The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-04-28
LAWS OF OHIO.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
mo. 1881 AN ACT

To provide for The election of Township
Assessors, end 10 prescribe their duties.
SECTION l.. Be il enacted BY The General
Assembly Of The State Of Ohio, That 10 each
township, town or ward In this State form.
ing an election district, there shall be elect.
ed, on the first Mondsy of April annually,
by the quslied electors Of such township,
town or ward forming an election district,
one assessor for such township, town or
ward, or part Of township not inc luGed In
uny other election district.
Sec. 2. Each township assessor shall
give bond ind take the prescribed oath Of
Office on or before the first Monday after his
election, aud the township clerk shall notify
the county auditor thereof; and if the cOuR.
~ auditor shall receive no notice Of the
qualification OF the assessor In any township,
ward or city in his county, on or before the
third Monday in A prl in each yesr, he shall
consider such Office vacant; or If there
should be a failure to elect by the people,
or shall be al any time or from any cause, a
vacancy in the office OF assessor, or if the
assessor Of any township or ward, having
qualified, shall not have proceeded to the
discharge OF the duties of his Office before
the third Monday Of April In each year, the
county auditor shall forthwith appoint one
or more suitable persons, residents Of the
county, to discharge the duties Of assessor
in such township or ward, who shall there.
upon take the necessary oath of Office, give
the same bond perform the same duties, be
entitled TO the same tees and subject to the
same liabilities as in case OF assessors elect.
ed by the people.
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entering upon the duties of his Cffice, shall
give bond, with two or more freehold sure
ties, 10 the acceptance OF the township trus.
tees or proper authorities Of any city or in.
corporated village, payable to the State ot
Ohio, and conditioned for the faithful and
and impartial discharge of the duties of his
Office according TO law; aud shall take and
subscribe On oath Of office, which shall be
endorsed on such bond, and the bond 80 in.
dorsed shall be Deposited with the township
treasurer, or town or city treasurer as the
case may be. In case Of an appointment
by the auditor, the bond msy be approved by
the auditor or the township trustees or au-
thorities OF any city, town or yiiluge.
Sec. 4. E}Ch assessor as aforesaid shall,
during SUCH year as is now required by law,
take an enumeration Of all the white male
iEha5itants above the ags of twenty.one
years, whose usual place of residence shalt
be in any family in his township, and who
ere residents OF his township, town or ward
on the day preceding the second Monday Of
April, aud shall make out q list of the
names OF said inhshtants, and return the
same to the clerk Of the court of common
pleas on or before the third Monday of Nav
of tho year wherein such enumeration Is
taken.
Sec 5, I; shall be the duty OF each town.
ship assessor, 4: the time of taking lists OF
properly Lor taxation in each year, to require
each person in their several townships to
mike e statement specifying the number O
scres they may have had in wheat, rye, bar.
ley, corn, buckwheat, oats and meadow, end
the quantity Of each prcdIced in each pre-
ceGiDg year; end said assessors are hereby
required TO make q return OF tie aforesaid
statement TO the county auditor of their res
pectiye counties ct the time Of returning the
lists of properly fer taxation.
Sec. g. E4ch assessor as aforesaid aha II
make list and valuation of oil tox4b.e
property in bis township, ward or district,
row OF hereafter taxable by any law of this
State, and discharge rlI such other duties as
thall IRON tine to time be imposed upon him !
by law.
Sec. 7. Assessors in cities OF the first
class shall be paid ont Of the county treas
ury, two dollars and fifty cents per day, ard
Eil ether assessors two dollars per day, for .
lhe time during which they shall be neces.
sarily engaged in the perormance of their
Cuties each assessor shall make cut an &C.
count in detCil, giving the Gate Of each day
in which he shall have been thus engaged,
Hnd shall verify the same by his oath, which
the county auditor is hereby authorized to
administer end il the auditor shall be salts
fed that such account is correct he shall
draw his Werroht on The couH!y treasurer for
the amount thcreot; but 10 no case shall
such order be drawn until the Gssessurs shall
have filed with the auditor lis list of assess
ments, accurately made out, and added up
the statements returned to him, and the
books on which the original assessments
were entered.
Sec. 8. The Get entitled 'Bn act to create
the ofiice TOW nship sssessor,' lssed March
20, 184l, aid which took el!ec: April lst and
August lst, 1871, and section one of an act
regulating the mode Of taking the epumera-
ton of TIE white male Inhabitants above the
age OF twenly-cne years, passed January | 0,
J 1927, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Provided, that The repeal Of the Aforesaid
sets shall in NJ wise affect any liabilities or
lights accruiog under them
Sec. 0. This act shall take effect from
and after its pass ge.
WILLIAM B. WOODS,
Speaker Of the House ct Representatives.
MARTIN WELkER,
President 0! the Senate.
April 4, 1859.