Chap. 51.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 5th section, chapter
38, Code of 1878. in regard to the delivery of lists of delinquent
‘lands to treasurers.

Approved January 25, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the fifth sec-
tion of chapter thirty-eight, Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
LOWS:

$5. In the months of July, August, and September, in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty, and in one of these months
every five years thereafter, the auditor of public accounts, on
the part of the stete, and the county court or corporation clerks,
on the part of the counties or corporations, shall cause to be
delivered to the treasurer of each county or corporation in the
commonwealth a list of the real estate therein, which since the
tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, shall have
been or may hereafter be returned delinquent for the non- pay-
ment of taxes, either for state, county, or corporation purposes,
and on which taxes remain unpaid, with a statement of the
amount due for such taxes on each tract or lot so returned, and
for interest on such taxes, whether or not the same has hereto-
fore been sold and purchased by the commonwealth.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.