New Jersey § acts:saved-54 - (1)

§ acts:saved-54. (1)

1. Whenever a title to land has vested under a deed given by the comptroller or collector

of taxes of any municipality, which recites that the same was made, executed and delivered

pursuant to an act of the legislature of the state of New Jersey, passed March thirtieth,

one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An act concerning the settlement

and collection of arrearages of unpaid taxes, assessments and water rates or water

rents, in cities of this state, and imposing and levying a tax, assessment and lien

in lieu and instead of such arrearages, and to enforce the payment thereof, and to

provide for the sale of lands subjected to future taxation and assessment,” and in

said deed it is recited that the report of the commissioners appointed in pursuance

to said act has been confirmed in manner therein provided, and a certified copy of

said report filed as in said act required, and that the comptroller or collector of

taxes, as the case might be, had given, or caused to be given, notice by advertisement,

as in said act required, and that sale thereof had been made at public auction to

the highest bidder of the lands described in said deed, and that the said comptroller

or collector of taxes did execute and deliver to the said purchaser a certificate

of sale, as provided in said act, and that such certificate of sale had been surrendered

to said comptroller or collector of taxes and proof duly made by affidavit that notice

of said sale in writing had been given in the manner prescribed by said act to every

person who had an estate in or mortgage upon said lands and premises, whose estate

or lien appears of record in the county wherein the lands described in said certificate

were situate, and that no person had redeemed said lands and premises in the manner

set forth in said act, nor in any manner, the same shall be conclusive and absolute,

and the title so vesting by virtue of such deed is hereby validated and confirmed;

provided, that such deed shall have been of record in any county clerk's or registrar's

office for more than thirty years.