The Placer herald., 1862-03-15
TORDINANCE No. Ill

the collection Of a tax for the payment of
interest upon Town Bonds.
The Trustees of the To,cn of .4u6urn, do or
dai,, as toilotDs:
Sec. l. There shall be- and is hereby levied upon
all assessable and taxable property within the cor
porate limits of the town of Auburn, q tax Of
Two Dollars and twenty-five Gents upon each one
hundred dollars of assessable property in accord
ance with an act Of the Legislature of California,
entitled San Act to authorize the town Of Auburn
to take and subscribe Fifty Thousand Dollars to
the Capital Stock of the Sacramento, Placer and
Nevada Railroad Company. and to provide for
the payment of the same" Approved April 23d,
1860
SEC. 2 1t shall be, and is hereby made the duty
of the Town Assessor, to proceed Immediately
after the first publication of this Ordinance. with
assessing the real and personal property within
the corporate limits of said town. He shall take
down alphabetically, the name of each person
and describe the property of every description
assessed, with the amount of the valuation there
Of and he shall complete said assessment, and re-
turn his assessment roll to the Town Clerk on or
by the 18th day of March, A. D. 1862
Sec. g. 1t shall be the duty of the Town Clerk
to furnish to the Marshal correct copy Of said
Assessment Roll, with the amount of taxes cor
rectly computed to each person, and the whole
amount Of said taxes shall be by him added up.
and the total amount thereof charged against
said Marshal. in an account to be by said Clerk
kept: and the Clerk shall from time TO time credit
the Marshal with the amounts paid by him to the
Treasurer.
SEC. f. 1t shall be the duty Of the Marshal to
collect from each and every person the amount OF
taxes hereby assessed, and for that purpose he
may accompany the Assessor and demand from
each citizen at the time of being assessed. the
amount of taxes thus levied. and when the dup-
cate copy of said roll is furnished him, he shall
mark thereon the word "paid' opposite the name
of each person thus paying and shall proceed to
collect the remainder OF said taxes by the first Of
April. A. D. 1862. and if by said time there shall
remain upon said list any delinquent taxpayers,
he shall make ont correct list thereof with
description of property. amount of assessment
and amount OF taxes due, and return the same
to the Clerk. or the Board OF Trustees.
SEC. 5. 1t shall be the duty OF the President of
the Board of Trustees upon the order Of the Board,
to proceed, after the return of said delinquent
list to file in the Justices Court of Township No.
3, proper complaints against said deinquents,
each separately setting forth the fact of the
levying of the tax, the assessing of the property
the demand for the payment of said tax, and the
refusal or failure to do, and to prosecute the
same to Judgment said suits being prosecuted in
the name of "Me inhabitants Of the toWm of
.fuburn," and to procure the issuing of execution
thereon, and the collection of said judgment in
the mode and manner OF collecting judgments
usually prescribed by the laws of this State, and
the judgments thus acquired shall be lien upon
all the real estate of the parties delinquent, but
Of personal property, Gf any, shall first be ex-
hausted of said delinquent before the enforce
ment of said lien against the real property of
said delinquent
Sec. 5. All of the general provisions of the
general revenue laws of this State so far as they
can practically be applied to the assessment and
collecting of the taxes heretofore mentioned and
which do not conflict herewith, are hereby adopt
ed and made part of this ordinance.
SEC. g. All moneys collected by the Marshal
shall be by him paid over to the Town Treasurer
by the first day of April. 1862, taking receipt
therefor and said receipt shall be filed with the
Town Clerk to enttle him to credit the amount
| to said Marshals account.
SEC. 9. This Ordinance to be in force and effect
from and after its passage.
[ORDINANCE No. l2.]
For Taxing Loose or Unclaimed Dogs.
The Trustees of the Town of Auburn do or
dain rs follows:
hereby levied on every Dog owned within the cor
porate limits Of the town Of Auburn, found at
large within said town, on and after the first day
of April, 1862.
SEC. 2. Annually on the last Monday in March,
it shall be the duty of the Cler of the Board of
Trustees to deliver to the Town Treasurer, as
many brass or copper tags as may be necessary and
being numbered from one up to the highest num-
Der, delivered to the Treasurer; and said tags
shall be altered annually in shape so as to be
easily designated from the tags issued the pre-
cedng years.
SEC 3. On or before the first Monday in April,
Of each year it shall be the duty of the Town
Marshal to draw from the Treasurer many
tags rs he may be ahle to dispose of, giving re-
cept for the same. one of which tags he shall
deliver to any inhabitant of the town of Auburn,
upon payment of two dollars.
SEC 4. Every dog that shall be found running |
at large within said town after the 10th day of
April, 1862, not having one of the tags furnished
by the Marshal, according to section two of this
Ordinance, attached to collar upon his neck. |
shall be liable to be killed by any person, and it
is hereby made the duty of the Marsh Il to put to
death any dog so at large without said tag. All
moneys collected under this Ordinance shall be
paid over by the Marshal to the Treasurer on the
first Monday Of each month, less his per centage
for collecting the same, which is hereby fixed at
one dollar for each and every tag sold. And it
shall be the further duty of the Town Marshal to
file report with the Clerk, on the first Monday
in each month, containing list Of those citizens
who have purchased dog tags the preceding
month.
SEC. s. Ordinance No. 3, is hereby repealed.
and this Ordinance shall be in force and effect on
and after its passage