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 ,^3,0 FEDERAL REPORTER. �ihe refused to comply with said request, not only upon that occasion, but upon several subsequent interviews had during the monthsof March and April following.whenhe was visited for the like purpose. �The bill also alleges that on or about the fifth of May, �1873, the complainant, in company with her husband and one George Greeley, had another interview with the defend- ant in the city of Camden, having first obtained from the receiver of taxes a statement of the amount for whicii the property had been sold for taxes, and the several sums paid by the defendant, and then tendered to him in the presence of said witnesses $350, and requested him to take therefrom ail sums due to him by virtue of the tax sales, and to release and surrender the said real estate, and that the defendant refused to accept the said money, or any part thereof, or to release and surrender the said property; that another tender was made to the defendant in the presence of James and Tobias Johnson about the sixth day of October, 1874, of the 8um of $600, and still another of the thirty-first of October, �1874, by G. A. Bergen, Esq., on behalf of complainant, and in presence of George W. Humphreys, of the sum of $500, both of which were refused by the defendant, he alleging in both instances that the amounts so tendered were not suffi- cient to cover his payments and expenses, and at the same time refusing to give to complainant any statement of what sums he had paid and expended on account of the said real estate. �The bill further alleges that the complainant had been al- ways ready and willing, and was still ready, to pay to defend- ant ail amounts of money required to redeem said property, and prays that the defendant naay be decreed to surrender the possession of said real estate and promises; to release and quitclaim ail the defendant's (Butler's) right, title, and interest therein, acquired by virtue of said tax sales, and to pay to complainant an amount equal to ail the rents and profits accruing and received from said real estate from Feb- ruary 7, 1873, in excess of the amounts for which the prop- erty was sold for taxes. ��� �