Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-04-18
Legal advertisements.
STATE Of MAINE.

whereas the County Commissioners of the Comfy
of Oxford, in the month of September A. d. 1850
made an inspection of sill the county roads duly
located and open for travel, lying In the unncor
porated townships and tracts of land hereir after
mentioned in said county, and uud and adjudped
the county roads therein defective; and ther,nnon
made an estimate of the amount neefed
in each of said townships, and tracts 10 put the
defective roads therein in repair, during the wear
A. ID. 1884, SO that the same might be safe aud CON
venent for public travel and adjourned session
of the September Term OF said Commits sioners,
Court, held in said county the 9th day of Decem
Der, lceO, said for the purpose raising
tax to repair said defective roads, the said re-
spective townships. and tracts, assessed upon said
respective townships and tracts the respective Ca
tiInated sums which they deemed necessary. for
making said repairs on the roads in each said re-
| spective townships and tracts exclusive of iands
| reserved for public uses, and at the same time an
pointed agents 10 superintend the expenditure Of
said assessments said defective roads as the law
requires; who gave their respective bonds with
sureties. approved by said Commissioners, to expend
the money faith uy, aud to render account thereof
on demand the said respective estimated sums in
each said townships and tracts which they deemed
necessary for making said repairs, Is hereinafter
stated; and the said Commission ers, after making
said assessment, published list of said townsbins
and tracts of land aforesaid assessed, with the
sums assessed on each, and the said roads on which
the same was to be expended, in the Kennebec
Journal the State paper. printed at Augusta State
of Maine, and in the Oxford Democrat, a public
newspaper printed at Paris in said county OF Oxford
three weeks successfully in EACH the last publication
in each being within three months from the said
ers, on the fifteenth day of June A. d. ISL made an
actual examination of said county roads, and there
upon found and adjudged that the respective owners
of said townships aud tracts Of land, had
not rep tired the said roads In their respective town
ships and tracts of land their acceptance and as
the law requires. and thereupon said agents proceed
ed Immediately after said fifteenth dav of June IN
repair said roads, and lawfully expended thereon,
within one year from the same assessment, so much
of said assessment as was necessary put said roads
in such repair that the thereby made safe
and convenient for public travel; and the several
owners of the following said townships and tracts
have failed for more than Two months since said
fifteenth day of June, and still do fail pay the
several sums assessed on their respective townships
and tracts as aforesaid. or any part thereof, and the
same now remain due, and unpaid, certified to
this Office by the County Commissioners, AZORES
as follows, viz The rate being three mills the
dollar
owners. Description. No. acres Value. Tax
Unknown, NV. of lots RI. 100 $500 90
Unknown, Lots ?, "a. as, R.3, 1000 600 $50
Ephraim Henry Wright, Lots2
in II & IL Range, & South
of in 18th Range, 500 500 2o
Samuel Eames, southwest half of
Lot K. &, 4 +. half of 3, RS, $50 $50 As
Now, therefore, pursuant to Chapter 6, Section IS,
Revised Statutes, notice is hereby given to the
ers, propretors and all interested in the above de
scribed lands that shall sell public anction and
convey by deed TO the highest bidder, il such bidder
| at said sale shall bid amount not less than the
amount due each said township and tract, for the
| tax, costs, and interest at 20 per cent. per
annum from the time prescribed for the payment OF
such tax. at the County Ireasurers office in Paris
in said County, the third day of June next ten
O'Clock in the forenoon, so much of each of said
townships and tracts of land, assessed afore.
| said, on which said taxes, interest and lawful
charges shall then be unpaid as shall be necessary
to pay the several taxes thereon respectively, then
due, with interest at the rate of 20 per per
annum, from the fifteenth day of August A. D. 1851,
to said day OF sale. and legal costs, and all of said
townships and tracts of land, which said taxes,
interest and costs shall then remain unpaid, and
shall not be aforesaid sold will be forfeited said
County. The sale and conveyance of said lands and
forfeiture will be made subject in the owners,
redeem their respective interests within two years
from the day OF sale forfeiture by payment TO the
purchaser, or the County, the sum for which the
respective townships and tracts sold, became
forfeited with interest at twenty per cent per
and any sG.ns subsequently paid for State and County
taxes thereon. GEO. ii. WATKINS,
County Treasurer for Oxfsrd County.
County Treasurer's Office,
Paris, April S, 1882. 3wl5