1915_private laws_207_5
CHAPTER 206 AN ACT TO REVISE AND AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF HIDDENITE IN THE COUNTY OF ALEXANDER, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the tax collector shall enforce the collection of taxes due said town by levying upon personal property, if any can be found, then upon the real property of the delinquent taxpayers within said town; and after he shall have advertised the personal property for ten days and the real property for thirty days by posting notices at the office of the mayor and four other public places in said town or in some newspaper published in Alexander County, he may sell said property or so much thereot as may be necessary to satisfy the taxes for which same is being sold and all costs incident to such sale; said sales to be made by public auction at the front door of the mayors office in said town; and for all real property so sold the tax collector shall pass to the purchaser a receipt for the purchase money and file with the secretary of the board of commissioners a TRUE return of his proceedings: Provided, that if the delinquent taxpayer whose real estate is sold, or his agent, shall desire to redeem the said real estate, he shall be permitted to do so only upon his paying to the secretary of said board within twelve months of sale the amount for which said real estate was sold, including costs, plus twentyfive per centum on such amount. Upon the payment of such sums such taxpayer shall be restored to his original rights with respect to the property so sold; but upon failure of any delinquent taxpayer to so redeem his real estate so sold, the tax collector shall make deed to such purchaser, and such deed shall be sufficient to pass all rights, title, and interest the delinquent taxpayer has in and to the real estate so sold. The said tax collector shall, by survey or otherwise, definitely designate what part of the real estate of any and all delinquents he so sold, when less than the whole lot or tract of such delinquent or delinquents was sold.