SEATED LANDS SOLD FOR NON-PAYMENT OF TAXES, REDEMPTION Act of May 13, 1879, P.L. 55, No. 52 Cl. 53 AN ACT Regulating the right of redemption of seated lands returned to the county commissioners and sold for non-payment of taxes. Section 1. Right of redemption Where seated real estate has been heretofore or shall be hereafter returned to the county commissioners of the proper county for nonpayment of taxes thereon, and has been or shall be sold in satisfaction of said taxes, the owner or owners of such real estate shall have the right to redeem the same within the same time and in the same manner as if the real estate were unseated and assessed and sold as unseated: provided, that as to seated real estate heretofore sold such right of redemption shall not expire before the expiration of one year from the date of this act: and provided further, that no title by tax sale which shall have become absolute prior to the passage of this act shall be affected by its provisions. 1879, May 13, P.L. 55, Sec. 1. Section 2. Owners may show that there was sufficient personal property This act shall not be so construed as to prevent the original owner or owners from showing that there was sufficient personal property on the real estate sold to pay all the taxes assessed thereon which might have been seized by the collector if he had used due diligence, and in such case the title of the original owner or owners shall not be doubted. 1879, May 13, P.L. 55, Sec. 2. |