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An Act, concerning Slaves. 1813 26 (1813)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0187 and id is 1 raw text is: In the thirty-eighth Year of the Coininonwealth. Clerks to deliver 45. The said clrs shall thereupon, on or hefore tle first day 3.1ch Ists to ih, of Ma|y folhowing, deliver to the sherifih of their respective coun. shicrifi.4, oil or bl,.re the i at fie,,distlii et I 3s of all airtarages' duo upon lands, and lot , of May, 1815. crediting thereon as well the pt.yinenls eertified by the Auditor as ill payments beretefore made at their oflives under the beforo Duty o4 the sher- recited net eonce'rning taxes on land. The sheriff shall coil et Mif thereupo-. and aecount for these arrearages, and (he damages Whe t{upon, shall proreed therein by distress, by sale of the land, and, in every respect whatever, shall perform, the same duties, and-be liable to tie sate penaltie's anti recovery in relation to them, as if' they were pat-. o' the a'rearagcs ol the year oghteen hidred and fourteen ; changing o ily tile form of his advertisements and his returns so as to suit the ease. , Provision wtiere 4 6. And whereas the lists of delinquencies Nhieh have becr. lists, which have be n transmitted transmitted by the Auditor to the clerks, in many instances by tie :au !itor reontia lands and lots which have fallen into nlew counties, tint to the clerkt,, have been ereated since the returns have been maede for tile non- cowi, i'l~i wonjsi ,ave ~*payment of taxes: le it therefore cnacted, That tile clerks of lea n new the old eounties from which new ones have been strieken hO be coiinii-.s created lereby authorised and directed, on or before the first day of since the returns March eighteen hundred atud fifteen, to certify and transmit to of deliinqtc:cy o1efo made. tie clerks of the new eotttics so c.reated, and to the Auditor of public aceounts, correct lists of all such lands and lots, so fia' as they can be aseertined. with tie credits certified by the Auditor, or made by payments to themselves. ile clerks olthe said. new counties shall deliver to tihe shleriflI thereof fair copies of the lists so cerlited at (ie same time at which tho-y are hereby re. quir ed to deliver to the slerill ofher lists ol'delinquencies. The sheriffis shall collect and acount for the saine in the same man- ner in every respect imttever, as is hervin prescribed in the col- lection of other arrearages of land tax i their said counties. The clerks of the several couuties for failing to deliver any list or lists as aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dol- Jars. Westo the 47. The clerks, for their gervices in making out and furnish. clerks for fur- ing to the sheriffl and to the clerks of new counties, Ihe lists a- nishing the llsig, to the sherilts & foresaid, slall be entitled to a fee of twenty live cents for ech clerks of new tract of land or lot, 'contained in the said listrto lie paid by tle .counties.. delinquent person, to be charged on the land, eollected by the sheriff, together wYith the arrearages, and accounted for by such sherif, irn the same manner that lie accounts fur other clerk's fees put into his hands For collection : Provided, that such fe(Xs shall not remain as a lien on any land or lot vested under this aot in the literary fund. How lands sold, 48. All lands and lots sold, or vested in the president and di- er vested in the rectors of'the literary fund, om account of lencs are- president &hia u o c n deliquencish rectois of the toforo accrued, ~uay be redeemed in Ithle. saine, manner as lands literary fund, for and lots so sold any vested, on account of delinquencies hereaf- deliqu,.ncies ter accruing. And the same time is hereby allowed to infants, heretofore ac. femo coverts, persons insane, imprisoned, or out of the com- cr'ied, may be :. deemed. moniweai'y, b..ing engaged in the service of this State or the United S'tte?, to redeem the same after their' disabilities shall have ceo ed. In controve, ies 49. 11 eever in any cintroversy respecting the title of any rpectngt) '. ti. landl or lot sold und qr this act, for tije non-payment of taxes, it ties ofland .%Ad shall be alledged that any ollcial returWf thou shiriffp made on

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