Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-05-18

D"h o'iH UCU w iilG COUNTY uOdTi
oil supervisors, as required by law, the sait
board shall for such year cause tax list o
assessment roll to be made out from III,
last assessment roll of such town or ward
making such additions thereto and aIlera
lions therein, as they may deem Just ant
equitable to make the assessments on al
taxable property in such town or WARD
equal. which tax list or roll so made on
shall be acted upon and enforced, and al
taxes specified therein shall be collected il
like manner as if such roll had been made
out and returned as herein before provided
! Sec. &c. The assessors, in the execution
| OF their duties, shall use the form and pur.
sue the instructions which may from time
TO time be transmitted 10 them by the See,
rotary of State.
Equalization Of The assessments, and
manner Of assessing tares.
Sec. 81. The board of supervisors OF
each county shall, at their annual meeting
IN each year, examine the assessment rolls
OF the several towns and wards in their
county, and ascertain whether the valuation
OF real estate in each town or ward bears
Just relation or proportion 30 the valuation
In all the towns and wards Of the county
Sec. SO. On such examination, they
may increase or diminish the aggregate
valuation of real estate, in any town or
ward, so much per cenium as may in their
opinion be necessary TO produce just re-
latIon between all the valuations of real es-
tate in the county, and the amount so added
or deducted in each case shall be entered
upon their records; but in no instance shall
they reduce the aggregate valuation of all
the towns and wards, below the aggregate
valuations thereof as made by the assess
sors.
Sec. 80. They shah also make such al.
teratlons in the description of any such lands
upon such rolls, as may be necessary to
render such description conformable to the
requirements of this chapter; and if such
description cannot be so altered, they shall
expunge the description of such lands and
the assessments thereon from the assess
ment roll.
Sec. 40. After the assessment rolls shall
have been thus eqlalized and corrected,
the board OF supervisors shall cause the
corrected assessment roll Of each town or
ward, or copy of the same, 10 be deiy>
cred TO the supervisor thereof, who shall
deliver the same to the clerk OF the proper
town or city TO be filed and kept by him in
his office.
Sec. Al. The board Of supervisors in
each county shall also cause TO be entered
on their records the aggregate valuations of
the taxable real and personal properly in
the several towns and wards of their coun-
ty, as corrected by Them; from which rec>
ord, tie clerk Of the board shall within ten
days after their annua! meeting, make, and
transmit TO the Secretary of State, by mail
or otherwise, certified statement showing
the aggregate valuation of the taxable real
and personal estate in the county, an d the
aggregate valuation Of such property in
each town and ward therein, as corrected
by the board.
Sec. AZ. Whenever a general State tax
shall be required 10 be raised, and the
amount of sUch tax upon each dollar of the
valuations shall not have been previously
determined by law, The Secretary of Stale
shall apporllon such tax among the several
counties, Ill proportion 10 The valuation of
the taxable property therein, as ascerlaincd
from he last returns made 10 lin bv the
clerks of the several boards of supervisors.
and shall, before the next annual session of
such boards, make out and transmit TO each
clerk thereof, the amount of such tax so
apporlioned to his county, and shall. in
such case, and in all other cases where
state taxes are levied, charge to each coun-
ty the amount appGriioued to the same;
and each such county shall be liable for the
payment inlo the State Treasury, by the
second Monday of February next succeeds
ing the levying Of such tax, Of the amount
so charged 10 The same.
Sec. 45. The board of county supcrv-
sors, at their annual meeting in each year,
shall estimate and determine The amount Of
moneys 10 be raised in each town and
ward, in their county, for the support of
common schools therein for such wear,
which tax shall be levied and collected IN
each year, and s.aIl not be less than one
half the amount of SC hool moneys appor.
toned to such town and ward by the state
superintendent in his last apportonment of
school moneys, nor shall the amount so
raised for school purposes exceed three
mills on the dollar, IN any one year, upon
the valuations of taxable property in such
county; every such determination for the
raising of school moneys by the said board
shall be recorded by their clerk, and the
sum so determined 10 be raised, shall be
assessed and collected for the use of COM
mon schools in each town and ward in such
county, in addition 10 any sum any such
town or ward may have voted to raise for
the support OF common schools therein.
"a. Whenever there shall have been no
distribution of school moneys o any town
or ward i'll any year,thc county board ofsU-
peryisors shall, at their annual meeting in
that year, direct 10 be raised, on The valua-
ton of tie taxable property in such town
or ward, The same per centage or proper
tionable amount Of taxes for the support of
common schools therein, as shall be re-
quired 10 be raised for that purpose i'll the
other towns in such county.
Sec. IS. For the purpose Of raising
revenue TO assist in the support Of common
schools, until there shall he distribution
from the income of the school fund, the
board of supervisors III each county, shall,
in each year, rntil such distribution is
made, raise \ tax of Two and a half mills