THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 42. 1848. 227 passage of this act, no persons shall have been returned on the books of the said corporation as subject to a school-tax, then all persons who shall have been returned on the books of the said corporation as subject to a school-tax before the day of the said first election, and who shall in all other respects be qualified under this adt to vote, and who shall have paid the said school-tax and all taxes due on personal property, shall be entitled to vote at the said first election after the passage of this act. And if any person shall buy or sell a vote, or shall vote Penalty for more than once at any corporation election, held in pursuance of law, b“}’l;‘% °" *°lll“€ or shall give or receive any consideration therefor in money, goods, or if,,l,;€cg,i;in;;;;§ any other thing of value, or shall promise any valuable consideration, Mnor vote in consideration of such promise, he shall be disqualified forever thereafter from voting and holding any office under said corporation; and on complaint thereof to the attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia, it shall be the duty of said attorney to proceed against such offender or offenders by indictment and trial, as in other criminal cases; and if found guilty, it shall be the duty of the court to sentence him to pay a fine of not less than ten dollars, and to imprisonment not more than two months nor less than ten days. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That in case of the refusal of vacamygntha any person to accept the office of mayor upon his election thereto, or ¤Hi¤¤ <>l`m¤>’°F· of his death, resignation, inability, or removal from the city, the Board of Alderrnen and Board of Common Council shall assemble in joint meeting and elect another in his place to serve for the remainder of the term or during such disability; but in case of temporary absence from the city, or sickness, the mayor may, in writing, depute the president of the Board of Aldermen to act as mayor during such temporary absence or sickness. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That so much of the tenth sec- sm Orimirap tion of the act incorporating the inhabitants of the city of Washington, W65- approved May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, as is in the *820: °l'·1°‘*· following words, viz. : “That real property, whether improved or unimproved, in the city of `Washington, on which two or more years’ taxes shall have remained due and unpaid, or on which any special tax, imposed by virtue of authority of the provisions of this act, shall have remained unpaid for two or more years after the same shall have become due, or so much thereof, not less than a lot, (when the property on which the tax has accrued is not less than that quantity,) as may be necessary to pay any such taxes, with all legal costs and charges arising thereon, may be sold at public sale to satisfy the corporation therefor," be and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows, viz.: “That real property, whether improved or unimproved, in the city of Vlfashington, on which one or more years’ taxes shall have become due and remain unpaid, or on which any special tax imposed by virtue of authority of the provisions of this act, shall have become due and remain unpaid, or so much thereof, not less than a lot, when the property on which the tax has accrued is not less than that quantity,) as may be necessary to pay any such taxes, with all interests, costs, and charges arising thereon, may be sold at public sale to satisfy the corporation therefor."And so much of the third proviso of the tenth section of the said act incorporating the inhabitants of the city of Washington, approved May the fifteenth, eighteen hundred and 1820, ch.104·. twenty, as is in the following words, viz. : “That no sale shall be made, in pursuance of this section, of any improved property whereon there is personal property of sufncient value to pay the said taxes," be and the same is hereby repealed. And the authority given to the collector in the eleventh section of said act to postpone the sale of any property to a future day " for want. of bidders," shall be so construed_ as to authorize the postponement for any other reasonable cause, if, in the
