The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-10-31
LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE
70 Parties Owning Lands in the Liqu;-
dating Levee District.
JOSHUA GREEN,
vs.. In Chaurarv
W. H. GIBBS Err Al.


VI GIBBS. Er Al.
FIRST DISTRICT, HINDs COUNTY, STATE or
MISSISSIPPI, AT JACKSON.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That this cause came
on this day TO be heas d on motion for interlo-
cutory decree, etc, upsn the bill. answer, ex-
hIUits and pro co1Jesso entered hefNin, and the
Court, being thereof sufficiently advised BY
consent of parties, doth order, adjudge aud
decree, that the defendants, Gibbs and Hem
mingway, Auditor and Treasurer, as eI-o6ieio
LiquIdating Leyee Commissioners, and pro
hdc uiee Commissioners of this Court be. and
they are hereby directed, empowered aud au-
thorized, until the first day of December next,
10 permit the former owners of the lands inclu-
ded in the schedule exhibited with their answer,
to purchase, by way of redeeming same, By
the payment OF all the arrearages, of Liquida-
ting Levee taxes due thereon, shown By said
EXHIBIT, and al such tax may accrue there
In hereafter. in the scrip, bonds or evidences
OF debt issued under the act of February 18th
1867, referred to In the compliments bill and
acts amenda DRY thereof. together with the
commissions of five per centum on the amount
of such taxes, and two dollars ard fifty cents
for each deed certificate of redemption, to
be paid in currency.
The said Commissioners will retain three
ffths of sums collected for commissions, 10 be
equally divided between them, one-half there
OF to be paid 10 each, and will hold two-hfihs
for the payment Of the costs that have accrued
or may accrue in this cause.
creed, that the said Auditor and Treas urer as
eL-0fFc1o LIquidating Levee Commissioners,
| and Commissioners of this Court, from and
after the said first day of December next, and
| until the further order of this Court, be, and
they are hereby authorized, directed and re-
| CURED 10 sell and dispose of any OF the lands
embraced in said schedule and exhibit, which
| shall then remain undisposeG of, for such price
and sum, not less than all the Liquidating Lee
wee Taxes due and in arrears thereon, as in
| their discretion may be to the best interest of
| the parties ID this suit, taking in payment
| thereof currency, or the bonds scrip, or evil
dences of debt included in this proceeding
and exhibited in this cause, or which MAJ
| hereafter be filed and exhibited herein, To the
extent of ninety-hye per cent. of the purchase
money, and five per centum thereof in curren-
cy of the United States, and will exact in adj
dItlon, from the purchasers, commissions on
| the sales at five per centum, and two dollars
| and fifty cents tor each deed or certificate, TO
| be paid in currency. They viii ma Ike mont Il Y
| reports to this Court, showing the lands sold,
| TO whom, and when sold, fer what amount in
| currency, or scrip, or bonds sold, and the num-
| Der, date and amount OF levee .onds in scrip
taken up by them. They wilI cancel all such
| bonds, scrip or evidences of debt taken up by
them as aforesaid as of the day of its receipt
| and return the same with their reports. They
w ii proceed without delay to tabulate aud ar
range lists of lands included in said schedule
| and exhibit according to the counties in win oh
| they are situate with 1.-THE muniments of title
connected Herewith, so numbered by letter OIL
|
and will deliver said muniments of title 10 the
purchasers whenever the same can be propcrly
done. They will take steps to have all the
deeds, conveying said lands to them or their
predecessors in ofcee recorded in the proper
counties where the same has not been done, and
viii pay the costs of such registration, out #
any moneys in their hands realized by sale
of said la uds They will give the greatest pub
licity to this proceeding, and the scope anc
extent of this decree, by circulars and notices
in several of the leading newspapers in thi;
State, and will pay the costs OF the same GU
of money arising from sales of lands. They
will strike from said list schedule of al
lands which are improperly included therein
and execute to the owners, deeds of release
tn reto on their paying two dollars and fifty
cents for the cost of said conveyance. They
may employ agents in several counties inclu
ded in the Leyee District, created by the saiC
Act of 1867. to ascertain the value of sale
lands, and the nature of the titles thereto anC
TO aid in the sale of such lands, well tn,
taking possession thereof, and leasing the
same, and may agree upon the compensation
to be paid said agents, out of the proceeds o
sale of the lands disposed of by through
them, not to exceed five per centum of tho
same, but the said compensation shall wholly
depend upon the actual sales of land, and il
no event be absolute.
Ordered, adjudged and decreed, this 28tb day
of September, A. ID. 1877.
E. G. PEYTON, [sEAL.J
Chancellor,