Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-05-02

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the votes as is required in the last named
section. The poll book kept at every
town meeting shall be deposited with the
town clerk.
SEC. 8. The reading Of the statement
Of the result Of the canvass by the clerk
of any town meeting. as required by law,
shall be deemed notice OF the result Of the
election to every person whose name shall
have been entered on the poll list as a vo-
ter.
Sec. 9. The town clerk of every town
within ten days after any town meeting
shall transmit to each person elected 70 any
town Office, whose name shall not have been
entered on the poll list as voter, or when
no poll list shall have been kept, notice
Of his election.
SEC. 10. The canvass ofthe votes given
at any town meeting, or election, may be
had or continued after sun down.
SEC. IL. Any person elected or appoin-
ted to the office of town clerk, may file his
oath Of Office, as soon as the same shall be
taken and duI Y certified.
Sec. II. The time allowed to the col
lectors Of the several towns in which to
make returns Of their transcript rolls, to-
gether with the precepts and doings there
on to the town clerks office, is hereby ex
tended to the third Monday Of January in
each year; and the time allowed such COL
lectors in which to pay over the amount Of
all taxes collected by them, is hereby ex.
tended TO the fourth Monday Of January in
each year.
Sec. l3. Hereafter the town clerks Of
each town shall make out and forward to
the county treasurer Of the proper county,
the certificate and attested copy Of the
collectors affidavit, as required by the 10th
section Of part first. chapter tenth, of the
act Of which this is amendatory, on or be.
fore the first Monday Of January, in each
year.
SEC. H. No collector or his sureties
shall be liable on his bond, as provided by
the thirteenth section Of part first, chapter
tenth Of the act Of which this is amendato-
ry, for failing to pay over to the treasurer
Of any county as required by law, any por
ton Of the tax due such county; provided.
it shall be made to appear that such por
lion not paid over, could not be collected on
the precrpt or warrant Of such collector.
SEC Is. IF. after the Supervisors have
made out the corrected assessment rolls, it
shall be ascertained that any land or prop
ertv liable TO taxation, and which should be
included therein, is not so included by rea-
son that the same has not been assessed.
or from any other cause. then il shall be the
duv Of the town supervisors Of the proper
Do(n tho CT
Of January next, thereafter. 10 assess such
land or property SO omitted if not al
ready assessed for that year; and after as
Certauning the amount Of town, county and
Territorial taxes. PAYABLE thereon. in the
proper columns Of the tax roll Of said town
with the name OF the owner if known, and
the description Of the land; and such taxes
so entered, shall be collected in the same
manner that other taxes are collected; and
the lands so assessed, in case the taxes arc
not paid thereon, shall be returned and sold
in like manner as delinquent lands contain
ed in the original transcript roll: Prorided
however. that no land so added to the
transcript roll, shall be assessed higher than
any other lands ia the same town Of equal
value. and that all lands and other proper
tv may, within twenty days after they
shall be so added, be liable TO be reduced in
valuation, by the town supervisors. in the
manner provided by law for ascertainine
the value Of real and personal property IL
able 10 TAXATION.
Sec. Is. Whenever any assessor shall
discover during the time he is making his
assessment. that there are tracts of land.
town lots, or chattels subject TO taxation IN
said town, and were omitted by the asses
sors in one or more preceding years, he
shall enter the same upon his roll, noting
distinctly the years in which such omission
was made, in the same manner as the as
sessment for the current year: but no such
assessment shall be made for longer pc
Rod than one wear back. and such assess
ment shall have the like force and effect as
assessments made at the proper time, and
the tax due thereon shall be charged and
collected with the revenue Of the year in
which such assessment is made and levied
and town lots shall be subject to the taxes
omitted, TO be assessed as aforesaid, In
whose hands they may come.
SEC. II. The several county treasurers
shall, as soon as may be, after the close Of
any sale of lands for taxes, return TO the
clerk Of the board of county supervisors in
their respective counties, all papers and
notices in relation to such tax sale; also a
particular description of all tracts of land
and town lots. designating the quantity o.
each sold by them, the names Of the per-
sons to whom sold, the amount for which
each tract. part of tract or lot was sold,
together with the names of the respective
owners, If known; and the said clerk shall
record all such returns so made to him in
a took of record TO be preserved in his Of
fee, and at all sales Of lands and town lots
hereafter had for the collection of any tax,
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