Litchfield enquirer., 1861-08-01
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 Fair Haven or Westville if resident within those v.tinr districts respectively, at least ten days before said first day of November, or if said per son is . nonresident, by leaving the same with him personally or with his agent, or by deposit Ing the same, addressed to said person at his last known post office address, in the post office ef the city of New Haven, at least ten days be- fore said first day of November and said col- Iector shall also immediately after said first day of October, give public notice in two or more daily newspapers of said city by advertisement rubished therein, respectively, at least the days notifyine all persons who shall have omitted to nsv their taxes, to pay the same to him at his aa;es on or before the first day of November; Ind upon filing in the town clerks office of the town of New Haven, an affidavit of the giving of the notice as hereinbefore provided, or that the residence or post office address of the person named therein could not by diligent search and inquiry be ascertained, and also of the publica- tion of the notice as hereinbefore required, it shall be the duty of said collector to charge, col lsct and receive upon all taxes remaining unpaid on and after said first day of November, in ad- dition to the percentage then due by the provis- ions of the third section of this act an interest at the rate of twelve per centum per annum, to be calculated from the day on which said tax became payable; and it shall be lawful for said collector to make distress for such interest and accrued percentages as a part of such unpaid tax, in the manner now provided by the "Act for the Assessment and Collection of Taxes" in cass of unpaid state and town taxes.
 SEC. s. The collector of any such tax shall enter into suitable books, to be kept by him for the purpose, the sums received by him for taxes, and the names of the persons from whom such sums were received, and the day when received; and on the first days of October, January, April and July, of every year, and at any other time when he shall be required so to do by the officers hereinafter mentioned, he shall render state- ment in writing, under oath, of the sums so re- ccived during the proceeding quarter, and the persons from whom the same were received and the time when received, to the selectmen of the town, in case of a town tax, and to the mayor of the city, in case of city tax, and to the clerk of the district, in case of New Haven city school district tax and on each and every Mon day during the months of July, August, Sep tember, October and November, and on the first Monday of the months of January, February, March, April, May and June, of each year, he shall pay over to the treasurer of the town or of the city, or of the said school district, as the ease may be, the amount received by him during the preceding week or month, (according as Q such payment is made during said first mention cd or last mentioned month), for taxes on ac- count of said town, city or school district, res- pectiyely; and the treasurer to whom the same shall be so paid shall thereupon give to such collector duplicate vouchers for such payment, one of which such vouchers shall be- by said col lector, on the same day, lodged with said select men, mayor or district clerk as the case may be, who shall file the same in their or his res- pective offices.
 SEC. U. If any such collector shall at any time omit or neglect to furnish to the officers design ated in the proceeding section the said statement and vouchers or to make the payment therein prescribed, it shall be the duty of the selectmen m case of the collector of any town tax, and of the mayor, in case of the collector of any city tax, and of the board of education, in case of the collector of any school district tax, to suspend from his oiiice the party delinquent, and to take from him the rate bill. And in such case, the seiectmen of the town, when such collector shall have been appointed by the town, or the mayor and aldermen, when such collector shall have been appointed by the city, and the board of ed- ucation, when such collector shall have been ap- pointed by the said school district may depute some proper person to perform the duties of the collector so suspended, and to collect such rate bill or so much thereof as remains due, until the party suspended shall be restored to his office by the authority suspendng him, or until an other person shall be appointed in his place. And all the duties prescribed by this act and all the provisions of the several acts relating to
 
 so temporarily appointed.
 SEC. z. It shall be lawful for the selectmen of said town, in case of a town tax, and for the mayor and aldermen of said city, in case of a city tax, and for the board of education of the district, in case of New Haven city school dis trict tax, If they at any time deem it expedient % to do, to designate in what place the office for the collection and reception of such tax shall be kept, and during what hours of the day the same shall remain open for the reception of taxes
 SEC. 8. The several collectors hsreinbefore named shall be paid for their services an annual salary, at rate which will allow the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, as the aggregate compensation of all said collectors, (not includ- ing ofhce rent) that is to say. each of said col lectors shall be paid, ass such salary, sum which shall bear the same proportion to the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, as the amount of the annual rate-bill delivered to such collector for collection bears to the aggregate amonnt of the annual rate-bills delivered to all said col lectors for collection during the same year and the amount of such salary shall be annually fix cd, in accordance with the foregoing rule, by the selectmen of the town, in the case of the collec- tor of town taxes, and the court of common council in the of the collector of city taxes and the board of education in the case of the collector of New Haven city school district taxes and the salary so fixed shall be paid to such col lector by the treasurer of the town, city. or school district, the case may be, at such times as the authority fixing such salary shall deter mine Prouided, hoWeUer, that this section shall not apply to the compensation of any such col Hector who shall have been chosen to office prior to'ths first Monday of June, 1861, but the com pensation of every such collector, during his term of oice shall be the same as if this act had not been passed; and propided further that it shall be lawful for said selectmen and court of common council and board of education, by con- current action, to allow a less sum than twenty. five hundred dollars as the aggregate yearly compensation for the whole service of collection and in such case, the salary of each collector shall be fixed in proportion to such less sum in the same manner, as is hereinbefore provided. where the aggregate compensation is allowed at twenty-fv hundred dollars.
 SEC. g. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, 90 far as the same are applicable to the town or city of New Haven, or the New Haven city school district, are hereby repealed
 SEc. 10. This act shall take effect from and after the day of it's passage.
 Approved, June 14th, 1861.
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