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

among the several towns and wards there
IN, IN proportion to the valuation of taxab
property therein Tor the year, as equal. ZEE
by the board; and every such determine
ton and apporlionment shall be entered a
large in their records.
Sec. AZ. The clerk of the board of su.
Pervlsors, shall, Immediately after such APP
portonments, make out two certificates o
The several amounts apportoned TO be as
sessed upon the taxable property of eact
town and ward, for state, county, ant
school purposes, one of which he shall de-
liver, or cause to be delivered to the coun.
iy treasurer, and the other TO the clerk oil
the proper town or city, as the case may
be, and the county treasurer shall charge
! the amount of state and county taxes, spec
med IN each certificate, 10 the proper town
or city.
| See. 10. The town clerk Of every town
shall, on or before the first day of Decem>
Der, in each year, deliver to the town
treasurer of his town, certified states
ment, showing separately the amount OF
state, county and school tax, apporlioned 10
such town, and also the amount of town
and other local taxes TO be collected therein,
specifying the amount of each particular
klad of town or other local tax; and such
town treasurer, shall within SIX days after
receiving such certified statement, execute
| TO the county treasurer, and his successors
IN office, bond, in double the amount of
state and county taxes so apporioned to
his town, with good and sufficient sureties,
TO be approved by the chairman of the
board of superN isOrs of his town, or the
county treasurer, conditioned that he will
duly and faithfully perform the duties of
his office, and that he will faithfully and
truly account for, and pay over, according
TO law, all such stale and county taxes
which shall come into his hands, and shall
deliver such bond TO the county treasurer,
to be filed and kept in his office.
Sec. 40. The county treasurer shall file
and safely keep such bond in his office, and
on the receipt thereof, he shall give to the
town treasurer receipt, stating that he
has received the bond required by the pre-
cedlng section, which receipt, the said
town treasurer shall forthwith deliver TO the
clerk Of his town.
Sec. so. 1t shall be the duty of every
town clerk, Immediately upon the reception
OF the corrected assessment roll and a GER
tiicae Of the amount Of state, county, and
school tax, appOrtlored TO his town, as
aforesaid, TO calculate and carry ont the to-
total omount Of such taxes, together with
all town and other local tsXes, unless other
wise provided, adding thereto five per cent.
Tor expenses of collection, in an additional
PNlfnn nrnnDrnI fI,at Il,
assessment roll, setting opposite to the sew
eral sums set down as the valuation Of real
and personal estate, the respective sums as
sessed as taxes thereon, in dollars and cents,
rejecting the fractions Of a cent.
Sec. 81. The said town clerk shall inn
medlat'y make out fair copy of such as
sessment roll, when thus completed, and
deliver the same TO the town treasurer of
his town on or before the second Monday
of December in each year, but in no case
shall the assessment roll be delivered to
such treasurer, until he shall have executed
the bond and delivered the receipt required
in the lorty-eighth and forty-ninlh sections
of tbs chapter.
Sec. So. To each assessment roll so de-
lvertd, warrant under the hand of the
town clerk. shall be annexed, substantially
in the following form, TO wit: The State
at W lSconsIn 10 town treasurer of
the town Of in the county OF
You are hereby commanded
to collect from each oflhe persons and cor
poratiuns named in the annexed assessment
roll, and Of the owners CT the real estate
described therein, the taxes set down in
such rolOpposite to their respective names,
and to the several parcels of land therein
described; and in case any person or cor.
poration, upon whom any such sum or tax
is imposed, shall refuse or neg ect to pay
the same, you are to levy and collect the
same by distress and sale Of the goods and
chattels of the person or corporation so
taxed, and out of the moneys so to be col
lecled, after deductlng your fees, you are
last to pay 10 the treasurer of said county,
on or before the first Monday Of January
next, the sum of for state taxes,
you are 10 retain and pay out as town treas
urer, according to law, the sum of
and the balance of said moneys you are re-
quired 10 pay to said treasurer for county
purposes, on or before the day above spe-
Gifted; by which day you are further requi
red 10 make return TO said treasurer of this
warrant with said roll annexed, together
wlthyOur doings thereon as provided by law.
Given under my hand this day of
in the year Is
Clerk of said town."
Sec. SO. As soon as the town clerk
shall have delivered the assessment roll
and warrant TO the town treasurer as alore-
said, he shall make a memorandum or en>
try thereof, and charge to such treasurer
the amount of the town and other local
taxes, if any, in book to be kept by him
for that purpose.
See. 81. The warrant for the collection
of stale and county taxes in any city, shall
unless otherwise provided, be made out and
signed by the clerk of such city. and an
neXed by him TO the assessment rolls of
the several wards therein, and the same
shall be delivered TO the treasurer thereof
for collection, who shall proceed in the
collection OF the taxes therein specified in
like manner as he is required by the char
Ter of such city to collect cily taxes, and he
shall make return thereof under oath, with
the assessment rolls Of the several wards
anne Xed, to the county treasurer, in the
like time and in the same manner nearly