Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-16
Provisions of the New Bill Now
Before the Senate Committee
DeIoIe CHG Ddnal6 COmnllrl6G
PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE SALES
The Transfer of Unredeemed Prop.
erty to Purchasers.
DeIOIe CHG Dansle COmnIIrr6G
PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE SALES
SIMPLIFYING THE PROCES S

sidered the new tax sales bill, that was
considerably amended at the meeting last
week, and on Monday was ordered to be
reprinted and recommitted in order to show
the changes and to give the committee a
chance to further perfect it. The amended
bill is designed to simplify and codify the
existing laws in force in the District on
this subject 1t makes almost as many
changes from the original bill as the lat
ter did from the present law.
The first section provides for yearly ad-
vertisng of delinquent property, begin
ming on the third Tuesday Of each year.
The list is to be printed in a pamphlet,
Of which at least 2,UCO copies shall be
printed. and the fact of such publication
shall be printed in at least two daily pa
pers. advertising the fact that these PAM
phiets may be obtained free from the Com
mlssioners. The date of the sale shall be
given, and on the day thus fixed the prop
erty so advertised shall be sold at public
auction at the Office of the collector of
taxes, commencing three weeks after the
first publication of the notice, and con-
bill declares that "a description sufficient
to identify the property shall be considered
q proper description"
The second section provides that the prop
erty shall all be brought to auction, and In
case no purchaser appears for any parcel
the Commissioners shall bid ii in for the
District for the amount charged against it..
In section three 1t is provided that each
purchaser shall pay the amount of his bid
to the collector within five days after the
last day of the sale. and failure to do so
shall authorize the Commissioners to set
aside the sale, after five days notice to
the purchaser. The Commissioners shall,
with the consent of the next highest bid
der whose bid is equal to the charges
against the property, declare him the pur-
chaser. and if he refuses, and no other one
comes forward, the Commissioners shall
bid in the property.
The Tax Sale Deeds.
Immediately upon the payment of pur-
chase money the Commissioners shall issue
to the purchaser a certificate of sale, and
II the property be not redeemed by the own
er or any one with an interest therein or a
lien thereon within two years from the last
day Of sale the Commissioners shall give a
deed to the purchaser, his heirs, devlsecs
or to the assignee of the certificate. This
redemption shall be made by payment of
the purchase money and - per cent there
on added The deed thus given by the Com
missisoners shall vest in the grantee such
estate as was vested in the delin 1uent own
er at the time the taxes were assessed. The
section contains proviso that no property
so advertised shall be sold upon any bids
not sufficient to meet the amount of tax,
penalty and costs, and in case the Commits
sioners bid il in 1t shall still be subject TO
further taxation as other property, and If
within two years it is not red asmCd 10y the
payment of the taxes so accumulated, pen
altieS and costs with 10 per cent added,
the Commissioners shall deed the properly
to the assessor, who shall have power, in
case the property shall not be redeemed.
to sell it at private sale for an amount hot
less than the taxes, penalties and costs
and shall issue to the purchaser at such
sale deed conveying all the right, title
and estate, legal or equitable, of the owners
in whose name ii was assessed. Such deed
shall not be issued by the assessor prior TO
the expiration of a year from the last day
allowed for redemption from sale. and no.
tice shall be given to the person in whose
name the property was assessed, and not
until all charges shall have been paid in
full. Minors and others under legal liabil-
ity shall be allowed a year after the minors
come of age or after the disability has been
removed to redeem the property On the
payment of the amount of the purchase
money, with 10 per cent per annum added,
together with all taxes and assessments
that have been paid by the purchaser or
his assigns between the day of sale and the
period of redemption. with 10 per cent Fer
annum interest on the amount of the taxes
and assessments. Failure on the part OF
the District to enforce the liens acquired on
the property shall not release the property
from any tax whatver that may be due the
District.
Section provides that the owner or au-
thorized agent of any property so soli Cor
taxes or any other person having an in
terest in the property at the Time of sale
may redeem within two years, as previously
provided.
Section 5 requires the Commissioners
within twenty days after the last day OF
the sale to file with the recorder of deeds
a written report of the property advertised
and sold, to whom II was assessed, the taxes
due, to whom Sold amount pail, date OF
sale, cost of sale, the surplus, if any, and
the lands sold to the District. Any surplus
remaining after the collection If taxes
"a ND CT hal hA Sa1 L..
the collector to the credit of the surplus
fund, to be paid to the owner or his repre-.
sentatives.
A Final Published Notice.