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9 ernor, to meet at such time and place, within the 10 same, as in such warrant shall be specified, in order 11 to choose needful officers for the purposes hereinafter 12 mentioned; and such principal inhabitant is hereby 13 obliged to observe and obey the warrant that he shall 14 receive from such justice, on the penalty of forfeiting 15 and paying the whole sum that shall be ordered to be 16 levied on such plantation, to be recovered by action 17 of debt by said treasurer, in any court of record 18 within this state proper to try the same. And such 19 principal inhabitant shall make return of the justice's 20 warrant to the justice who issued it, with his doings 21 thereon, and the doings of the plantation in conse22 quence of it, within the time limited in such warrant ; 23 and the justice shall thereupon certify such doings to 24 the state treasurer. And such of said inhabitants as 25 shall then assemble, shall have power, and they are 26 hereby required to choose a moderator and clerk, as 27 also assessors and collectors for assessing and collect28 ing such plantation's proportion of such state and 29 county tax, as shall be ordered to be assessed, to be 30 duly paid, when collected by such collectors, to the 31 state or county treasurers respectively: and such

32 clerk, assessors and collectors shall be under oath, to 33 be administered by the moderator of such meeting, or 3 a justice of the peace, for the faithful discharge of 35 their respective duties, and shall have the same allow36 ance from such plantations as such officers are en37 titled to by law in towns.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the state treasurer 2 to cause within three months from the assessment by 3 the legislature, of any tax upon any township or tract 4 of land not taxable by the assessors of any town or 5 plantation, the said assessment to be published three 6 weeks successively in the newspaper of the printer to 7 the state, and in some newspaper printed in the 8 county where such land may lie, if such paper there 9 be. And said land shall be holden to the state for the 10 payment of such state tax and for the payment of 11 such sums as may be certified by the county treasurer 12 as having been assessed by the commissioners of their 13 respective counties for ordinary purposes, together 14 with the interest thereon for the sum and at the rate 15 hereinafter specified.

SEC. 3. Whenever any tax upon any such town2 ship or tract shall have been duly assessed or ordered 3 by the county commissioners for ordinary county ex

4 penses, it shall be the duty of the county treasurer 5 immediately to notify the state treasurer of the same, 6 particularly specifying the tract assessed, and the time 7 and amount of such assessment. Whenever the state 8 treasurer shall not deem it expedient to issue his 9 warrant for the organization of any plantation thus 10 assessed, it shall be his duty to give credit to said 11 county treasurer for the amount of such assessment 12 when paid, together with all interest received thereon 13 on the books of the state treasurer, and forward a 14 certificate of the sums thus paid on the first Monday 15 of January, annually, to said county treasurer.

SEC. 4. The owner or owners of any such town2 ship or tract of land which shall have been assessed 3 by the legislature and advertised as aforesaid by the 4 state treasurer, may at any time within two years from 5 the assessment redeem the same by paying into the 6 state treasury the amount of all state taxes and also all 7 the amounts due thereon for any taxes assessed on 8 said land by the county commissioners as aforesaid, to9 gether with interest on said sums at the rate of twenty 10 per cent. per year, said interest to be computed from 11 and after the expiration of one year from the date of 12 the assessment.

SEC. 5. At the expiration of one year after adver2 tisement by the state treasurer, contemplated in the 3 second section of this act, the state shall hold the 4 land thus advertised in the same manner as a mort5 gagee after taking possession for the purpose of fore6 closure, and may give permits on said tracts to cut 7 timber and grass to an amount sufficient to discharge 8 the taxes thereon with all intervening interest and 9 charges; and in case the taxes on any tract shall not 10 be discharged within said two years the county trea11 surer may discharge the tax due the state thereon, 12 and the state treasurer shall thereafter execute and 13 deliver his deed to said county treasurer, and a deed 14 thus executed by the state treasurer shall forever bar 15 all previous claims; and all proceedings in assessing 16 and advertising said land shall be taken and deemed 17 to be according to the provisions of law.

SEC. 6. If any tax upon any township or tract afore2 said which shall have been advertised as aforesaid, 3 together with the interest required thereon as afore4 said, shall not have been paid into the state treasury 5 for the space of two years next after the assessment 6 thereof, said township or tract shall be wholly forfeited 7 and vest in the state free and quit from all claims by

8 any former owner or owners and the same shall be 9 held and owned by the state by a title which is hereby 10 declared perfect and indefeasible.

SEC. 7. From and after the passage of this act the 2 county commissioners for the several counties in this 3 state shall assess upon all unincorporated townships 4 or parts of unincorporated townships in their respect5 ive counties, a sum of money sufficient to keep the 6 county roads, now laid out and opened, or such other 7 county roads as may be laid out and opened over such 8 unincorporated townships in said county, in good re9 pair, so that the same may be safe and convenient for 10 travelers, horses, wagons, and other vehicles.

SEC. 8. Said county commissioners shall make said 2 assessment on or before the fifteenth day of May in 3 each year, and shall publish a notice of the whole 4 amount so assessed, specifying the amount assessed 5 on such township or part of township, and the road 6 on which such assessment is to be expended, in some 7 newspaper published in such county, if any there be, 8 and in the newspaper published by the printer to the 9 state, as soon as may be after such assessment shall 10 have been made. And it shall be the duty of the 11 county commissioners and they are hereby authorized