Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-02-25
taxes are q lien, will be sold at
DukIic auction.

taxes are lien, will be sold al
public auction.
i SECTION xxxvI.
The publication must be made
once q week, for three successive
weeks, In some newspaper or sup
plement thereto, published In said
city; the publication must desig.
nate the time and place Of sale
the time eff sale must not be lssi
than twsnty-oHe days Bor mere
than twenty-eight days from the
first publication, and the place oil
sale must be in trent of the City
Tax Collectors office.
SECTION XxxvII.
The City Tax Collector, as soon
az he has made the publication re-
CURED by section SO, must file with
the Clerk of the Council 8 copy of
the publication with ga affidavit
attached thereto that It is q true
copy of the same; that the publ
cation was made in q newspaper
or supplement thereto, stating it's
name and place of publication and
the date of each appearance, which
affidavit lie primary evidence Of all
the facts stated therein.
SECTION XXxvIII.
The City Tax Collector must col
lect, in addition to the taxes due
on the delinquent list and five per
csntum added thereto, fifty cents
on each lot, piece or tract of land
separately assessed and on each as.
sessment of personal property,
which amount must be paid into
the city treasury as the taxes are
PAID.
SECTION xxx.
On the day fixed for the sale, or
en- some subsequent day to which
he may have postponed il, Of
which he must give notice, the
City Tax Collector, between the
hours of ten O'Clock A. NJ. and three
P. M, must commence the sale of
the property advertised, com enc.
ing at the head Of the list and con-
tinuing alphabetically until COM
pleted. He may postpone the day
Of commencing the sale or the sale
from day to day, but the sale must
be completed within three weeks
from the day first fixed.
SECTION XII.
The owner or person in posses-
sion of any real estate offered for
sale for taxes due thereon may
designate la writing to the City
Tax Collector, prior to the sale,
what portion of the property he
wishes cold, il less than the whole;
but Ii the owner or possessor does
not, then the City Tax Collector
may designate it, aud the person
who will take the least quantity Of
the land or, In case an undivided
interest Is assessed, then the small.
est portion Of the interest and pay
the taxes and costs due, including
fifty cents to the City Tax Collector
for the duplicate certificate of sale,
Is the purchaser. But In case there
Is no purchaser in good faith fer
the same a. provided in this ordi-
nance on the first day that the
property is offered for sale, then
when the property is offered there
after for sale and there is no pur-
chaser ia good faith for the same,
the whole amount Of the property
assessed shall be struck of to the
city of Los Angeles as the purchas-
er andithe duplicate certificate de-
livered to the City Treasurer and
filed by him in his Office. Nc
charge shall be made for the dupli-
cate certificate when the city ia a
purchaser: and in such case the
City Tax Collector shall make an
entry, "sold to the city" on the de-
linquent list opposite the tax, and
he shall lie credited with the
amount thereof in his settlem ent
made pursuant to the provisions of
this ordinance.
SECTION XII.
II the purchaser does not pay the
taxes and costs before ten o'clock
A. M. of the following day, the
property, en- the next sale day be-
fore the regular sale, must be re-
sold for the taxes ana costs; the
bid of any person refusing to make
the payment for property purchas-
ed by him must not be received on
the sale Of any property advertised
in the delinquent list of that year.
SECTION XIII.
After receiving the amount of
the taxes and costs, the City Tax
Collector must make out in dupli-
cate a certificate, dated on the day
Of sale, (when known the name OF
the person assessed, q description
OF the land sold, the amount paid
therefor, that it was sold for taxes,
giving the amount and the year OF
the assessment, and specify the
time when the purchaser will be
entitled to u deed. The certificate
must be signed by the City Tax
Collector and one copy delivered to
the purchaser and the other filed
with the Clerk of the Council. The
City Tax Collector, before deliver
ing any certificate, must, In a
beck, enter q description of the
land sold corresponding with the
description in the certificate, the
date of sale, purchasers name and
amount paid, regularly number
the descriptions on the margin of
the book and put q corresponding
number on each certificate. Such
book must be open to public in =.
spection, without fee, curing Of
foe hours when not In actual use.
SECTION XIII.
On filing the certificate with the
Clerk of the Council, the lien of
the city vests In the purchaser and
10 only Invested by the payment to
him or to the City Treasurer for
his use of the purchase money and
fifty per cent thereon.