
require the person offering to redeem the
same to pay the levee tax due to district num-
Der one in the bonds or coupons of said district,
and all other taxes due upon said lands, either
in the bonds or coupons of said district number
oi1 iIofi,,
certificates as the person redeeming may
choose. Pr0Ulded, That when any of said
lands are situated in Bolivar or Washington
counties, the person offering to redeem shall
be required to pay two-thrds of the ten cents
tax and the levee construction tax due upon
said lands for the years 1874 and 1875, in cur
rency, and may pay other and balances of
taxes which have accrued upon said lands up
to and inclusive of the taxes of 1875, in said
iquidating 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 hereinbefore provided,
shall be paid as other State and county taxes
Provided further, That the Auditors commits
sions upon lands, purchased or redeemed from
him, shall be paid in currency, but that no part
Of the liquidating levee tax shall be paid in
currency.
SEC. Z. Be 1t further enacted, That after
the first day of November, 1876, and before the
y
and dispose of such lands, to any person desi-
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 Liouida
ting or other levee bonds, coupons, scrip or
certificates received by the Auditor under this
Act shall be paid to the Treasurer of the State
and shall be by him cancelled; and said Treas
urer shall, on or before the first day of Febru
airy, 1877 and 1875 make out and transmit TO
the Governor of the State detailed statement,
in writing, showing the number and amounts
of all levee bonds, coupons, scrip and certif |
Gates received and Cancelled by him; PrOyideG |
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 Issaqueua counties.
approved November o. 1865, and now com |
monty known as 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 q |
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 Inv
him under this Act and ProyiIeI filrtZer.
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
quired to be paid in.
- 6NUCCGUs
Auditor OF Public Accounts shall include in
one deed all the lands purchased by anv one
person, and all deeds made by the said Auditor
under the provisions of this Act shall be ,y;a1o
tacae evidence of paramount title, and no suit
or action shall be brought in any court of this
State, to yacate 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 bv 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
SEC 8. Be 1t further enacted, That no suit
Ia la" or equity may be maintained against
the purchaser of said lands from the And;tor
although the same may be brought within
twelve months after the date of the deed
unless the parties bringing such suit bring into