The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-04-09

The People Of the State Of Florida,
represented in Senate and ASSEM-.
bly,, do enact as tolyo,os:
SECTION l. An act entitled An
Act to provide for the Redemption
of Lands sold for Taxes, approved
March I ,A.D. 1877, is shereby repealed.
SEC 2. All lands heretofore sold
for taxes, and bought by the State or
any county, which were not redeemed
on or before the first day of January,
A. D. 1879, sold or advertised for
sale prior to the 18th OF February,
A. D. 1879, in some newspaper, in
compliance with section of an act
to provide for the redemption of
lands sold for taxes, approved March
7, 1877, shall be certified TO and
recorded i'll the office of the Com
missioner Of Lands and Immigration
within three months after the pas
sage of this act.
SEC. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the
Commissioner of Lands and Imml-
grafton, as soon as the list of said
lands shall have been recorded in his
office, to advertise in one newspaper
published in each judicial circuit, the
fact that such lands are subject to
redemption during the years A. d.
1879 and 1880.
SEC. 4. All persons whose lands
have been sold for taxes and pur-
chased by the State or any county,
shall be authorized and allowed to
redeem the same upon payment of
the several assessments for which
such sales were made, and upon pay
ment also of the amount of the last
assessment made on said lands for
each year that such persons have
been in the use and occupation Of the
same, and have not paid the annual
tax thereon; provided, that such
lands shall not have been transferred
at the time of the passage ofthis act !;
and, pro0ided further, that such re-
demption under this act shall be
made prior to the first day of Jan
uarY. A. D. 1881.
such lands the Commissioner of
Lands and Immigration shall receive
in payment such warrants or scrip
as are receivable in payment of State
taxes proper; pro0idJed, that for so
much interest in such lands as is
owned by any county in consequence
of its purchase of any such lands, the
Commissioner of Lands and Immi-
grafton shall receive such warrants
or scrip as is outstanding and unpaid;
and where there are no warrants or
county scrip Of any county outstand-
ing and unpaid, the redemption shall
be made in currency.
SEC. 6. Immediately after the first
day of January, 1881, the Commits
sioner of Lands and immigration
shall advertise the full list of such
land then unredeemed for four
weeks, in some newspaper published
in the city OF Tallahassee; and shall
also advertise four weeks in news
paper published in the county in
which any Of said lands are situated,
a list of all such lands lying within
said county and if there be no news
paper published in any county in
which any of said lands are situated,
then such lands shall be advertised
in some newspaper published in the
judicial circuit in which such county
is situated. The lands so advertised
as aforesaid, and not redeemed, shall,
on and after the first day of March,
1881, be subject to private entry at
the office of the Commissioner of
Lands and immigration for the
amount of taxes and costs which had
accrued up to the first day of JAN
uary, 1881, and the cost of advertis-
ing the same.
SEC. 7. The proceeds of such
sales of lands, when on account of
the State, shall be paid into the State
Treasury; and when on account OF
the county, shall be paid into the
county treasury; but the expenses of
advertisement and sale of such lands
should be paid first out of the pro-
ceeds thereof.
Sec. s. This act shall not be co.,
strued to apply to lands disposed of
under the provisions OF an act entitled
an act to'quiet' tax titles to lands, ap-
proved February q, 1872.