Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-04
STATE OF MAINE.

Whereas the County Commissioners of the County
of Oxford. in the month of September A. d. 1850.
located and open for travel, lying in the unincor
porated townships aud tracts of land hereinafter
mentioned in said county, and fluid 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 year
venent for public travel and AT adjourned session
of the September Term OF said Commissioners
ber 1880, said Commissioners for the purpose raising
tax to repair said defective roads, IN the said
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 re-
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 assessments on said defective roads the law
requires; who gave their respective bonds with
sureies, approved by said Commissioners, to eXpend
the money faith ully, 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 heIeinaf ct
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. a 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
ers, the fifteenth day OF June A. D. ISL made
actual examination of said county roads, and there
upon found and adjudged that the respective owners
OF said aud tracts OF land assessed had
not repsired the sad roads in their respective
ships and tracts of land to their acceptance and
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, much
of said assessment necessary put said roads
in such repair that the were thereby made safe
and convenient for public travel; and the several
owners of the following said townships and tracts
have failed for more than two months since said
fifteenth 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 the
same now remain due, and unpaid certified to
this office by the County Commissioners, afore said,
as follows, viz: The rate being three mills the
dollar
Owners. Description. No. acres Value Tax
Unknown, NV. oflot3 RI. loo $500 TO
Unknown. Lots 2. 81, IS, R.3, 1000 500 80
Unknown, Lot s. r.. 200 50 Is
Ephraim & Henry Wright, Lots2
in II & - Range. Il South
of in 18th Range, so 500 ? 40
Samuel Eames, southwest half of
Lot2R RS, 4 +. half of B. RS, $50 $50 A
Now, therefore, pursuant to Chapter @, Section So,
Revised Statutes, notice is hereby given to the
ers, proprietors and all interested in the above lie
convey by deed to the highest bidder such bidder
at said sale shall bid an amount not less than the
amount due each said township and tract, for the
tax, costs, and interest at 20 per cent. per
annum. from the time prescribed for the payment of
such tax at the County 1reasurer's Office in Paris,
in said County, the third day of June next ten
O'Clock in the forenoon. much OF each of said
townships and tracts of land, assessed afore-
said. on 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 20 per cent. per
annum, from the fifteenth day of August A. ID. 1ssl.
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 remain unpaid, and
shall not be aforesaid sold 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, or the County, the sum for which the
respective townships and tracts sold. became
forfeited 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 Oxford County.
County Treasurer's Once
Paris, April s, 1882. 3yls