The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-30

with costs Of advertising, on or before the
ttns Of sale, the collector shall proceed to sell
at public auction, to the highest bidder, so
much Of sach real estate orinterest as is neees-
nary to pay the tax due, with three dollars for
advertising and selling 1t, the sum paid to the
printer, twenty-five cents tor each copy
required to be lodged with the town clerk
twenty .fyo cents for the return required to De
made to the town clerk, fifty cents Tor the
town clerk for recording the same and sixty
acvsn cents for the deed thereof and certlhcate
OF acknowledgements If the bidding Is Tor less
than the whole, 1t shall be for fractonal part
Of the estate, and the bidder who will pay the
sum due for the least fractional part shall be
tho purchaser. II more than one right, lot or
parcel Of land is SO advertised and sold. said
charge of three dollars, the twenty-five cents
for each COPY lodged with the town clerk, the
twenty-five cents for the return made to the
town clerk, and the fifty cents for the town clerk
for recording the same, shall be divided equally
among the several rights, lots or parcels ad.
vertIsed and sold at any one time; and in addi
ton, the sum paid to the printer shall be
divided equally among the nonresident
rights, lots or parcels 50 advertised and sold
ssiiN SoAAOooSA AAAey
cents on each parcel of real estate so adver-
tised and sold, when more than one parcel is
advertised and sold The collector may, If
necessary to complete the sales, adjourn the
auction from day to day.
SECT. 4. Section one hundred and ninety.
seven of said chapter six, as amended by Sec
ton seven Of chapter seventy of the public
laws Of eighteen hundred and ntnety-fve, is
hereby amended, SO as to read as follows;
Section 1877. The collector making any sale
of real estate for non payment of taxes, shall
within thirty days after such sale make re-
turn, with particular statement of his doings
In making such sale, to the clerk of his town;
who shall record 1t IN the town records; and
said return, or If lost or destroyed, an attested
copy of the record thereof, shall be evidence
Of the facts therein set forth IN all cases where
such collector Is not personally interested.
The collectors return to the town clerk shall
bein substance as follows:
Pursuant to law, caused the taxes assessed
on the real estate of nonresident owners de-
scribed herein, situated in the town of
for the year to be advertised according
to law by advertising in the three
weeks successfully, the first publication being
on the day Of and at least six
weeks before the day Of sale; and caused the
taxes assessed on the real estate of resident
owners described herein, situated in the town
Of for the year to be advertised
according to law by posting notice as required
By law, at the following places, six weeks
before the day of sale, being public and con
spicuous places in said town. I also, at least
ten days before the day of sale, gave to each
resident owner of said lands, or the occupant
thereof, if any, in hand, or left at his last and
usual place of abode and sent by mail to the
last and usual address Of each nonresident
owner of said lands, whose address was known
to me, written notice of the time and place OF
said sale, in the manner provided by law; and
afterwards ON the first Monday of December,
Is at nine O'Clock, A. NJ, being the time
and place of sale, proceeded to sell, according
to the tenor Of the advertisement, the estates
upon which the taxes SO assessed remained I'M
paid and in the schedules following is set forth
each parcel of the estate so offered for sale
the amount Of taxes, and the name of the pur
chaser; and have made and executed deeds
of the several parcels to the several persons
entitled thereto, and placed them on file in the
town treasurer's Office, to be disposed Of as the
law requires. ,e