The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-03-13

D on until the requisite amount is produced. ar
I such sale shall be continued from day to d.
"itnlh the hours prescribed for sheriff sal,
/, until completed; Procided. that no lane
! ! shalI be sold for taxes whereon any actu
settler shall reside. unless the said tax cole
Tor snail have first demanded payment OF til
taxes due thereon from each settler PERSONAL
} or by written application left at his residence
winch written application shall contain til
numbers OF the lands and the amount of take
uue and Tor such notice the said tax colectc
snail have one dollar to be collected as COS
with the taxes due; but no failure to max
such demand shall invalidate a sale for take
OF any land on which the taxes were not paiC
ana any sheriff failing to make the demand a
herein required, shall be liable on his oficia
BOND to the owner for all damages sustaine,
| by such failure
SEC. 40. Be 1t further enocted, That if upol
Offering all the land of any delinquent tax
payer no person will bid tor it the whole
/ amount of taxes and all costs, the collecto
| shall strike off the same to the State He shall
execute conveyances to individuals purchasing
| lands at such sales, and he shall on or before
the first Monday of April file with the clerk
OF the chancery court separate lists of the
lands sold to the State and to individuals. and
the amount OF tax and costs, specifying each
item of said cost for which the same was sold
which list shall be certified under his hand to
be correct; and said clerk shall record said
lists in a book kept for the record of tax
deeds, and a certified copy of such record
shall be evidence in all the courts of this
State, and shall, within ten days after the same
is filed, forward a certified copy of the list of
lands sold to the State, to the Auditor. to be
by him filed and registered in a book kept by
HIM for that purpose, and said list of lands
sold to the State shall be in lieu Of convey
ances, and shall vest title in the State to all
lands embraced in such list
SEC. Al. Be 1t FURTHER enacted, That the
collector shall be allowed an additional com
pensation of ten per cent. on all taxes collected
by him after the fifteenth day Of December,
to be collected from the delinquent taxpayer
by distress or otherwise; he shall also be al
lowed one dollar for every conveyance made
by him for lands sold to individuals for taxes
and one dollar for each distress and sale of
personal property, and one dollar for each de-
mand for poll or personal tax; the clerk of
the chancery court shall be entitled to twenty
five cents for taking and certifying the ac-
OF such conveyance. and ten
cents for every legal subdivision Of land con
tanned in the lists of land sold for recording
the same; and twenty cents for every legal
subdivision Of land advertised shall be allow
ed to the publisher of the newspaper for ad-
the same, which fee shall be charged
by the collector in the bill OF costs, and col
lected by him for the use of the person entitled
thereto. The Auditor shall also be entitled
to five cents for every legal subdivision Of land
contained in the list of land sold to the State
and registered by him. the fees herein allowed |
when the lands are sold to the State, except |
the fees for publication, shall not be paid by |
The State, nor shall any sheriff obtain credit |
or the same until the sale of the land by the |
State as hereinafter provided; that the fees |
allowed the publisher of a newspaper for adj |
7ertising the sale of land shall be allowed as |
1 credit to the sheriff in his settlement with |
he Auditor; Pr0yided, That all damages and
ees allowed the sheriff against delinquent |
taxpayers shall be cOllectable only out of the |
delinquent taxpayers, and never out of the |
State or county treasures, except for the pub
icatOn fees as above.
SEC ~. Be 1t further enacted, That con
made by a tax collector shall be in
he form to the effect following to-wit: l. a.
g., tax collector Of county, have this
lay according to law, sold the following lands
here being no other property found on which |
o levy and make the taxes due on said lands,
o-wit: there describe the land) for the taxes
assessed to the reputed owner thereof, for the
rear --, when G. f. became the best
bidder, at the sum of $: | therefore sell and
onvey said land to the said Q. F., his heirs
nd assigns forever. Given under my hand
he ID day --, A. D..
|, A. B., clerk of the chancery court of
county, certify that | have carefully
the assessment rolls and list of
ands advertised for nOn-payment of taxes for
he year IS, and found the lands in the
bove conveyance were assessed in the year
s., and were advertised in the ---,
published i'll ---, or by (here
i've mode of advertising if not in news
aper.) The clerk shall certify the above
acts and attach the seal of his office thereto,
Or which examination and certificate he shall
e entitled to demand and receive from the
urchaser the sum of twenty five cents, which
hall be included in the cost of sale, which
onyevance and list of lands sold to the State
lbject to the right of re-purchase, and con-
eyance as hereinafter provided, shall vest In
he purchaser, or the State, as the case may
e. perfect title to the land sold for taxes
nd no such conveyance or list as between the {
-iginal parties subsequent alienees, shall l
e invalidated, nor shall any defence be avail
bic against the title thus conveyed IN any
1urt of this State, except by proof that the
lxes for which said lands were sold had been
aid or rendered to the proper officer before 5
lie. or that the taxes were illegal in part,
nd that before sale the tax payer rendered to
Re proper officers the amount OF legal taxes
ne on said lands f
SEC. 43. Be 1t further enacted, That for the |
,coverv of the possession, and for the use and
,cuDation of the land sold for taxes under
,e provisions of this Act, and after the expl- S
.tion of the time allowed for epurchase, the {
urchaser at such sale, or when sold to the /
tate, the State or It's vendee, shall have the 5
,medv of unlawful detainer provided for t
chapter 10 of the Code OF 1871, and section S
$50 Of the Code of 1871. be and the same is c
ereby so amended to give the remedy OF c
nlawful detainer to the purchaser at any tax t
lie. and to the State or its vendee when 1t is t
lch purchaser, and against the person or per L
ms in possession of said lands so purchased a
'rocided, that said action shall be brought +