Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-04-06
Oxford, Lafayette County, Miss, Thursday April 6
Time EXTENDED
TO TAXPAYERS
Emergency Measure Postpones Date
Property Sales.


Jackson, Miss, April 1.-An EN-
ergency bill, supplementing the Shell
don bill, as published in fridays
Commercial Appeal, was introduced
and passed today with lightning
speed, extending the date for tax
sales from the first Monday in April
to the first Monday in May, 1922.
The governor promptly signed the
4 bill as soon as it reached him this
evening, and it is now law, so that
no tax sales made on the first Mon
day of April will be valid. Certified
copies of the law were mailed out to
the tax collectors this afternoon.
The law applies to municipalities as
well as to counties. The bill fol-
ows:
Section BE it enacted by the
Legislature of the State of Missis-
sippi that it shall be unlawful for 10
tax collectors of the various coun1s
ties or municipalities of the state to
sell any lands for taxes delinquent
thereon for the fiscal year of 192se
damages or costs, on the first Mon
day of April, 1922, under sectie1
1926 of the Mississippi code of 1906.
but all lands advertised by them fors
sale on the first Monday of April
1922, in accordance with sect
1925, Mississippi code of 1906, fosK
such taxes, damages or costs, shalE
be sold by them on the first MondaVf
of May, 1922, without further ad-
vertisement or notices, the sales for.
such taxes, damages or costs, on the
first Monday of April, 1922, under
said section 1926, Mississippi code Of
1906, being hereby postponed and
continued until the first Monday of
May, 1922, with the right to con-
tinue the sales thereafter from day1
to day, not to exceed three days, i'll
not completed on said first Monday
of May.
Section 2. That the said tax collec-
tors shall file all conveyances of
land sold to individuals for the taxes,
damages or costs, aforesaid in the
office of the clerk of the chancery
court of his county, or clerk of the
municipality, as the case may be
within the same length of time af-
ter the first Monday of May, 1922,
as they would have had to so file
the same after the first Monday of
April, 1922, if the sale had been
made on said first Monday in April,
1922. And the tax collectors of the
various counties shall file the list of
lands struck off to the state at said
sale for said taxes, in the offices of
the clerks of the chancery courts Of
their respective, counties within the
same length of time after the first
Monday of May, 1922, as they would
have so filed the same after the first
Monday of April, 1922, if the sale had
been made on said first Monday in
April, 1922. The owners of each
property so sold for taxes shall have
the right to redeem the same within
two year sfrom the day of sale as
now provided by law.
I Section 8. That any person delin-
quent for said taxes shall have the
benefit of the provisions of House
Bill No. 415 of the Legislature of
the State of Mississippi of 1922,
and the liens for said taxes, damages
or costs, shall be assigned prior to
the first Monday of May, 1922, to the
same extent and as fully as prior to
the first Monday in April, 1922.
Section A. That House Bill No.
i I317 of the Legislature of the State
of Mississippi, 1922, approved Feb. !,
1922, and its provisions, are hereby
continued in full force and effect to
the same extent and as fully as
though the same by its terms so
provided, until May l, 1922 any
damages collected after March 81,
1922, and prior to the enactment to
be refunded to the parties paying
the same.
Section 5. That this act take effect
and be in force from and after its
passage.