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 •H'6. r FEDEB Ail REPORTEE. �owners thereof shall have a right to retleem the same within one year from said time of sale, by paying to said purchaser or assigns the amount for which the same was sold as afore- Baid, with interest thereon at the rate of 20 par cent, per annum, and the cost of reconveying the same. �"In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Cony, in my said capacity, have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. Samuel Cony. [l. s.] �"Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of "Wm. Coulter." �The next deed is from Cony, as land agent, ta Hodgdon, is dated April 30, 1850, and is substantially like the former deed, reciting that the list of unpaid taxes was furnished by McDonald, as state treasurer, March25, 1850; that the prem- ises thereinafter described were sold April 80, 1850, at pub- lic auction, to Hodgdon; and that due notice was givenof the time and place of sale by publishing the same three weeks successively in the state paper. The description of' the es- tate conveyed is as follows: " 14,800 acres of .land in town- ehip Noi 8, in the third range, weat from the east line df the state, it being the balance of said town returned to me by the treasurer as forfeited for: the non-payment of taxes for the year 1845." �The third deed is from A. P. Morrill, land agent, to Hodg- don, dated April 30, 1851, and recites that the list of unpaid taxes for 1846 was furnished by the treasurer to the land agent, March 17, 1851. The sale was made April 30, 1851, and the land agent did thereby sell and convey to said Hodg- don ail the right, title, and interest which the state of Maine had, by virtue of the forfeiture, in and to 700 acres of land in township No. 8, range 3, �The last deed was September 27, 1854, and was from the fitate treasurer to MeCrillis, the law having been changed, so ihat the offieer executed the conveyance instead of the land agent. It purported to convey the interest of the state in 4,340 acres in township numbered 8, range 3, the same being forfeited for non-payment of $29.19, including its proportion ����