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Sales Of Forfeited Lands IN Virginia. Up
wards of $4,000 acres of these lands will be offered
for sale in Richie County on the 4th, and in Wood
County on the 9TH November next Previous
sales 1t is said, have contributed to the settlement
and improvement of this section the State The
lands sold, we are told, embrace only those which
were not delinquent previous to April 1894, and
none of those now offered have been entered for
taxation or paid one cent of lakes since 1914
The rights and Interests, of the former proprietors
are provided fo:, as the surplus proceeds OF the
sales, after lying taxes, damages and expenses are
paid over to them, the taxes previous to 1914 re-
linquished the rate for the succeeding five years
reduced from an average of8O cents to 12 1-2 and
the damages on the whole from 10 to 6 per cent
or merely legal interest-the great leading object
to be accomplished, would seem TO give TO, these
sales a prroprley and validity. not likely to be
questioned, and to avoid the popular objections to
the ordinary tax sales So : ,bl. 5sJ .- v


a-- The Rocksburg Gazette, fromswhich we gath
er these facts represents that place as greatly i'm
proving. The lands now offered for sale are situ-
ated on and near the Northwestern and Stanton
Turnpikes, and the Little Kanawha river. ..;-