141.880. Collector may employ abstracter--duties--fee (St. Louis). - Missouri Statutes

Collector may employ abstracter--duties--fee (St. Louis).

141.880. 1. The collector may employ some competent andreliable abstracter of his city to prepare memorandums ofabstract to the land described in the tax bills furnished by thecollector.

2. The abstracts shall show all conveyances, liens andcharges against such real estate as shown by the records of suchcity, and shall be certified by the abstracter.

3. The abstracts shall be delivered to the tax attorney whoshall file them with the petitions and shall become the propertyof the purchaser at the tax sale.

4. The abstracter shall receive as compensation a sum not toexceed five dollars for each abstract furnished which sum shallbe taxed as costs and paid as other costs in the case.

(RSMo 1939 §§ 11199, 11200, A.L. 1947 V. I p. 538, A. 1949 S.B. 1024)