Chapter 1097.
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CHAP. 1097.— An act prescribing the times for sales and for notice of sales of property in the District of Columbia for overdue taxes.October 12, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Sale of real estate for arrears of taxes. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall prepare a list of all taxes on real property in said District subject to taxation upon which said taxes are levied and in arrears on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and each year thereafter, including all taxes due to the late corporations of Washington City, Georgetown, the levy court of the county of Washington, and the District of Publication of list of delinquents.Columbia; and said Commissioners shall publish the same, with a notice of sale, in a pamphlet, of which not less than five thousand copies shall be printed for distribution to taxpayers applying therefor; and a list of said property shall be published once in a daily newspaper, published in the District of Columbia, at a cost not to exceed the sum of fifteen cents for each parcel of property so advertised.
Said Commissioners shall, on the first Tuesday in January, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the first Tuesday in September of each year FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1097–1099, 1113. 1888.557 thereafter, give notice, by advertising twice a week for three successiveAdvertising. weeks in the regular issue of two daily newspapers published in said District, that said pamphlet has been printed, and that a copy thereof will be delivered to any taxpayer applying therefor at the office of said Commissioners, and that if the taxes due, together with the penalties and costs that may have accrued thereon, shall not be paid prior to the day named for sale the property will be sold, under the direction of said Commissioners, at public auction, at the officeSales at auction. of the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia, commencing three weeks after the first publication of said notice and continuing on each following day, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, until all such delinquent property is sold.
Sec. 2. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith areRepeal provision. hereby repealed. Approved, October 12, 1888. Chapter 1098: to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell township maps or plats remaining on hand in his office. Chapter 1098 25 Stat. 557 1888-10-12 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-23 50 1 public
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