Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-01-29
The Delinquent Taxes.

The Delinquent Taxes.
The State delinquent taxes due from
staunton aggregate ss,o74 10, and from
the county $l1.97o. The delinquent
taxes due the city amount TO ABOUT
: three times that, say SO COO. AS to the city
tax the city council has adopted reso
luton asking the city Attorney for advice
as to the expediency of enforcing their COL
lection. As to the State tax. the following
| bill which is before the legislature IS llke
" to become law. 1t will be read with
interest by others than those VINO are
delinquent:
A BILL TO AMEND SECTIONS AND OF
AN ACT APPROVED MARCH H. 1851,
ENTITLED IAN Act TO PROVIDE FOR
THE SALE OF LANDS DELINQ UEN1 FOR
TAXES AND COUNTY LEvlEs. AID TO
REPEAL SECTION Is OF SAID ACT
/. Be 1t enacted By the General Assembly
of Vsrginsa, That sections aud of an
act approved March 10. 1884, entitled IAN
act to provide for the sale of lands de-
linquent for taxes and county levies, oa
amended and rs-enacted 80 as to read IS
follows
Section 4. Within thirty days after re-
ceiving such list from the Auditor OF Pub
lie Accounts the Treasurer shall make out
or cause to be printed, 1t least four copies
thereof, upan or in conformity With
blanks to be furnished him by the SAID
Auditor. and set up one or Gneui al LIE
front door of the courthouse on the nfst day
of the next County or Corporation Court;
and one Of said copies he shall cause
to be posted at two OF the most puollc
places in his county or corporation, and
elsewhere therein, if he shall deem 1t
proper so to d.; to each copy he snail sub
ioin notice that the real estate tbereln
mentioned, or SO much thereof as Stall be
sufficient to satisfy the taxes on, the same
and the interest and commissioners i've
percentum to the treasurer. and tbs costs
of adve Using ratably propOrtioped. will
be sold at public auction between The
NOUS of 10 in the morning and four ia
TIL evening Oh the first day OF the court
his county or corporation which is held
on or after the firsr day of August 1885,
Al the front of the Courthouse thereof,
unless said taxes, interest. costs, and com
missions shall be previously paid Oae of
sid copies he stall return to the Clerk 8
flee of his County OF Corpor .tion Court,
which shall bs preserved by the CLERK, and
shall be accepted as praraa facta evidences
of the proper advertisement OF the lands
or lots therein mentioned, should ths
regularity of such advertisement bA there
after drawn in question lii any court
Provided that such lists and notice Shall
if ordered by the court of the county or
corporation in which such real estate lies,
be advertised in some convenient news
paper for two successive weeks, the ex-
peuse Of which shall be appOrtiOned among
The deliDquents according to the amount
Of taxes due by them respectively; cut IN
any case where the land SO advertised to
be sold shall turn out not 10 be delinquent
or in case there should be a failure To sell
any one or more of the tracts OF land ad-
vertised for sale. then the proportion of
the costs of advertisement that would
Otherwise be chargeable to such tract OR
tracts shall be borne by the Common
wealth, except in any case whers the
failure TO sell such land arises from its re-
demption by the owner or any other per-
sou, in which Case such lands 80 redeemed
shall bear its proportion of the costs OF ad-
vertisement: Provided that all costs in-
Cured by the several treasurers of the
Common wealth prior to the passage OF
this act shall be chargeable to the general
fund arising from said sales.
Section T. Any person agsrieved by any
entity made in the list OF delinquents may,
at any time prior to the first day Of July,
1856, apply for relief to the court of the
county or corporation wherein such treas
urer gave bond and qualified; and the
Judge of said court either in term time or
vacation, shall have the power to hear aud
determine such appl cations. And such
court or judge being satisfied, and so certi-
lying of record that the taxes or county
levles assessed against such applicant, or
constituting lien upon real estate in
which he is interested, have been paid atthe
Ia, ,<,Ef ho md of M tE5
or in any other manner prescribed by law
or i'm properly assessed in part or in Whole
against sach real estate, Oh tiia6 suu>ss-@-
plicant is an Innocent purchaser for value
Of such real estate without actual notice
of the lien existing thereon in favor of
the Commonwealth prior to the year 1884.
shall correct such list and exonerate such
real estate from such delinquent tax or
leve5. Or So much thereof as appears not
to be due; but no real estate shall be re-
leased from taxes and levies properly as
sessed since the 1St day of January, 1854,
where the same have not been paid. The
attorney for the Commonw wealth of the
court wherein such notice is made shall
have ten days notice of the application
| unless he waive notice and he shall be
present and resist the application The
costs of the application shall be paid by
| the applicant. A copy of every such order
| for exOneTati0n shall be certified to the
| Auditor of Public Accounts, and another
| copy to the treasurer of the county or cor
| poI alton, and when delivered to the treas
| urer shall restrain him from making sale
| of the real estate or 50 much thereof as
/! may be exonerated Or released by such
| order. aDd said order shall operate as a
release from such liability upon said land
| for the taxes alleged to nave been re-
| turned delinquent And it shall be the
| duty of the treasurer to correct the lists
| received by him from the Auditor, as
| hel ein before provided, in accordance with
| the orders of the court of his county or
| corporation.
~ Section 16 of the act approved
| March 10, 1884, entitled an act to provide
for the sale of lands delinquent for taxes
| and county liens, be, and the same is
| hereby, repealed.
8. This act shall be in force from its
| passage.