Bill from Daniel H. Wells and Others, 31 October 1842
Source Note
Select Committee on Public Revenue [, , , , and ], Bill, to Nauvoo City Council, , Hancock Co., IL, 31 Oct. 1842; handwriting of , , and ; signature of JS; endorsement and docket in handwriting of ; eighteen pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
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of the application for judgment against said City lots or other lands. and no owner hath appeared to make defence or show cause why judgment should not be entered against the said city lots and other lands for the taxes and costs due thereon and unpaid for the year herein set forth
Therefore, it is considered by the court that judgment be and is hereby entered against the aforesaid tract or tracts of land or City lots, or parts thereof (as the case may be) in the name of the City of for the sum annexed to each tract of land or City Lot being the amount of taxes and costs due severally thereon; and it is ordered by the court that the several tracts of land or City lots or so much thereof as shall be sufficient of each of them to satisfy the amount of taxes and costs annexed to them severally, be sold as the law directs
Sec 24) It shall be the duty of the Clerk within five days after or soon as may be after the adjournment of the <said> court to make out under the seal of said court a copy of the Assess-ers and collecters repo[r]t together with the order of the court thereon, which shall constitute the process on which all lands and City lots shall be sold for taxes, and deliver the same to the City Marshall, and the Marshall thereupon <shall> cause the said lands to be sold on the day specified in the notice given by the Assessors and collectors and make return thereof to the Clerk aforesaid within ten days a[f]ter the day of sale
sec 25 } any person or persons may pay owning or claiming lands advertised for sale as aforesaid may pay the taxes and cost due thereon. to the assessor and collector at [p. 13]