Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-03-16
section of the act for assessing and col

section Of the act for assessing and col
lectlng county revenue.
Sec. II. No road Supervisor shall be
allowed more than ten days services as
supervisor any road district, and the
services OF the supervisor of roads or any
other person shall hereafter be one dollar
and fifty cents, for one days services, each
on the road and no more; and every per-
son working on the road shall actually
work on the road eight hours in each
day.
SEC. u. All taxes except road taxes
levied by the board Of County Commits
7sioners shall be based upon an estimate by
them made, which estimate shall be enter
ed upon the journals Of said board, and the
rate of taxation in the several counties
shall be as follows:
For the payment Of county charges, in
GLIDING only the expenses Of courts and
the fees Of officers for performing duties
required by law, not exceeding three mills
on the dollar.
For the support Of the poor, not exceed
ing one mill on the dollar.
For viewing and laying out county roads
cnl building county bridges, not-exceeding
one mill on the dollar.
For contingent expenses, not exceeding
one and half mills on the dollars.
For the support of the schools and the
erection o. school houses, not exceeding
two and half MI on the dollar
Ps'ocided, That nothing ID this act con-
tanned, shall prohibit the County Commits
sioners Of Milwaukee from raising suHi.
cient sum of money to defray the expen-
ses Of building the bridge authorised by
law TO be bull; across the Milwaukee river
nor TO prohibit the Commissioners Of RAJ
cine county from raising an additional
sum, not exceeding three thousand dollars
to discharge the afrearage debt Of said
county.
Sec. ID. The severaltaxes authorised
TO be levied shall be designated Oh the tax
roll in sepera;c and distinct columns, and
the sums Of money thus raised, shall not
be appropriated by the County Commits
sioners to any ether than the purposes for
which they were levied and collected.
SEC. ii. The County Commissioners
may establish in the several towns and
counties as many road districts as they
shall deem necessary, and may appoint
one supervisor to each district.
SEC. 10. That 50 much Of the forty
first section af the act row in force as pro-
vides that each collector shall be entitled
for his services. to five dollars foo every
one hundred dollars Of county taxes by him
collected, is hereby repealed: Provided
however. that each collector shall be enti-
tied to retain five per cent of the county
tax collected by him for his services, un-
til the sum collected by him amounts to
four thousand dollars; and for any balance
that the tax of any county may exceed said
sum OF four thousand dollars, the said colec-
tor shall receive and retain two per cent for
collecting The same; and provided also, that
the other fees of the collector for services
shall be the same as now autho rised by
law, except that the collector shall not re-
ceive more than twelve and a half cents
for each certificate Of lot or tract of land
sold for taxes. nor shall the County Com
missioners make an allowance to any COM
missioner or viewer Of roads for his servi-
ces, exceeding one dollar and fifty cents
per day.
Sec. IS. This act shall take effect from
and after its passage.
Approved, Feb. 10Th, 1S4I.
HENRY DODGE.