Chapter 40. prescribing the times for sales and for notices of sales of property in the District of Columbia for overdue taxes
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CHAP. 40.— An Act prescribing the times for sales and for notices of sales of property in the District of Columbia for overdue taxes.March 19, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Tax arrearage sales.Listing. 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 tax,es are levied and in arrears on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and each and every year thereafter, including all taxes due to the late corporations of Washington City, Georgetown, the levy court of the County of Washington, and the Publication and distribution of pamphlets.District of Columbia.
And the said Commissioners shall publish the same with a notice of sale in a pamphlet of which not less than three thousand copies shall be printed for distribution to taxpayers Notice in newspapers.applying therefor. Said Commissioners shall, on the first Tuesday in April, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the third Tuesday in March of each year thereafter, give notice which shall contain the name of each and every person in which each piece of property is assessed together with the amount of assessment upon each piece by advertising twice a week for three successive weeks in the regular issue of two or more daily newspapers published in said District, that said pamphlet has been printed and that a copy thereof will be delivered FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 40, 46. 1890.25 to any taxpayer applying therefor at the office of the 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 fixed for sale, the property will be sold under the direction of . the said Commissioners at public auction at the office of the collector of taxes for the District of Columbia, commencing three weeks after the first publication of the said notice and continuing on each following day, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, until all said delinquent property is sold: *Provided, however*, That property which has once*Proviso*.Duplicated advertising prohibited. been advertised and sold for nonpayment of taxes shall not be again advertised for the same tax.
The expenses of said advertising and the printing of said pamphlet shall be paid by a charge of twentyCharge for advertising and printing. cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. Sec. 2. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, March 19, 1890.