Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-01-27
wuAT 0lR LAwaAk ERs ARE Doing
Biiis OF General Inserest New Before
the Legislature fer Csnsideratisa.
LASpe SOLD TO rHR COUNTY.

LANp5 sOlD 10 The COUsTf.
C.B. No. 81, introduced by Mr.. Jacobs,
concerns lands sold to the county for
non payment of taxes. Its provisions
are substantially as follows:
In all cases where land 10 cold to the
county under the provisions of section
1913 of the Code. the Sheriff shall exc
cute two certificates describing the land.
which certificates shall state the amount
due on said land for taxes, costs. and
the expenses Of sale. Such certificates
shall be payable TO order, and shall
draw 20 per cent interest per sunun.
The Sheriff shall deposit one of said
certificates in the office of the treasurer
OF the county: the other he shall retain
in his sffice. The Sheriff is authorized.
whenever any person desires to purchase
said certificates, to indorse the same
without recourse to said purchaser upon
the purchaser paying 10 him the prlnci-
pal sum mentioned in said certificate,
with the interest en- the same. Upon
the reception of said SUN the Sheriff
shall enter In the proper books the taxes,
costa and expenses Oh the land de-
scribed as paid for the year or years
mentioned in said certificate, and be
shall report the fact TO the treasurer OF
the county, who shall indorss on the
certificate IN his possession the fact of
Its payment. In the succeeding year
the land described 10 the certificate
shall be assessed to the purchaser there
Of, Who shall pay the taxes on the same.
II it shall be necessary, TO secure the
payment of the taxes on said lands, to
offer them for sale again after the pur
chase of said certificate, another certifi-
safe shall be executed in duplicate as
above provided, and all the proceedings
thereon, az provided in the first osrtifi
cate, shall be followed a. to the second
certificate.
Said certificate may be redeemed ANY
tims within three years by the owner or
any m0rtgaeee, or execution or attach
ment creditor, by paying to the holder
Of said certificate the full amoont due
on said certificate.
IL there shall be no REDEEM ption of
said certificate within the three years
from the execution thereof, it shall be
the duty of the Sheriff of the county 30
execute deed ia the forn and manner
provided for the execution Of deeds for
the sale of lands for the non payment
Of taxes. and deliver the same TO the
holder of said certificate.
Said deed, 30 executed and delivered,
shall be prima fasie evidence of the
sufficienoy and regularity of ell the
proceedings prior thereto, the same a.
in case of other deeds executed to the
purchasers of land sold for non payment
of taxes.
@. Il No. 81, introduced by Mr.. Isascs,
10 to make section 1918 Of the Code read
az follows: Husband or wife shall not
be bound by any deed affecting oommu-
nifty real estate unless they shall jsin in
the conveyance and acknowledge the
same as provided BY the laws of the
Territory concerning acknowledgment
Of deeds.
ATTORNEY oESKIAL-
Mr.. Ferguson has introduced @. b.
No. Sc. to create the office Of Attorney
General. He 10 to be appointed by tbs
Governor. His qualifications and duties
are defined in the bill. He is to receive
l. !.