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

AN ACT to provide for evying State tax.
The People of the Stale of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. There shall be levied and collected,
for the year lS49, in each county of this State a
tax of four mills the dollar valuation to be
levied and collected aud paid into the State Treas
ury in gold and silver.
See. 2 The supervisors Of their respective coun-
tres hereby required to levy the foregoing tax
upon the taxable property in their several counties
according to the provisions OF act entitled An
act for the assessment and collection OF taxes" ap-
proved March %, lo19.
Sec. 3. Whenever any county treasurer shall
fail TO pay into the state treasury, any moneys in
his hands for that purpose, at the time prescribed by
law he shall in addition to other penalties, be la
bic to the following viz; If he shah fail, for the
space Of ten days, he shall forfeit to the STATE
twerty per cent on the amount withheld, and if
he shall fail to pay snch moneys for the space
of thirty days after such specified time, he shall
forfeit his Office Of treasurer and be declared pub
lie defaulter.
Sec. 4. The Secretary of State is hereby required
Immediately upon the passage OF this act, to cause
ono thousand copies of the same, together with the
" Act for the assessment and collection of taxes"
approved March %, 1919, to be published by the
printer, in pamphlet form, and transmit to each
clerk of the board of supervisors of the several
counties in this state, sufficient number Of CO res
thereof, to supply each and every assessor within
such county with one or more copies; and the said
clerks upon the receipt thereof, shall forthwith
cause the to be distributed to the several as
SCISSORS in each town within such county, giving one
copy to each and every assessor
Sec. }. This act, and the act entitled " An act
for the assessment and collection Of taxes ap,
proved March %, 1919 shall take effect and 90
into operation the first day of May, ~ d. 1919,
at which time, much OF an act approved August
81, 1913, entitled an An act to amend an act en-
titled an act to prescribe township and county
government, approved February le, lS47, as
provides for assessing, levyng, collecting and pay
ing taxes the times and in the manner there
in specified and also all acts and parts Of acts con-
travcnng conflicting with the proyi ions OF the
aforesaid act entitled AN act for the assessment
and collection Of taxes approved March -, l6l9,
shall be repealed and Of no effect.
See. g. That in the counties Of Chippewa, ST.
Crox aud La Polntc, the terms Of time mentioned
IN tht third section of this act, extended, the
trst to thirty days, and the second 10 sixty days.
HARRISON c. HOBART,
Speaker of the Assembly.
JOHN f. HOLMES,
1t. Governor and President Of the Senate
Approved March 81, $40.
AN ACT for the asses nent and collection Of faxes
lac People OF the State OF Wisconsin, r,prescn-
ted IA Senate and Assembly, 10 enact as follows:
~ TIE ASSESSMENT AxD COLLECTION OF TAXES.
The property 10 be ta,reA.
Section l. Al p'ope.ty' real and personal, with
~ t"' STATE not expressly exempted thcretrom.
t'Iu be sUhJccl 10 taxation IN Ihe manner provided
10y law.
sec, ;. Real property shall, for the purposes of
tAI"on be cona'f"c" tome "d' tAe Iand itself AMI
al Dh'a'hEs' NATURES ana oiher improvements
'H'r''N' ana at m''es' minerals PIar'S' ana los,
Sis, III ana uhHeI the same; ana me terms IaHd
and real estate, whcn used III TINS chapter shall
BE- construed as having the same meaning as the
ta'n real property.
SEED The terms personal property ana per-
s'ln estate, as used IN tins chapter shall have the
san meIh'nF' ana SNAIL tor the purposes OF taxa
I'I' D. construed TO h'iHGe All goods AID thatteiS
moneys ana effects an potl5 ana vessels whether
al none or abroad ana a" c''th invested Tn rth'
an IDS u"e or 10 pe1o'"c "ue' "o'h N d'Dt-
o. whether Oh az '"''' ''"'''s'' "''g' "l''tE'E'
or otherwise, al Pibc S'"ChS' ana S-othS or SllIeS
ia all incorporated companies, and such potion Of
tie capital ol Incorporated compan IS, liable 10 tax
at Oh on their cap tai. rs shall not be nlc ted in
real estate.
Sec. /. The following property shall BE- exempt
from taxation;
fF~I Al property, rra' ana PERSONAL OF the
United States ANA OF inns STATE
second. All pubic or corporate property OF the
several counties. cities villages towns and school
districts IN tins state, used or intended for corporate
Purposes, except lands bid off tor counties On tax
ear,.
Third. All personal property exempt by law from
execution not exceeding IN value two hundred
dollars.
Fourth. The personal property OF all literary.
h.ucyol.nt, charitable aud scientific institutions m
corpo.atcd within this state, and such real estate
belonging to such institutions as shall be actually
2oe1r.ed by them for the purpose" Tor ""'" '"'y
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- ,,,,. h;IJ,,,r h.;,r Lonsc of npl,l;c ,vorsb,,
wine, Shall h., krnt mr. usrd as store or s1op. or
for any Other purpose except for public wo.shp or
for schools shall be taxed upon the ca IN valuation
thereof the same as personal property. the owner
or occupant, or to both and the taxes thereon shall
be collected IN the same manner taNcs on per-
sonal estate.
Sixth. All public libraries, and the real and per-
soma property belonging TO, or connected with the
same.
Seventh. The property OF all Indians who arc
not ctuzens' sT'ep' lands h''d by mem oy PHTchhse
h'oH'h' Tue PN''oh" P''PE'H Vi Pe''""S "Io'
by reason OF mhrmty' age ana poverty may III the
opinion oil the assessors De "n"O0 10 'o"''op'' To-
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