Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-03
STATE OF MAINE.

Whereas the County Commissioners of the County
of Oxford, in the month of September A. ID. 1850.
made an inspection OF all the county roads duly
located and open for travel, lying in the unincor-
porated townships and tracts of land hereinafter
mentioned in said county. and uud and aijudged
the county roads therein detective; and thereupon
made an estimate Of the amount needed
in each of said townships, and tracts, TO put the
defective roads therein in repair, during the year
A. ID. lssl, that the same might be safe and con.
venient for public travel and Mt session
OF the September Term OF said Commits sioners'
Court, held in said county the nth day of Deem
ber 1850, said Commissioners 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
timated sums which they deemed necessary, for
making said repairs on the roads in each said
spectlve townships aud tracts exclusive of lands
reserved for public uses, and at the same time ap-
pointed agents to superintend the expenditure of
said assessments said defective roads as the law
requires; who gave their respective bonds with
suret1es, approved by said to expend
the money faith ully, and to render 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 Townships
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. 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
d.te OF SAID assessment. And the said Commission
ers, on the fifteenth day of June A ID. 1881, made an
actual examination of said county roads, and there.
upon found and adudged that the respective owners
OF said townships and tracts OF land, so assessed had
not repaired 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 day of June, to
repair raid roads, and lawfully expended thereon,
within one year from the assessment, so much
OF said assessment as 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
han fun Ia, .tI
niteenfh day of June, and still do fail to pay the
several sums assessed on their respective townships
and tracts as aforesaid any part Thereof and tine
same now remain due, and unpaid, as certified to
this Office by the CouBty Commits afore said
as follows, viz: The rate being three mills the
dollar
Unknown, NV. oflot3 RI, 100 $500 80
Unknown Lots z.S4. IS, RIB, 1000 $40 $50
Ephraim s Henry Wright. Lots2 ~ "
In u l3 Range. & South
Samuel Eam mes. southwest anss half of '0o 240
Lot2 RS, & +. half of 3, RS, $50 $50 45
Now therefore, pursuant to Chapter g. Section IS,
Revised Statutes, notice is hereby given to the
ers proprietors and all interested In the above de-
scribed lands. that shall sell at public ancton and
convey by deed to the highest bidder, il such bidder
at SAID sale shall bid an amount not less than the
amount due on each said township and tract for the
tax, costs, and interest at 20 per cent. per
ahnun, from the time prescribed for the payment OF
such tax at the County lreasurers office IN Paris
O'Clock in the forenoon, so much OF each of said
townships and tracts Of land, so assessed afore-
said, on which said taxes, interest and lawful
charges shall then beunpaid, as shall be necessary
70 pay the several taxes thereon, respectively then
que, with Interest at the rate of 20 per cent. per
annum, from the fifteenth day of August A. ID. ISL,
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 unpaid, and
EMAIL not be as aforesaid sold will be forfeited said
county. The sale and conveyance of said lands and
forfeiture will be made subject in the owners, or
of q
redeem their respective interests within two years
from the day Of sale or forfeiture by payment to the
purchaser, or the County. the sum for which the
FORFEITED with interest at twenty per per
ana any sums subsequently paid for State and County
taxes thereon. GEO. II. WATKINS,
County Treasurer for Oxferd County.
County Treasurer's Oficel
Paris, April s, 1882. 3wI5