Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-10-22

pensr of the owner until a sale thereof,
unless the tax, penalty, interest due and
all costs and expenses be sooner paid.
He shall Immediately give notice OF the
time and place of sale Of property dis
trained by posting written or printed no
tees thereof in their public places in the
county, one of which shall be ut the place
of the sale. The time to be stated in the
notice shall be not less than five nor more
than ten days from the taking, but he may
adjourn the sale from day to day for pc
riOd not exceeding three days and shall ad.
jOurn at least once when there are no bid,
ders and in case of an adjournment he
shall post Il notice thereof at the place of
sale. The property shall be sold to the
highest bidder for cash"
Evidently, judging from Mr.. Bloom
fields letter. the Grand Jury got the i'm
preston "that proper care and caution
had not been exercised" from him, as he
intimates to me that the county had no
right to bid, and that should have ruled
Mr.. Henry's bid out, and adjourned
the sale even though all the property had
not been offered for sale. believe now,
as believed on the day of the sale, that
l could only offer for sale what property
would bring the taxes, interest and costs,
and if one handcar had brought the
amount it would have been all sufficient.
| believe also that the law is perfectly
plain, and when l had offered the whole
train of cars and engine, and Mr.. Frank
Henry bid the amount of taxes, penalty,
interest and costs, that l had no right to
s &~ti~. '.'ss<~ss,
mate bidder, and therefore | would not
receive his bid but as no person raised
his bid, had no right 10 offer any more
property or postpone the sale, for the oh.
ject sought, the collection of the taxes
and costs, had been accomplished and my
duty was to strike it off, receive the cash
and deliver the train to him; and would
say to Mr.. Bloomfield and the Grand Jury
that my position on atpoint is concurred
Ia by some Of tbs yesi iGsai (aicnt ia the
Territory.
Had Mr.. Bloomfeld's instructions to
me been to sell the property as Real Is
tate, then the section of law governing the
sale of real estate for taxes would have
been the one for my guidance and there
might have been some question as to
whether the county could bid, or in alb
sence of all bids, the property should be
"struck Off to the county. 1t seems to
me that, had the Grand Jury taken pains
to examine the law under which the sale
was made. and also in relation to the sale
of Real Estate for taxes, the first part of
the clause quoted at the beginning of this
article never would have been written;
also it they had considered which county
officers had anything to do with the assess
ment roll, their report would have been
considerably modified, and in place of the
Auditor, Treasurer, School Superintend-
ent and Probate Judge, all being covered
by their sweeping statement that "the
county officers" had or had not done so
and SO, those officers who had been care
less or culpable in their neglect Of duty
would have been pointed out squarely
without fear or favor and had to suffer
accordingly.
]. II. MUNSON,
Treasurer Of Wurston County.