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(b) The City of Santa Ana will then offer to the record owner of each lot so purchased from the County, a small sum of money in cash for a quitclaim deed to such lots. At this point the city will have a good and marketable title to any such lots for which it holds quitclaim deeds, thereupon the City will cancel all city ~axes and penalties, to date, against such lots. (c) In part consideration for the above described quitclaim deeds, the City will in each case, where requ&sted, execute an option in favor of the former owner. This option will be for a limited period only (thirty days) and will provide that the City will re-convey to the former owner any grant deed, his lot, upon his payment in Full covering all improvement bond assessments against such lots to date. (d) Under this plan any lots not redeemed prior to the expiration of said option, will be owned by the City of Sauta Ana in fee, without the necessary litigation to clear up the title. (e) Where quitclain deeds to the lots involved in this sale are not secured quickly and at a very small cost, the City will immediately institute a court action to quiet its title to such lots as are secured under tax deed. (f) Upon the COurt decree, granting title to ~he City (it is expected that most parties will default, by failing to answer the city's complaint), the city will then hold good title and will then cancel all taxes and penalties outstanding against these lots and will then sell said lots to the best advantage of the city. (g) If it is fouud that some of these lots cannot be sold for the full amount of the improvement bonds outstanding against them, then it is the intention of the City of Santa Aha to make such sales at the best price obtainable on the present market, so as to get this property back on the assessment rolls. (h) It is net too early to start now to have this group of lots ready for sale to the public during the next spring and sun~uer. Any and all lots to which the city has perfected its title, will be o~fered for sale in groups of fifty to one hundred lots, for cash to the highest and best bidder. It is expected that a sale in groups of around one hundred lots will compel the successful bidder to support the real estate market. Section 4 of Assembly Bill 1129, being Chapter No. 396 of the Statutes of 1935 is pertinent to this plan and reads as follows: "The facts constituting such necessity are as follows: Due to the depression which has existed in the past several years many landowners have been unable to Meet the taxes and assessments levied by the State, political subdivisions, agencies, reclamation, drainage and levee districts, with the result that their lands have been sold to the State and such taxing and assessing agencies. The heavy penalties assessed by law, have made it impossible for the landowners to redeem their lands, hence ~housands of acres of land (together with thousands of lots), have been sold for the non-payment of such taxes and assessments, and deeds have been executed thereon to the State and such taxing and assessing agencies. That as long as such lands (or lots) remain State lands, the same are non-assessable for tax or assessment purposes, and the tax and assess- ment burden becomes heavy upon the paying lands, causing more delinquencies and los sess The legislature hereby declares that the welfare of the State requires that such lands (or lots) be placed in p~ivate ov~ershi~ as promptly as possible so that such land (or lots) henceforth bear its Just proportion of current taxation and assessments." PLAN dated January 17th, 1938.