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

Whereas the County Commissioners of the County
Of oxford, in the month Of September A. d. 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 T uud and adjudged
the county roads therein defective; 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 wear
A. D. 1881, so that the same might be safe and con.
venient for public travel and At session
of the September Term OF said Commits sioners'
Court held in said county on the 9th day OF Deem
ber $780, said Commissioners for the purpose raising
tax TO repair said defective roads, IN the said re.
spective townships and tracts, assessed upon said
resp cive townships and tracts the respective es
timated sums which they deemed necessary, for
making said repairs on the roads in each said re-
spective townships and tracts exclusive of lands
reserved for public uses, and the same time ap
pointed agents 10 superntend the expenditure of
said assessments on said defective roads as the law
requires; who gave their respective bonds with
sureties, approved by said Comns soners 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 hereinaf er
a.ed; 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 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 Paris in said county o' Oxford
three weeks successfully in each, the last publication
| in each being within three months from the said
ate of said assessment. And the said Commission.
ers the fifteenth day of June A. ID. ISL made an
actual examination of said county roads, and there.
upon found and adudged thai. this respective owners
of said townships aud tracts OF land, assessed had
not repared the said roads in their respective town.
ships and tracts of land, to their acceptance, and
the law requires and there said agents proceed
ed immediately after said fifteenth day of June TO
repair laid roads. and lawfully expended thereon
within one year from the same assessment, much
of said assessment necessary put said roads
in such repair that the same thereby made safe
| and convenient for public travel: and the several
Of .iu,y susl
| have failed for more than Two months since s4d
fifteenth day of June, and still do fail to pay tn,
several sums assessed on their respective townships
and tracts As aforesaid, or any part thereo and the
| same now remain due, and unpaid, certified 10
this Office by the Cousty Commissioners, resaid
as follows, viz; The rate being three mills the
dollar
| Owners Description. No. acres. Value. Tax
Unknown. n w. of lot3 RI, 100 500 60
Unknown, Lots a. as, RS, looo 500 $50
Ephram Henry WrighA Lots2 wv
| in II l3 Range. South
of , in nth Range, 30 500 30
Samuel Eames, southwest half of
| Lot2R.s, 4 +. half of3, RS $50 $50 10
Now, therefore, pursuant to Chapter e, Section 81
Revised Statutes, notice is hereby given TO the
ers, proprieors and all interested in the above de
scrbed lands. that shall sell at public anction, 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 ~ per cent. per
annum, from the time prescribed for the paymeat of
sucn TAX. al the County IreaSurers cfflcc III far1s
in said County, on the third day of June next, at ten
O'Clock in the forenoon much OF each of said
townships and tracts Of land, SO assessed atore
sad which said taxes, interest and lawful
charges shall then be unpaid, shall be necessary
to pay the several taxes thereon, respectively, then
due, with interest at the rate of ~ per cent. per
annum, from the fifteenth day of August A. ID. lsSl
to said day of sale, and legal costs, and all of said
townships and tracts of land, on which said taxes
| interest and costs shall then remain unpaid, and
shall not be aforesaid sid will be forfeited TO said
| County. The sale and conveyance of said lands and
| forfeiture will be made subject in the owners or
part owners or tenants in common of the same to
redeem their respective interests within two years
from the day OF sale forfeiture by payment TO the
purchaser, the County, the sum Tor which the
respective townships and tracts were sold, or became
forfeited with interest at twenty per cent pr annum
and any sums subsequently paid for state and County
| taxes thereon. GEO. ii. WATKINS,
County Treasurer for Oxford County.
| County Troasurer's Office,
Paris, April s, 1882. 3wl5