Pennsylvania Act 1895-32 — SURPLUS BONDS AT TAX SALES, RECORDATION

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SURPLUS BONDS AT TAX SALES, RECORDATION
                   Act of May 8, 1895, P.L. 47, No. 32                Cl. 53
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the acknowledgment and recording of surplus bonds
        given by purchasers at tax sales of real estate for the
        surplus money remaining after paying the taxes and costs to
        the county treasurer.

        Section 1.  Surplus bonds; acknowledgment; record
        After the passage of this act, all surplus bonds given by
     purchasers at tax sales of real estate shall be acknowledged by
     the obligor or maker before any officer competent to take
     acknowledgment of deeds, after which they shall be deposited
     with the county treasurer before the deed for the land upon
     which such surplus bond is lifted by the purchaser.  It shall be
     the duty of the count treasurer to have all such surplus bonds
     deposited with him forthwith recorded, in full in the office of
     the prothonotary of the court of common pleas of the county
     wherein the lands sold lie, and the prothonotary shall provide a
     book or books at the expense of the county, to be entitled,
     "surplus bond record," in which shall be indexed in alphabetical
     order in the name of the purchaser or obligor who gave the bond,
     with the amount and date of the same, and after record of said
     surplus bond the same shall be filed in the prothonotary's
     office as is now provided by law.  1895, May 8, P.L. 47, Sec. 1.
        Section 2.  Fees for recording bond; certified copies to be
     evidence
        The prothonotary shall receive from the purchaser or obligor
     who gave the bond the sum of fifty cents for recording and
     indexing any such surplus bond, and shall, when requested, give
     certified copies of the same, and such certificate shall be
     received in evidence the same as the original instrument.  1895,
     May 8, P.L. 47, Sec. 2.