Mr. MORRILL. I move now that the senate proceed to the consideration of Senate bill No. 825. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in ComWhole, proceeded to consider the bill (S.No.325) to give certain powers to the levy court of the county of Wash m ton, in the DistCol. n addition to the existing remedy by distress for the recovery of taxes due to the levy court in the county of Washington, real rop erty in the county, outside the corporate imits of Georgetown and Washington, on which one year’s taxes shall be due and unpaid, or so much thereof, not less than one acre, (where the property on which the tax has accrued is not ess than that quantity,) as may be necessary to pay such taxes, with all legal costs and charges arising thereon, may be sold at public sale, to satisfy the taxes and expenses, y the collector appointed by the levy court. Public notice is to e given of the time and place of sale by advertising once a week for 8 successive weeks in some news aper ublished in the city of Washington, inw icha vertisement shall be given a suilicient and definite description of the property selected for sale, the name of the person to whom it is assessed, and the aggregate amount of taxes due thereon. The purchaser is to say, at the time of sale, the amount of taxes uc on the property so purchased, with the amount of expenses of sale, and to pay the residue of the purchase money within ten days after the expiration of 2 years from the day of sale, to the collector or other officer of the levy court authorized to receive the same, and the amount of the resi due is to be placed in the treasury of the levy court, subject to the order of the original prorietor or proprietors of the property sold, his, er, or their legal representatives, and the purchaser is to receive a title thereto in fee simple, by deed, under the hand of the president of the levy court and its seal, which shall be deemed good and valid in law and equity; but if within 2 years from the day of sale, or before the purchaser or purchasers shall have paid the resi no, if any, of the purchase money, the prorietor or prorietors of any property thus sol, his, her, or t ieir agents or legal representatives shall repay to the purchaser the money paid for es and expenses, together with 10% or anuum as interest thereon, or make a tender thereof, or deposit the same with the treasurer of the lev court‘or other officer authorized to receive it for the use of the purchaser and subject to his order, he, she, or they shall be reinstated in his, her, or their original right and title, as if no such sale had been made. If any purchaser shall fail to pay the residue of the purchase money within the time required for any property so purchased by him, he shall pay 10% or annum, as interest thereon, in addition to teresidue, from the expiration of the 2 years until the actual payment of the residue and the receiving of a conveyance, and this interest shall alike be subject to the order of the original proprietor or proprietors as the residue of the purchase money; but no sale is to be made of any improved property whereon there is personal property of sufficient value to pay the taxes, nor of such improved property whereou there is not such personal property until the collector shall 1st file a sworn return with the clerk of the levy court that there is no such personal property, which return shall be primafacie proof of that fact. Mine rs, uiort agees, 1 and others having equitable liens or 0t ier in l |l torests, as creditors, in real property sold for taxes shall he allowed one year after such mi nors” coming to full age, or after such mort gagees, or others having equitable interests, obtaining possession of, or a decree for the sale of. such property, to redeem the same from the pure aser, his heirs, or assigns, on paying the amount of the purchase money, with 10%. interest thereon perannum, and the value of any improvements erected on the property by the purchaser or his assigns while in his possession. The collector may postpone, afler advertisement, the sale of the property advertised to any future day, for want 0t bi ders, or other reasonable cause, giiving public notice of the postponement; an the sale made at such postponed time shall be equally valid as if made on the day stated in the advertisement. The collector of the levy court is to have authority to collect any tax lawfully imposed by the court, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person chargeable t cre with, wherever the same may be found in the county of Washington, out of the corporate limits of the cities of Washington and George town; but no such sale shall be made unless ten days' previous notice thereof be given in some newspaper printed in the city of Wosli in on. The ComDistCol proposed to amend the bill by adding the fol owmg additional section: SEC. 4. Abife: That it shall not be necessar that the said levy courtshall have not equally paid the portion of the generalexpensesof the countyof Washington or any other oxntmses.a portion of which either of the cities of Washiizgtonor Georgetown is liable for, to enable the said port to demandof either of said cities paymentof its proportion of said expenses alreadyincurred or for the supremecourtof the manly in DistCol tonotsum to the protvhiesiomn astotfertahnedpe goveuudlyizment. according 1. 1812e.ntitle “An act conferringcertain powerson the levy court for the county 0 Washington, in the DistCol."