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land under cultivation, on, and surrounding the premises.

Soon after the 1st Tax-sale Mr L.D. Stickney, one of the Tax Commissioners, declared that sale invalid, and managed to secure another sale at which the property was purchased by a party in New York, called the "Tropical Manufacturing Company." It has since been proven that the 1st sale was valid, by the Report of Judge Austin Smith since appointed Tax Commissioner - who was sent by the Treasury Department at Washington, to investigate matters connected with this 1st Sale. His report sustained the 1st Sale, and has since been adopted by that Department.

Owing to statements made by Mr Stickney that the title given at the 1st Sale was invalid, and supposing at the time, that he spoke with authority as a Commissioner; having his assurance that he would do all in his power to make valid our title, and learning that he had said no favor would be shown those who did not yield their certificates before the pending sale, advertised to come off within a few days from the time of these assertions, the certificate was yielded to Mr Stickney, and the money received back. The sale then advertised to come off within a few days, was postponed from time to time, until