Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-05-20
LAWS OF OHIO.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
mo. 66l AN ACT, 7s
To amend the 10th, 18th, 18th, and 23d,

mo. 661 AN ACT, a-s
To amend the 10th, 18th, 18th, and 23d,
sections of an act entitled "An act for
the assessment and taxation of all prop
erty in this State, and for levying tax
es thereon according to its true value
in money, passed and took effect April
18th, "A. d. 1852.
Sec. l. Be 1t enacted 6y the General
assembly Of the State of Ohio, That the
sixteenth section of an act entitled can
act for the assessment and taxation of all
property in this State, and for levying
taxes thereon according to its true value
in money!" passed April 18th, 1852, be
and it is here by amended SO as to read as
follows: Sec. 16. That when any per-
son shall commence any business in any
county after the day preceding the second
Monday of April in any year, the average
value of whose personal property employed
in such business shall not have been pre-
viously entered on the assessors list for
taxation in said county, such person shall
report to the auditor of the county the
probable average value of the personal
property by him intended to be employed
in such business until the day preceding
the second Monday of April thereafter;
and shall pay into the treasury Of such
county a sum which shall bear such pro-
portion to the levy for all purposes, on
the average, so employed, as the time
from the day on which he shall commence
such business, as aforesaid to the day pre-
ceding the second Monday of April next
succeeding, shall bear to one year. Pro-
vided, that if the person SO listing his cap
ital shall present bonafide receipt from
the treasurer of any county in this state,
in which such capital had been previously
listed and taxed for the amount ofthe tax
es assessed, and by him paid on the same
capital for the same year, then and in that
case it shall be receipt from paying tax
es again on such capital.
Sec. 2. That original section number
seventeen of the act aforesaid, be amended
SO as to read as follows: Sec. II. That
when any person shall commence or en-
gage in the business of dealing in stocks
of any description, or buying or shaving
any kind of bills ofexchange, check, drafts
bank notes, promisory notes, or other kind
of writing obligatory, as mentioned in
the fifteenth section of this act, after the
day preceding the second Monday in April,
in any year, the average value of whose
personal property intended to be employed
in such business shall not have been previ-
ously entered on the assessors list for tax
alton, in said county, such person shall
report to the auditor of the county the
probable average value of the personal
property by him intended to be employed
in such business until the day preceding
the second Monday in April thereafter,
and shall pay into the treasury of such
county, sum which shall bear the same
proportion to the levy for all purposes,
on the average value SO employed, as the
time from the day on which he shall COM
mence or engage in such business, as afore-
said, to the day preceding the second Mon
day in April next succeeding shall bear
to one year.
Sec. 3. That the original section eigh-
teen of the act aforesaid, be SO amended
as to read as follows: Sec. 18. That If
any person shall commence or engage in
any business as aforesaid, and shall not
within one month, thereafter, report to
the county auditor, and make payment to
the county treasury, as before required, he
re shall forfeit and pay double the amount
required to be paid by the two preceding
sections, to be ascertained, as near as may
be, by the testimony of witnesses, and
recovered before any justice of the peace,
or in the court of common pleas, by civil
action, in the name of the county treasur-
er, for the use of the county, and prosess
issued out of the court Of common pleas,
in such action, shall be directed to the
proper officer, and may be served in any
county in this State.
Sec. 4. That original section thirty
two of the act aforesaid be SO amended as
to read as follows: Sec. 32. Assessors
in cities of the first class shall be paid out
of the county treasury, two dollars and
fifty cents per day; and all other assessors
two dollars per day, for the time which
they shall be necessarily engaged in the
performance of their duties; each assessor
shall make out an account in detail, Civ
ing the date of each day in which he shall
have been thus engaged, and shall verify
the same by his oath; which the county
auditor is hereby authorized to administer,
and if the auditor shall be satisfied that
such account is correct, he shall draw an
order on the county treasury for the amout
thereof; but in no case shall such order be
drawn until the assessor shall have filed
with the auditor his list of assessments,
accurately made out, and added up the
statements returned to him, and the books
| on which the original assessments were en-
tered. - 'f.
Sec. 5. That original sections sixteen,
seventeen, eighteen, and thirty-two, OF
the act aforesaid, be and they are hereby
repeald.
Sec. 6. This act shall take effect on its
passage.
WILLIAM B. WOODS,
Speaker of House of Representatives.
MARTIN WELKER,
President of the Senate.
April -. 1858.
mo. l16.1 AN ACT
To amend an act entitled "An act to
regulate the fees of officers in civil and
criminal cases." passed March 9Th,
1881. .4
Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General
! Assen,blv ofM State of Ohio, That Sec