Show MANY REDEEM LAND DEEDED TO COUNTY 1 Attorney General I General I PolIcy Policy Pol- Pol icy hi Matter JlII I of Property Taken for or Ta o Attorney General M. M r. r A. A Breeden yesterday yesterday yes yes- es gave gaYl an opinion to the effect that hat an owner of oC property sold sohl for 01 taxes cannot after four yar ears redeem the property as a matter mattei of or right but adds that the county commissioners com corn missioners would be he warranted In permitting per per- the original owner or 01 one haIng hasing having has hav ing a n redeemable interest t therein to redeem It even o after the property had hael been heen deeded to the county The Tho latter latter lat lat- lat lat- ter tei action according to Gen Breeden would woul 1 b be the cl exercise of a generous policy by h the county board and not a a. mandatory obligation resting upon it it Tho The opinion b by the attorney general was written In III reply to an un Inquiry from To Jos ios Stanford chairman of the board hoard of commissioners of oC county Apart A Apart part of oC the opinion reads You arc are advised 1 that no one but hut the original or some ono one Interested Inter Intel e ested sted te In the property has a right to re redeem redeem redeem re- re deem it and when such original owner 01 or one Interested In the tho property falls fails to redeem within the statutory period and the property is offered for sale under the act of oC 1903 and falls 10 to the county for fOI or the the- reason that there are arc areno areno no bidders it then becomes the property property prop prop- erty crt of the county absolutely ab and the the- right of oC the owner to is forfeited for for- felted felled and cut off but nevertheless s It ItIs ItIs itIs Is not the policy of the law to confiscate con con- liscate or deprive i a per person on of or his property prop prop- erty without full tuB compensation |