The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-20
Clerks Office, March, Is, 1861.
AN ORDINANCE

| To provide for the election Of three Assessors
and prescribing their duties, passed Marcel
16th, 1851.
SECTION l. Be it ordained by the Common Council
of the City of Evansville that at each annual cleo
ton of CoupciImen hereafter to be held there shall
be elected by the qualified electors of said city,
three Assessors, each of whom shall give bond and
be required by the Seth section of the City
Charter.
SEC 2. It shall be the duty of one more of said
Assessors, as the Common Council shall order and
direct, Immediately after each such election, to
proceed 10 make out full and fair list OF AL per-
sons, and all personal estate and all dogs and
bitches, and all polls liable to be taxed placing the
of persons in alphabetical order, aud setting
opposite the name of each person the value of his
her personal estate subject to taxation, and for
that purpose the Common Council may divide said
City into districts and require either any of said
Assessors to perform said duties in and forsuch dis
tricts it may Designate and assign to said Asses
scr or Assessors and in making and returning sa!
list lists, said Assessor Assessors shall in all
things be governed by the provisions of the Charter
and the Ordinances made to be made in pursu-
thereof, and shall also make, sign and append
thereto a certificate that it is the assessment roll
for the proper year, and for the particular district
assigned to said Assessor or Assessors, which year
shall be designated and district described in said
certificate.
sEc. 3. 1t shall be the duty of one or more of said
Assessors, as said Common Council may direct i'm
mediaely after such election to proceed to make
full and fair list of all real estate be taxed with
the Bames of the owners or claimants arranged in
alphabetical order, and they shall, in making said
a description of each lot parcel of r0al estate
owned or claimed by heirs and the value thereof,
and a-O the value of the improvements thereon,
which last mentioned list shall be made and return
ed according to the requirements of the Charter and
Ordinances made or to be made in pursuance there
of, and said last mentioned list shall be designated
the sment roll of real estate for the proper
year and the said Assessor Assessors before re-
turning said roll shall make, sign, and append
thereto certificate that it is such assessment roll
of real estate for the proper year.
SEC. 4. Each assessment roll beside the column in
which the valne of real personal property is plac-
ed, shall contain a column in which the said Asses
scr or Assessors shall enter the residence of the
tax payer, and another column or columns in which
the Board of Equalization shall place their valua
ton of the property in the event of their add
ing taking from the valuation fixed by such
Assessor Assessors.
SIC 5. The Assessment Rolls shall be returned
to the Clerk Of the Common Council by the ff-
teenrh day Of June of each year, unless further
time shall be given by the Common Council; and
the Clerk shall make, sign, and append to each s.
sessment roll statement of the time Of the return
ing and filing thereof.
SEC. s. An Ordinance entitled can Ordinance to
provide for the election of Assessor and two
Assistant Assessors, and prescribing their duties,
passed sePtember II, 1859, is hereby repealed.
Attest WH. BAKER, Mayor.
p BURKE Clerk