Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-11-28
STATE OF MAINE.

WHEREAS the County Commissioners of OK.
w ford County, in the month of September,
1851 made an inspection of all the county roads In
unincorporaed townships and tracts Of lands here.
nafter named in said county, and found the roads
therein detective, and thereupon made an estimate
of the amount needed In each township and tact,
to put the ad in repair during the year 1881 the
same would be safe and convenient for public travel.
and at the December session, 1881, said County
Commissioners assessed tax on said townships
and tracts for the repair of the roads therein which
they deemed necessary far that purpose, and at the
same time appointed agents to superintend the ex-
peDditure of said assessments, on the defective
roads, the law requires Who gave bonds approved
by said County Commissioners according TO law,
assessments hereinafter named, made by said COM
m ssoners were duly and seasonably published with
list OF said townships and tracts OF land assessed,
with the sum on each, and the roads on which the
same was to be expended, in the kennebec Journal.
the Stale paper, and in the Oxford Democrat pub
lie newspaper printed at Paris in said county, three
weeks successfully. the last publication in each being
within three months from said assessment and said
commissioners having on the 18th day OF June,
les2. made examination Of said county roads, and
found the owners Of said townships and tracts 80
assessed had not repaired the roads therein their
acceptance and the law requires said agents pro-
ceeded Immediately after said 18th day of June, loe
to repair said roads, and lawfully expended thereon
so much OF said assessment AS was necessary TO put
said roads in repair 10 be safe and convenient for
public travel; and the owners of the following town
ships and tracts have failed for more than two
months since said 18th day Of June, loS2. and still
fail 10 pay the sums assessed on their respective
townships and tracts, aforesaid, any part there
fled to this Office by the County Commissioners aoit-
said as follows, the rate being u mills ON the dollar
ON RILEY PLANTATION, OXFORD COUNTY.
Owners or In No.
known. Description. Acres. Value. TAX
Heirs OF Harvey
Philbrook, 600 800 slW
Tnknown, 10, No. FL 200 200 100 100 Is
Unknown, NV: half of lot B. ,oo .o "a
Unknown, Lot =, s,4,7&s,
r. 3, 1000 900 -
Unknown, Lot s, X. 4, 200 80 ~
Samuel Eames, S.W. half Of lot 2,
r. s, & Il. half of
lot 3, RS $50 80 ~
Now, therefore. pursuant TO chapter o, section o.
Revised -tatues, notice is given TO the owners, pro,
prietors and all interested in the above describeu
lands that shall sell at public auction and convey
to the highest bidder, If such bidder shall Dia ~
amount not less than the amount due on each sara
for the tax, costs, and interest at 20 per cent
per annum from the time prescribed for the pay heht
Of the lax, the County 1reasurers Office, IN fars
ten O'Clock A. NJ. much Of each OF said tracts Oh
which said taxes, interest and lawful charges sha
then be unpaid shall be necessary TO pay the sew
eraI taxes thereon then due, with lawful interest
from the 18th day of August, A. ID. 1857 10 the diy
of sale; and all of said tracts Of land on which sara
not sold, will be forfeited to said county. The sae
and COW of said lands, and forfeiture, VIII DC
made subject in the owners or part owners, or ten
ants in common, Of the same, to redeem their r.
spective interests within two years from day Oh sae
or forfeiture by payment TO the purchaser or county
with lawful interest, and any sums subsequently
paid for state and county taxes thereon
GEO. Ii. WATKINS,
3w46 County Treasurer Tor Oxford County