The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1841-11-30

mules asses, cattle, and sheep except MS ~ hereih
before exempted owned by such person liable To
TAXATION in such town.
SEooNp. The amount of public stock or secu.
rites, and the number of shares in any moneyed
other corporation, with the value thereof, desig
nn,ing the corporation, and If more than one, the
number OF shares in each.
Third The amount of all debts due from sol.
won't debtors, and money loaned and debts securod
real estate, and all other personal estate liable
taxation specified in the third section of this
| act, over and above the amount of the debts due
from snch person the first day Of April
FOURTH. The assessors in each town shall, on
he fore the first dav in July in each year prepare
and deposite in the Office of the clerk in such
town general list of the taxable estate in their
respective towns, in six separate columns, as io''
lows:
LIST. In the first column the name OF each taxable
person.
2d The number Of polls and the amount at
which the same is TO be set in the list by The fourth
section Of this act
3d. The quantity of real estate owned or occu-
! pied by such person
4,h. In The fourth column the full value of
5th. In the filth column the full value Of all the
taxable personal estate owned by such person, af-
| ter drducung The inst debts owed by him.
| 9Th In the sixth column shall be set the ono
per ccutum on the value of all real aud personal
estate, together with the amount OF the polls,
which sum shall he the amount on which all taxes
shall be made assessed, and the assessors shalt
mt the me iime dpposite in the town clerk $ oil
flee The ndiv idua lists by them made ms aforesaid.
! SIC. Is. When any person shall be assessed,
as trustee, guardian executor, or administrator the
assessment made shall be set in the list separate
from his indiv idua assessment, and with the addi-
ton of his representative character, and the Just
ebs due from him, in his represcnive character,
shall be deducted from the value of the personal
estate assessed TO him In such character, ana from
no other estate.
SIC. l6 In case the owner of any unoccuPied
real estate shall be unknown to the assessors, the
same shall be the list, either IN the name oi
| tta iuip Inv
in the judgment OF the assessors shall best desg
nate the same.
SEC. IL. lrany person whose estate shall have
| been so assessed, shall feel himsef aggreved by
such assessment, such person may, within thirty
days after surh list shall have been deposited in
| the town clerks office aforesaid make application
| 10 the listers in writing 10 have his assessment
reduced or vacated; the listers may examine such
person on oath in clinton thereto, and after such
hearing shall assess such person, from the evi-
dence, they shall deem just and equitable, which
assessment sha II he taken the assessment OF such
person Such applicant shall not, in such examin-
alton by tho listers, he required 10 disclose the
| names cr persons who may he ted To- him
SEC. 10 II shall be the duty of the assessors IN
each to IN in the month of September oreach year
To meet and revise aud correct all errors that mny
be discovered in The list Of such town ,ngreaaby to
the provisions of This act, and make duplicates
thereof, of which shall be deposi cd with the
town clerk of sueh town and the other shall be de-
ivercd To the Clerk Of The House of Representa-
lives before the Cd Thursday OF Oct. in each
and shall further be The du'y oil me listers
Of each town, in the f II week in Sep
temher, in the wear of our Lord thousand eigh,
hundred and forty two, and the first week in Sep
tember every FIVE years thereafter, to meet and
designate Of said listers assessors, whose
duty il shall he meet the usual place of bold
ing county courts in such county, except that the
listers in the county Of Bennington shall meet at
The stone church in Arlington, aud the listers in
the county Of Chiuenden AT the town house in
in Wiliston, the third Tuesday in September
aforesaid, and such listers or assessors, $" met,
shall appoint moderator to govern said meeting,
and proceed TO average The valuation of the real
estate of the several towns in their respective cOun
ties. justly and equitably, comparing one with the
other, deducting from or adding 10 tho valuation
of sad amount, so assessed, as they may deem
proper; and the listers or assessors, 81 met shall
cause certificate to be endorsed such Isis, de-
scTibing such alterations they may deem proper
TO make, which certificate shall be signed by the
chairman of SAID meeting; and such lists shall be
returned 10 their respective towns, so certified and
averaged; and such lists so returned, and Ger
tilted, shall stand for the valuation of real estate for
the succeeding five years; and such lists having
been thus returned and certified, and sent to the
legislature of the state, and there averaged and
eqaazcd by committee to be appointed by said
legislature consisting Of ono member from eac b
county, adding to or deduc,ing from, as the case
may be, aud certified by said committee shall he
The list upon which state tnxes shall he made for
the five succeeding years, together with The list OF
the personal esta te as heieIniore provided.
SEo: ID. Such listers or assessors shall attach TO
each lis certificate. signed by such listers, and
verified by oath before justice of the peace;whch
oath shall be in the form fnIlirg, to wit awe do
soemnly swear that we have sci down all the real
estate situated IN the town Of according |
to the best OF our information, and we have estma.
ted The value OF such real estnte at such as
we would apprnse the same in payment Of just |
debt due from a solvent debtor, and the list aiore
said contain true statement of the aggregate a. |
mount of tho taxable personal estate OF each person
named in sucli list, over and above tho debts due
from such persons respectively, and that. with the
exception Of those cases in which tho vaue of such
personal estate has been sworn to by The own
er, have estimated the Same according to our
best information and belief
SEC. 20 1t shall be the duty Of the cashiers of
the era banks and Of the clerks of all other
corporations within this state, TO transmit to the
clerks OF The several towns within this stae IN
which any stock holder of such bank or other cor
poraton may reside, true lit of the names of all
such Stockholders with The number oishares stand
ing against the names Of all such stockholders, on
The books of such bank or other corporation, to-
gether with the amount actually paid in on each
share, the first day OF April in each year here
after. .,#aai.s a.t.t r
. SEC. 81. The Clerk of the House Of Represen-
atives shall at the expense of the state, 10
be printed and distributed to thetown clerks of:hc