McNulty v. Kansas City

— When city taxes on real estate in Kansas City become delinquent, payment thereof is enforced by a sale of each delinquent tract to a purchaser who pays to the city the unpaid tax, with interest, penalties and costs, and receives from the city treasurer a Certificate of Purchase acknowledged by him before one of the clerks in his office who holds a notary *563public’s commission for this purpose. For this acknowledgment the sum of fifty cents is included in the amount paid to the city by the purchaser, that being the fee allowed by statute to a notary for taking and certifying to an…