The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-06-04
An Act.
RELATIVE TO THE PURCHASE OF LANDS
BY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AT SALES
THEREOF FOR ARREARAGEs
OF TAXES.

SECTION |. BE 10 enacted &c That
if any tract of land hereafter be sold
for taxes shall not have hidden for it a
sum equal to the whole amount OF
taxes and the costs then accrued, it
shall be the duty of the commissioners
of the proper county, or any OF them,
to bid off the same, and deed shall,
thereupon, be made by the treasurer to
the commissioners for the time being
and their successors in office to and for
the use of the proper county. And it
shall be the duty of the commissioners
to provide book, wherein shall be en-
tered the name of the person or per-
sons as whose estate the same shall
have been sold, the quantity of land or
number of lot and number of tract, If
any, tho amount of the taxes and the
costs it was sold for, and every such
tract of land shall not thereafter, so
long as the same shall remain the prop
erty of the county, be charged in the
duplicate of the proper collector, but
for five years next following such sale,
if it shall so long remain unredeemed,
the conn missioners shall, in separate
columns in the same book, charge ev.
cry such tract of land with like county,
school, road, or other taxes as would
have been chargeable against the said
land had the same not been sold and
purchased by the commissioners as
aforesaid.
SECTION 2. 1t shall be the duty of
the proper officers levying and fixing
the rate of taxation for all. local or
other purposes within any county of
this Commonwealth, wherein the COM
missioners thereof have purchased land
as aforesaid, annually, Immediately
after levying such local or other tax
or fixing the rate thereof, to certify or
cause to be certified rate of taxation
upon real estate for such local or other
purpose in order that the lands pur-
chased as aforesaid may be charged
with such taxes.
SECTION 8. The right of redemption
shall remain in the real owner of such
land for five years after such sale, and,
on paying the treasurer of the county
all the taxes and costs due thereon, at
the time of sale, and interest thereon
and also the taxes which shall have
been levied and charged thereon, from
year to year, after the sale and interts st
thereon from the time such taxes ought
to have been paid, and on the product
ion of the treasurers receipt therefor,
the commissioners shall, by deed poll
indorsed on the back of the treasurer's
deed to them, convey to the person
who shall have been the owner of the
land at the time of the sale, or his
legal representatives, all the rights and
title which the county may have &C.
quired under such sale as aforesaid
and the moneys received shall be paid
to the respective townships or districts
in which such lands shall lie as they
may be entitled thereto.
SECTION 4. If the owner or owners
of any such lands, purchased by the
commissioners as aforesaid, shall not
redeem the same within the period
aforesaid it shall therefore be lawful
for the commissioners to sell any such
lands at public sale, and make deed
or deeds therefor to the purchaser or
purchasers with like effect and in the
same manner that unseated lands pur-
chased by county commissioners are
now by law authorized to be sold by
them, and after such sale the lands
shall thereafter be charged by the
proper assessor in the name of such
last purchaser or redeemer, and shall
again be liable to be assessed and sold
for taxes as other lands.
SECTION 5. All acts or part of acts
herewith or hereby sup
piled be and the same are hereby re-
pealed.
APpRovED-The Sth day of July,
A. d. 1885.
ROBT, E.. PATTISON.