Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-04-24
STATE OF MAINE.

W hereas the County Commissioners of the County
of xford, in the month of September A. D. 1880
located and open for travel, lying in the unincor.
poraed townships and tracts of land hereinafter
mentioned in said county, and f uud and adjudged
the county roads therein detective and thereupon
in each of said townships, and tracts, to put the
A. ID. 1851, that the same might be safe and con
venient for public travel and adjourned session
of the September Term of said Commits sioners'
Court held In said county the eth day of Decem
Der, $780, said COMM siOners for the purpose raising
tax to repair said defective roads, In the said re-
spectiye townships, and tracts, assessed upon said
respective townships, and tracts the respective es-
tlinated sums which they deemed necessary for
making said repairs on the roads in each said
spective townships and tracts exclusive of lands
reserved for public uses, and at the same time ap-
pointed agents TO superintend the expenditure OF
said on said defective roads as the law
requires; who gave their respective bonds with
suTeties approved by said Comms sOneTs to expend
the money faith ally, and 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 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 Kennebe
journal the State paper, printed at Augusta State
of Maine. and in the oxford Democrat, a public
newspaper printed ut Paris in said county OF Oxford
three weeks successfully in EACH the last publication
in each being within three months from the said
dale of said assessment. And the said Commission.
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actual examination of said county roads, and there
upon found and adudged that the respective owners
OF said townships and tracts OF land assessed had
not repaired the sad roads in their respective town.
ships and tracts Of land, to their accepance and s
the law requires and thereupon said agents proceed
ed Immediately after said fifteenth day of June, to
repair said roads, and lawfully expended thereon,
within one year from the same assessment so much
OF SAID assessment as To put said roads
IN such repair that the same were thereby made safe
and convenient for public travel; and The several
owners OF the following said townships and tracis
nave Iahed Tor more than two months since said
niteenth day OF June, and still do fail to pay the
several sums assessed on their respective townships
ana tracts as aforesaid any part thereof and the
same now remain due, and unpaid as certified TO
ths Once nv the County Commissioners, resaid,
as follows, viz: The rate being three mills on the
dollar
=, wners. Description. No. acres. Value. Tax.
Unknown, Lot 8, X. 4, 200 20 Ia
Ephraim & Henry Wright, Lots2
In IL Il l3 Range. South
OF z in 18th Range, so 500 240
samuel Eames, southwest half of
Lot2R g. +. half of 3, RS, $50 100 IS
Now, therefore, pursuant to Chapter g. Section So,
Revised Statutes. notice is hereby given to the
ers, propretors and all interested In the above de.
scrbed lands that shall sell at public auction. and
convey by eeed to the highest bidder if such bidder
at said sale shall bid amount not less than the
amount due on each said township and tract for the
annum from the time prescribed for the payment of
such tax, at the County Treasurers Office in Paris,
IN sain county, on the third day Of June next at ten
. ciocS IN the forenoon, much OF each of said
townships and tracts of land. assessed afore.
-aid' on which said taxes, interest and lawful
hafges Shat then be unpaid, shall be necessary
10 pay the several taxes thereon respectively then
due, with Interest at the rate of 20 per cent per
annum, IRON the fifteenth day of August A. D. 1851,
70 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 unpaid, and
sna not be as aforesaid sold will be forfeited to said
County. The sale and conveyance Of said lands and
FORFEITURE VIII 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 the
purchaser, or the County, the sum Tor which the
townships and tracts were Sold became
orieed with interest at twenty per cent per annum,
and any sums subsequently paid for State and County
taxes thereon. GEO. II. WATKINS,
County Treasurer for Oxferd County.
County Treasurer's Office
Paris, April 8, 1882. 3w15