The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1816-07-29
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AN ACT

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tanning the public credit, by laying a
direct tax upon the United States
and to provide for assessing and col.
lec,ing the same.
Del enoc,ed by fhe seuafe house o,
yehrtsenfdtipes Of fhe United States 81
america, in Congyess assembled, tn;
4 regard TO the direct tax imposed b,
tho act OK congress, passed the fifth q
March, one thousand eight hundrc.
and sixteen and to any other direc. ia
iha, may be hereafter imposed, th,
epumerations, valua ions, and assess
ments first m de, or to be made. in vii
tue of the 81 act 10 provide sdditiona
revenues for defraviDg the expenses o'
government, and maintaining the pub.
lie credit. by laying direct tax upor
the United States, and to provide for
assessing and collecting the same"
passed the 9Th Of January, one thousand
eight hundred and fifteen, shall remain
unchanged, except insomuch as the
respective amounts OF tax may be al.
Sected by the augmentation or dminu.
zion OF the aggregate tax laid, or 20 BE-
laid, and the property SO enumerated
valued, and assessed, shall continue
liable, with such qualifications, TO the
taxes so assessed, subject only to the
changes hereinafter provided for, and
so those tina, may arise from the COR
rection Of errors as authorised by the
last rccited act.
Sec. 3. .drd Be ts further enacted,
Tina, the changes 10 be made in the
said enumerations, valuations, and as
easements, and in the subsequent revi-
sions thereof, shall be relative 10 the
FRS, day of June in the present year,
and in every subsequent year in which
q c'irect tax moy be imposed, shall be
effected by the principal assessors,
without the employment OF a:sislan;
assessors, and shall extend To the
supplying emissions OF as.essable pro.
perry, to the transfers of real estate and
slaves, to the changes of residents aud
non residents, TO the burning or des-
tructiou of houses OF other fixed i'm
movements of real estate, to- the ex
emplion OF property that may lave
ceased 10 be assable, and to the assess.
,nent OF property that may have ceased
be exempted from assessment, TO
such other cases as the secretary Of the
treasury may End il necessary in the
Furtherance of Justice specially to au
fborise, and 10 the birth or death of
slaves, or their running away, or other,
misc becoming useless PrSUided, that
ebaug : ia the last case shall be sole
~ where the tag standing ehargeabie
10 any person for slaves would be di
unfinished by the valuation on the said
Arst day oil June Of all those then own.
cd by such person, excepting those OBJ
tanned by transfer, in which case the
reduction in the valuation shall be
equal 10 the difference between the a.
mount of the original aud existing va
1ualion.
Sec 2. .And be IL further enacted
That it shall be the duty of each OF the
principal assessors, within fifteen days
from the first of June, to attend in
nerson, or IN case OF his sickness, by
. deputy to be appointed by him, at six
several places within his district mosl
convenient to the inhabItan' s, the couri
houses being of the number, except
where they exceed six, and then at
each court house within the district.
for one full day at each place, for the
purpose of receiving any Information
as to the changes, as aforesaid, which |
may have taken place since the pre-
ceding assessment or revision, which
information shall he gwen in writing
under the signature Of the person
whose tax NAV be affected thereby oil
" which attendance and the object there
of the said incipal assessor shall, on
or before the fifteenth day of May pre-
ceding, cause notice to be given, which
notice shall be inserted three times
weekly in all the newspapers publish
ed within his district, and in handbilIs
90 be posted up at all the court houses
therein causing, at the same time and
in the same mode, notice TO be given
that he viii attend to hear Appeals re-
lative TO any such changes at the times
aud places hereinafter specified there
fer.
Sec. 4. .And be IL jurthev enacted. |
That each of the said principal asse
sors shall, within ten days after the said
fifteen days according to the in(orma
tion so received, or to any other inlor- |
nation satisfactory to him, revise the |
general lists for his district, and noe
in supplementary form such changes
as shall appear TO him TO have occurred, |
anJ shall. ,yjthin the said term of L d