Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-03-10
AN ACT.
concerning sohool niatricts.

PiSfA'A~H~ Va emp. y VI Tue IcflSSd
statutes, or of the act approved March
29th, 1853, entitled san act to amend
chapter nineteen of the revised statutes
of this state" are hereby declared legal
for all purposes; and at any time within
three months after this act shall take et-
feet any warrant heretofore issued for
the collection of any such tax to the dis
triet treasurer may be renewed for thir-
ty days, and may thereafter be again
renewed, with the consent of the proper
town superintendent; or the district clerk
may issue new warrant and tax list
for the collection thereof, in cases where
a warrant may have already been issued
therefor, either to the district treasurer
or town treasurer, on which the taxes
have not been fully collected, and in ca
ses where no warrant has been issued /;
and at any time within three months
after this act shall take effect, it shall be
lawful for any school district, at any
special meeting legally called, to vote a
tax for any purpose authorized by law;
and the same proceedings shall be had
upon ell such warrants and to collect all
such taxes mentioned in this section as
are provided in said chapter nineteen,
which for that purpose IS hereby revived
and declared to be in full force as the
same was at the date aforesaid, any law
to the contrary notwithstanding. The
tax list in every such case shall he bassd
upon, and - FAR as practicable c1fres-
porj with, the assessment roll or rolls
Of the town or towns in which the dis
tyict lies, and which wore eluallzed last
and next prior to the time when the
original warrant for the collection of
such tax was issued, or shall be issued.
Sec. 2. In all cases where warrant
for the collection Of any such tax rs Is
mentioned in the preceding section has
been issueI, and any person or persons
shall have pail or shall have had collec-
tel from his, her or their property the
whole or any portion Of the tax therein
appearing As assessed against him, her
or them, or upon any property belong
ing to sach person rpersons, the amount
81 paid or collected shall be credited to
him, her or them, by the treasurer Of
the school district upon being requested
by such person or persons, and upon the
production Of proper evidence Of such
payment. The affidavit or receipt of q
former treasurer or personal knowledge
of the acting treasurer of such payment,
shall be good evidence under the pro
visions Of This section. \ credit made
upon request as herein before provided,
shall operate as and is hereby declared
10 be perpetual bar 20 any aud all &C
tons heretofore or which may hereafter
be commenced by the person or persons
thus credited and the same may be
pleaded puis dariea continuance or
otherwise, as the case may require; and
the same may be pleaded singly, or with
any other proper plea to such action or
actions.
Sec, 8. Hereafter, the clerk of each
school district, shall on or before the
last Monday Of November in each year,
deliver 10 the town clerk Of the town in
which the district is situated, a certiti-
cate, verified hy his affidavit, showing
the amount of the tax voted at the last
preceding annual meeting AMI list Of
oil persons and corporations liable to a
school district tax therein; or in case of
a joint district, be shall deliver to the
town clerk of each town in which any
part of the district is situated a certiti-
cate 50 verified, showing the proportion
OF the tax 10 be assessed in that part of
the district which proportion shall be
ascertlined from the valuations contain
OF in the last assessment rolls Of the re-
spectiye towns; and to enable the dis
trlct clerk to ascertain the same, the
town clerk of each such towns, shall on
demand, at any time after he has re-
ceived the equalized assessment roll Of
his town deliver to the district clerk Of
any such Joint district, certified state
meut Of the valuation of real and per
Bonal property III that part of such dis
tri,t lying within his town, rs the same
appears from said assessment roll.
See. 4. The town clerk shall assess
such tax, or the due proportion thereof,
upon the real and personal property liza
DIE thereto, placing the same in asspar-
ate co!umn in the next assessment roll
OF his town, delivered to the town treas
urer tor collection whenever such certif-
;cate Of the district clerk shall be receiy-
ed By him in time therefor although
after the last Monday of Noyember
Aud II for any reason such tax shall not
he assessed in the next assessment rol!
after The tax is voted, it shall be assessed
in that Of the next succeeding year. The
TAX shall, in all respects be collected OF
returned delinquent like other taxes, and
when collected, the money shall be paid
oyer to the town superintendent aud by
A!m to the district treasurer, Ike other
school monies.
See. ). AAer threa months from the
passage Of this at, the town clerk shall
not be required to make oat transcripts
Of theassesment roll for school districts;
22i sections two, three and four Of the
AT ea;tiei " An Act 70 amend chap;e
nineteen Of the Revised StstuteS OF this
State" approved March %, 1888, are
hereby repealed.
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