Unplatted lots taxed

In any municipal corporation in which the power exists to impose taxes on lots when platted and recorded, the corporation shall also have power to impose taxes upon parcels of land laid off into lots and sold and leased by metes and bounds, though they shall not have been platted or recorded. Acts 1875, No. 1, § 68, p. 1; C. & M. Dig., § 7580; Pope's Dig., § 9659; A.S.A. 1947, § 19-4502. In any municipal corporation in which the power exists to impose taxes on lots when platted and recorded, the corporation shall also have power to impose taxes upon parcels of land laid off into lots and sold and leased by metes and bounds, though they shall not have been platted or recorded. Acts 1875, No. 1, § 68, p. 1; C. & M. Dig., § 7580; Pope's Dig., § 9659; A.S.A. 1947, § 19-4502.