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I'ecover tbeir share and inttiiost iu said lands, and to hold the same, 



with the purchasers, as tenants in common. 

 Act March 9, 1847, section 3, (P. L., page 279). 



43. In cases of sales' of tracts of unseated lands for taxes, which 



may be interfered with b}' surveys or titles of other claimants, such 



claimants are authorized, within two years from date of sales, to 



tender amount of taxes upon so much of said tracts as are included 



within the lines under which claimants hold title, and costs, and 



their proportionate amount of the additional twenty-five per cent., 



and county treasurer is required to receive and receipt for the same, 



and pay it over to the purchasers, on demand; and said redemption 



to be as effectual for protection of claimants' title within the lines 



of their surveys or claims as if the redemption had been made for and 



included all the land within the lines of said interferences. 

 Act April 3, 1862, (P. L., page 228). 



44. Eedemption moneys paid by lien creditors to be liens ujjou 



such title of debtors as would have passed to purchasers under the 



sale, if no redemption had been made, and to have priority over 



other liens against the same title. ■ Lien creditors or their legal 



representatives thus redeeming lands, to have claims or receipts 



for redemption money entered as costs on the record where the lien 



is entered or recorded; and said claim to be treated as docket costs 



in the proper judgment or mortgage lien, and to be preferred in 



the distribution of the proceeds of any subsequent sale of said 



property. 



Act May 15, 1874, (P. L., page 192). 



45. Value of improvements to be recovered in all cases where a 

 recovery is effected against a purchaser at a sale for taxes, or other 

 person claiming under him; such recovery to be an incident iu all 

 cases where there is a recovery against the tax title, without regard 

 to the nature of the defects of said title; and whenever any person 

 claiming under such tax title may be out of possession, and on ac- 

 count of defects in the title fail to recover the land, the jury, under 

 the direction of the court, to assess the value of the improvements, 

 and fix the time within which the assessment shall be paid by the 

 defendant. If the assessment is not paid within the time specified 

 by the jury, the title of the plaintiff to land in disput(? to be con- 

 firmed as against defendant and all claiming under him. On failure 

 to pay such assessment, a writ of habere facias possessionem may 

 issue forthwith, without any other proceeding; and in all cases 

 where a recovery is had against a defendant claiming under a tax 

 title, the jury assessing the value of the improvements to find the 

 time, under the direction of the court, within which the assessment 



