turned to him. If such taxes are not levied upon such lands as herein required, the board of supervisors shall cause the same, with interest thereon, to be levied upon the tax district in which originally assessed, and collected with the other taxes of the same year. If the tax district shall have been divided since such assessment, such taxes and interest shall be apportioned by the board of supervisors among the tax districts included in the limits.of such original tax districts in such equitable manner as it may deem proper.

[L. 1878, chap. 152, § 19, was repealed by the Tax Law, but L. 1896, chap. 951, amending such section, was not repealed, and having been passed at the same session as the Tax Law, is, pursuant to section 31 of the Statutory Construction Law, still in force, we have, therefore, inserted it in this place.]

§ 19. Whenever the comptroller shall have rejected any tax in the first instance, or have canceled and charged the same to the county to which it had previously been credited, the supervisor of the town or ward in which such lands are situate, shall, if in his power, add to the assessment-roll of such town or ward for the year during which such transcript shall have been forwarded by the comptroller to the county treasurer, an accurate description of such lands and the correct amount of taxes thereon, stating the tax of each year and each kind of tax, separately, and shall furnish the comptroller with all such maps and surveys of such lands as shall have been required by him; and, if necessary, he may cause a survey and map of each lot or parcel returned for more perfect description to be made and the expense of such survey and map shall be a charge upon such land to be added to the tax thereon, the board of supervisors shall direct the collection of such taxes and the expenses so added to such assessment-roll, and they shall, for all the purposes of this act, be considered as taxes of the year in which the description shall be perfected. If the supervisor of such town or ward shall not have fully complied with the requirements of this section, the comptroller shall not thereafter admit, but shall reject all such reassessed, canceled or rejected taxes as may be returned to him. Whenever any tax has been rejected by the comptroller and returned to the county to which it had previously been credited, the board of supervisors of such county, or if there be no board of supervisors of such county, then the board of aldermen performing the duties of supervisors, shall direct that such rejected tax be canceled upon the tax-roll in the office of the treasurer of the county, for the year or years for which it was levied.

107. Nonresident taxes, when and how paid to comptroller. The comptroller shall, at any time after August first, next after receiving statement thereof from the county treasurer, furnish any person desiring to pay the taxes on any parcel of land, a certificate of the amount of such taxes, interest and charges, and the state treasurer may receive payment therefor upon such certificate, which shall be countersigned by the comptroller and entered in the books of his office. Such interest shall begin August first, of such

year, and be at the rate of ten per centum per annum. Any person claiming a divided or undivided part in any parcel may pay to the state treasurer any part of the amount due thereon, proportionate to the share or interest claimed by him, on the certificate of the comptroller. The remaining tax and charges shall be a lien on the residue of the land or interest only. If the land has been subdivided since the assessment, the comptroller may require a map of the subdivisions. Any person may pay the tax for any one year on any tract or lot of land without paying the tax of any other

year.

§ 108. Deduction of overcharges. If any tract or lot of land shall have been returned as containing a greater quantity of land than it actually contained, the amount overcharged shall be deducted. If the tax shall have been paid according to such return, the overcharge shall be refunded. out of the treasury upon the production to the comptroller of satisfactory proof of the quantity actually contained in each tract or lot at the time of the assessment. No such overcharge shall be canceled nor such over-payments refunded, unless application shall be made to the comptroller before the sale of such lands, and within six years after the assessment. If the whole amount of the tax shall have been paid to the county treasurer out of the state treasury, the comptroller shall charge the amount so refunded with interest and charges thereon to the treasurer of the county to which the tax was returned, and shall transmit an account thereof to him. The county treasurer shall deliver such account to the board of supervisors at their next annual meeting, which shall cause the amount thereof to be added to the taxes of the tax district in which the tax was assessed, and when collected it shall be paid into the treasury of the county.

109. Overpaid taxes. If it shall satisfactorily appear to the comptroller that the amount of any tax has been paid, and afterwards other money has been paid into the state treasury on account of such tax or that the amount of any tax has been overpaid to the treasurer of the state, he may draw his warrant on the treasury for the amount paid in excess of the tax due, in favor of the person paying the same.

ARTICLE VI.

SALE BY COMPTROLLER FOR UNPAID TAXES AND REDEMP. TION OF LANDS.

Section 120. Notice of sale.

121. Maps to be furnished comptroller.

122. Sale, how conducted.

123. Purchases by comptroller, for state or county.

124. Withdrawal from sale of lands upon which the state has a lien.

125. Payment of bids and certificate of purchase.

126. New certificate upon setting aside sale.

127. Redemption of lands.

128. Redemption of lands conjointly assessed.

129. Prohibition of the despoliation of lands sold.

130. Notice of unredeemed lands.

131. Comptroller's deed.

132. Effect of former deeds.

133. Possession of lands by the state.

134. Notice to occupants.

135. Certificate of nonredemption and completion of title.

136. Redemption by occupant and certificate of redemption. 137. Redemption by occupant before notice and effect of failure

to redeem.

138. Lien of mortgage not affected by tax sale.

139. Redemption by mortgagee before notice.

140. Cancellation of sales.

141. Setting aside cancellation of sale.

142. Expenses of sale.

143. Payment of moneys into state treasury.

120. Notice of sale. The comptroller may sell any lands heretofore or hereafter returned to him for nonpayment of any tax thereon, if such tax and the interest thereon, or any part thereof shall remain unpaid for one year after February first, following the year in which the tax was levied. He shall make out a list of all such lands in any county and transmit to the county treasurer thereof at least eighteen weeks before the commencement of the sale, a number of copies of such list sufficient to furnish five copies to the county treasurer, two copies to the county clerk and two copies to the clerk of each town and city in which such lands are situated. The county treasurer shall transmit the same to such officers. The comptroller shall publish such list with a notice, that on a day specified therein and the succeeding

days, so much of such lands as may be necessary to discharge the taxes, interest and charges due thereon at the time of sale, will be sold at public auction at the capitol in the city of Albany. Such list shall be inserted in two newspapers published in such county, once in each week for twelve successive weeks prior to the commencement of the sale, and in the body of the newspapers and not in a supplement. If there are not two newspapers published in the county, the publication shall be in two newspapers which the comptroller shall determine to be most generally circulated in the county. Due proof of the publication of such list and notice in each newspaper shall be made and filed in the office of the comptroller, within twenty days after the last publication. The expense of printing, publishing and transmitting such list shall be audited by the comptroller and paid out of the state treasury. No error in the description of the lands in any list published in any newspaper shall render any sale void or in any manner affect its validity.

§ 121. Maps to be furnished comptroller.-The comptroller may apply to the supervisor of any town for maps of any tract of land returned from such town for nonpayment of taxes, if he deem it necessary in order to test the correctness of the description thereof, preparatory to a sale of such lands, and the supervisor shall furnish such maps at the expense of the town, if they can be procured; if not, he shall furnish such descriptions of the lands as he can obtain, with a statement of the quantity in each subdivision, if the same is divided. The treasurer of every county shall, on receiving a list of lands to be sold at a state sale transmit to the comptroller at least one month before any state tax sale, a certified list of all lands bid in at any tax sale, in the name of such county, or transferred to such county upon any such sale, or to which the county may have acquired a tax title, the deed for which has not been recorded in the office of the clerk of the county, which may then be liable to be sold at such sale. Every county clerk shall, on receipt of a list of the lands therein liable to be sold at any state tax sale, and at least one month before the sale, transmit to the comptroller a certified list of all lands the conveyances of which are on record in his office, then owned by such county, and liable to be sold at such sale.

§ 122. Sale, how conducted. On the day mentioned in the notice of sale the comptroller shall commence the sale of the lands specified in the lists annexed to the notice, and continue the sale from day to day, until so much of each parcel shall be sold as will be sufficient to pay all the taxes thereon for the years for the taxes of which such sale shall be made, with the interest and charges thereon. In case no purchaser bids the amount due on any lot or parcel, the comptroller is authorized to bid in such lot or parcel for the state. The comptroller may, in his discretion, decline to receive any bid on any parcel of land, if in his opinion, it is made by or for any person not acting in good faith, and any such land shall be sold at such sale the same as if such bid had not been made thereon. And in case the land is located in a county outside the forest preserve, the comptroller may sell and assign the certificate therefor at any time before the expiration of the period for redemption, on such terms as to him shall seem for the best interests of the state.

§ 123. Purchases by the comptroller for state or county.— The comptroller shall bid in for the state all lands of the state, and also all lands which may have been bid in by or for the state at any tax sale which has not been canceled, or from which said lands have not been duly redeemed, liable to be sold at any tax sale held by him, or lands that are then mortgaged to the commissioners for loaning certain moneys of the United States and for each county, all lands belonging to such county liable to be sold at such sale, and also all lands which may have been bid in by or for such county at any tax sale which has not been canceled or from which said lands have not been duly redeemed; and to reject any and all bids made for any of such lands. The comptroller shall make certificates of sales for all lands so bid in by him, describing the lands purchased and specifying the time when a deed therefor can be obtained. Such purchases shall be subject to the same right of redemption as purchases by individuals; and if the land so sold shall not be redeemed, the comptroller's deed therefor shall have the same effect and become absolute in the same time, and on the performance of the like conditions, as in the case of sales and conveyances to individuals. The comptroller shall charge to each county,