The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-05-03
sI,5O PER ANNUN In ADVANCE.

to such meeting, and in not less thai
five public places in such town or incor
porated village, and in not less than two
public places in each ward Of such city
Every member of such town, incorpora
ted village or city board shall take al
oath fairly and impartially to equalizt
the valuation of real property for such
town, incorporated village, or city, ac
cording to the best ofhis Judgment and
ability. Each assessor shall lay before
the board his assessment for such town
incorporated village or city; and after
careful examination, the said board
shall proceed to correct any errors which
may be apparent in such assessment
and if it be claimed that different par,
cells Of real property have not been as
sessed at their true value, they shall add
to or deduct from any such parcels such
amount as, in their opinion, Justice and
equity demand and the valuation, as
thus equalized by the said board, shall
constitute the return to be made by the
assessor or assessors, as the true valua-
ton OF the real property of such town,
Incorporated village, or city and such
equalzed assessment shall be the valu-
alton Of real property on which taxes
shall be levied and computed; except
as the valuation Of any parcel may here
after be changed in accordance with the
provisions of sections forty three and
forty-eight. The said board may ad-
journ from day to day, until their labors
shall have been completed; and each
member thereof shall receive for his SER
vices the same per diem as is authorized
by law to be paid to assessors to be
paid out Of the town, Incorporated vii
lage or city treasury.
And it is hereby provided, that the
said town and city boards of equaliza-
ton shall annually equaIize the assess
ment of new entries, new structures
and personal property; and such equal
lied value shall be deemed the true val
ue thereof, and shall be so returned by
the assessor.
SEC. %. Each assessor shall, on or
before the first Monday of July, for that
year In which all the real property of
the State is required to be valued, make
out and deliver to the clerk of the board
of supervisors of his county, return, in
tabular form, in a book to be provided
him by said clerk, of the quantity, des-
cription, and value of each parcel of real
property subject to taxation, in his
town, city or ward, i'll numerical order
as to the ots and blocks, or sections
and sHbsections thereof, with the name
OF tl.e owner if known, set opposite to
each OF such parcels; and in a separate
column, the value by him attached to
each parcel. Such return shall set forth
the name of each of such villages and
cities, and if any parcel of real property
lying within the limits of any village or
city, be other than a lot or part thereof,
the return shall set forth the number Of
acres, the number and range of the
town, and the number and subdivision
Of the section, or such other description
as will be sufficiently pertinent. As
SCISSORS may commence the labor of as
sessment at any time after the third
Monday in April.
SEC. "a. Each assessor, when making
his return of the valuation of real estate,
for those years when all the real estate
is required to be valued, shall take and
subscribe an oath, which shall be certi-
fed by the officer administering the
same, and attached to his return to the
clerk Of the board of supervisors, in the
following form, to wit:
county of-do solemnly swear, that
the return to which this is attached, con.
tains correct description Of each par.
Gel of real property within said, as
far as ] have been able to ascertain the
same; and that the value attached tc
each parcel in said return, is, as Iverily
believe, the true value thereof"
The assessor may append to said oatI
if he deem it his duty to do SO, 'fexcept
as the same shall have been altered by
the (town, incorporate village, or city
board of equalization.
Sections %, 2e, 81, %, 20 and 80
relate to the duties Of County ant
State Boards of equalization.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF ASSESSORS II
RELATION TO PERSONAL PROPERTY
NEW ENIRIES AMI NEW
Sec. 81. Each assessor shall, on OF
before the twentieth day of May, annu
ally, leave with each person residing in
his town, city or ward, of full age and
not a married woman or insane person,
written or printed notice, requiring
him to make out and hold in readiness
for such assessor, after ten days from
the time of leaving such notice, state
ment of the personal property whini4 by
this act he is required to list for taxa
ton, an d such notice shall be accompa-
MED by such form in blank, as is necess-
airy for the statement required PrOvi-
ded, however, that such statement may
be made out and delivered at the time
when the notice is left by the assessor,
if the person receiving such notice shall
choose to do so.
SEC. 80. Each assessor shall, before
the the tenth day of June, call upon
each person with whom he shall have
left notice, for the statement which
such person was required to make out,
unless such statement shall have been
previously delivered to said assessor !;
and the assessor shall require each of
such persons to take and subscribe an
oath to the truth Of such statement, in
the manner following, to-wit:
STATE OF WISCONSIN !
----CoUNTY.
/ do solemnly swear that in the above
statement | have truly set forth all per-
sonal property which by law was 1e-
quired to list, either on my own account
or in behalf of others, according to the
best Of my knowledge and belief that
where by law, have been required to