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HODGDON V. BUBLEIGH. 119 �iiewspaper of the state printer three weeks successively. County taxes on such township or iract were to be oertified by the county treasurer to the state treasurer, who was to credit the county mih the amount. The owuer of any tract 80 assessed for state or county tax, advertised as aforesaid by the treasurer, might, at any time within four years (after- ■wards increased to five) from passing the act of assessment, redeem the same from any state tàx by paying the full amount of the tax, with 20 per cent, interest, after one year from date of assessment ; and from any county tax, by paying the amount credited by the state treasurer to the county, "with like interest, within four years from the date of such credit; and if not so paid it was provided "that said town- , ship or tract shall be wholly forfeited, and the title thereto shall vest in the state, free and quit from ail claims by any former owner, and the same shaU be held and owned by the state, by a title declared to be perfect and indefeasible." This act remained in force until August 1, 1841, when it was repealed by the Eevised Statutes. �These provisions were substantially re-enacted by chapter 14 of the Eevised Statutes of 1841, but the last publication wàs to be made by the state treasurer within three months from the day on which the assessment was made by the legis- lature. Some conflict is found between sections 8 and 9 of this chapter as to the time within which the payment was to be made by the land pwner, but the same is of no importance in the decision of this case, as such payments were never made. The title which the state acquired by the forfeiture for the non-payment of the taxes was declared to be perfect and indefeasible, in the identical language used in, the former act. �The tax for 1841 was laid under the act of 1836. Those for 1842 to 1846, inclusive, were laid under the Eevised Stat- utes, and it appears that notice of the assessment of the state tax for these varions years was each year duly published, in accordance with the reqnirements of law, with the exception of the year 1842, the notice for which year was inserted in only one week's issue of the state paper. Nq objection is ����