The Tax Title Law

Attorney General JVlaynard saye: "The legislatnre will fail of doing its dnty to the people if it does not pass the bill amending the law relative to tax deeds. Af ter years of patiënt effort Michigan has finally secnred a general tax law, which is of great valne to the state. The hgbt for years was between the state officials on the one hand and the owners of large traots of land oo the other, the latter standing in the way of the enaotment of any law whioh would ruake it less profltable for them to perrnit tbeir property to be returned delinquent for taxes and sold and break the tax titles in the conrts, than to pay the taxes. "In the final defeat of these selfisb citizeus the state has obtaiued a tax law whioh can be objected to only becanse it iu some instanoes operates as a legalized robber under the reoent strict rnlings of the snpreme oonrt. The amendment to whioh I refer reqnires tbat when a person obtains a tax deed to a piece of property it shall be issued on the oondition that, if the last reoord owner of the fee to the property is a resident of the state, he shall be given personal notice of such and permitted to have one more chance to redeem his property by payiug the taxes aod costs, together with a penalty to the tax title mau of whatever percentage on the latter's investment the legislatnre sees fit to fix. "If the last record owner be a nonresident then notice should be given by pnblication. Under the present law not a week passes that 1 do not receive a nnmber of letters from persons who, for their inability to raise the moncy or because of the neglect of their agents, or some other canse for which they were not personally responsible, have lost valnable real estáte to persons who paid practically nothing for it. This, I say, is legalized robbery, and it should be abolished."