Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-07-24
City Marshal.

SEC. s.-All sales of personal proper
ty for delinquent taxes shall be at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash, and
in case there are no bidders the marshal
may adjourn the sale from day to day not
exceeding M week, giving notice thereof
at the place of sale. Any surplus remain
ing over after payment of the taxes, in
terest thereon, and cost of collection, shall
posting it with the treasurer of said city
to his credit, and no more of such prop
erty shall be sold thar shall be necessary
to pay said taxes, interest and costs.
SEC. 10,-On the first day OF January
next succeeding the levy of any annual
city tax, the same if unpaid, shall become
and be deemed delinquent and shall be
charged with interest at the rate of ten
per cent per annum from the date of such
delinquency. If any tax on any real
estate in said city, together with the in
tercst due theron Is not paid before the
first day Of May next after the same has
become delinquent, the treasurer shall
proceed to collect the same together
with costs of sale by public sale of such
real estate.
SEC. 1.-THE treasurer shall give notice
of such sale by publication thereof at least
once a week for three consecutive weeks
in the month OF May preceding the sale of
such property IN the official paper of the
city, such notice to contain a notification
that all real estate, the taxes OH which
for the preceding year naming it are
then delinquent and unpaid viii be sold
to pay SAID taxes and all taxes delinquent
thereon and it shall specify the time and
place of sale, and contain a list of the real
~estateto be sold, and the amount of city
and school taxes due thereon, and on each
lot part OF lot or parcel OF real estate re-
spectfuly.
SEC. 12.-On the first Monday in June
in each year, between the hours of nine
o'clock a. m. and four o'clock p.sm. al
the court house in said city and county.
the highest bidder, all lots and parts OF
lots, lands, and real estate OF every de.
scrlption on which the city and school
taxes which shall have become delinquent
during the preceding fiscal year, and al
previous years still remain unpaid, auC
he may adjourn the sale from day TO day
until all the real estate so advertised shall
have been offered.
SEC. 13.-The person offering to pay
the amount of taxes due on any lot piece
or parcel of real estate so offered for sale
for the smallest portion of the same, is tt
be considered the highest bidder, an(
such portion shall be taken from the side
thereof, dividing such lot or parcel o
ground by a line running parallel will
the proper lines of such lot piece OF par
Gel OF real estate so as to give each por
ton a frontage. Should any person 81
bidding fail to pay the amount due thu
treasurer may again offer such real estat
for sale if the sale be not closed or b
may advertise it especially and with de
scription stated in the notice by on
notice written or printed and posted u
for ten days on the outside door of til
court house in said city and county @
; Yankton after which 1t may be sold a
public sale in manner as aforesaid.
SEC, l4.-On or before the first day c
July following the sale of any real estat
! as above provided, the treasurer shall fill
in the office of the city clerk a return of h
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= showing the lot, lots, pieces or parcels
: real estate sold, the m of the pur
chasers and the sums paid by each and fc
: each lot piece or parcel of real estate re
! spectively. He shall also file in sal
clerks Office a copy of the notice @
sale with q certificate OF the advertise
o ment OF notice verified by affidavit. TT
y descriptions of real estate in such return
: shall be entered in the same order as
the tax list.
: SEC 15-The purchaser Of any re'
u estate sold for delinquent city taxes, sha
= be entitled to a certificate in writir
= signed by the treasurer in his official C
, pacity, describing the lot piece or pare
: of real estate so sold and purchased al
- stating the sun paid therefor. and Il
time when the purchaser will be entitl,
"a to a deed thereof; which certificate sha
~ be assignab!e and said assignment mu
be acknowledged before some pers
&C having power TO take acknowledgment
Of deeds. The purchaser shall acquire
al. lien Of the tau on the real estate and