The Placer herald., 1862-03-08
Proceedings of the Board Of Town Trustees

President; NJ. Andrews, 1aDD Mitchell ana Amos
F. Cove. Geo. l.. Anderson, Clerk.
The Committee, compo ed of Mitchell and An
drews filed their report in relation to the petition
of Jacob Gibson and Others, asking the Board OF
Trustees to levy special tax for the purpose of
building Reservoir, &c, for protection of pro-
perty against fire. Report read and adopted.
which indefinitely postpones the prayer OF petit
TONERS. Ordered, that the report be received.
committee discharged. and that said report be
published in the Placer Herald.
AUBURN, March 5th 1862.
To THE PRESIDENT. AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
THE TowN OF AUBURN.
Your committee to whom was referred the pc
tition of Jacob Gibson and Others, praying your
body to pass IAN ordinance for the purpose of
"levying Il Corporation tax on the real and per
"sonal property within the Corporation limits"
sfor the purpose of erecting suitable reservoir
.to hold water. with thelappurtenanccs thereto,
ito secure the property of said town against fire."
Have had the same under consideration and
Report.
That they deem it inadvisable to pass such an
Ordinance at this time, there not being money
enough in the town Treasury to pay for the
building of Reservoir" and "appertcnances"
pettioncd for; the law incorporating the town
specially provides that the Board of Trustees
shall not contracta debt unless there is money
in the Treasury to pay for the same.
In ordinary times your committee would be
favorably impressed with the object of the petit
tioners. and would unhesitatingly recommend
that tax be levied for the purpose. but when
we take into consideration the calamities of the
year. and the heavy taxes that our people will
soon have to meet we are constrained to recon-
mend that the subject matter of the petition be
indefinitely postponed.
Our town is yet young Corporate body
its population small in numbers, and already we
have assumed a debt Of $50 900 for Railroad pur-
poses, the interest on which will have TO he met
promptly. and tax for that purpose is required
by law to he levied at your present meeting, so
as to secure an amount equal to $4,000 to pay
the interest due on Railroad Bonds January 1st
1862, June lst, 1862, and January lst. 1863 This,
taken in connection with the amount of taxes
that the people of Auburn will have to pay to the
National Government, State Of California, and
the County of Placer, will make a burthensome
sum for our people, without your Committee
recommending additional taxes to be levied at
this time
In an improvement for supplying the town
with proper reservoirs. and other works necessary
for eXtinguishing fires it should be of such
IL character. as to be able to benefit the larger
portion, at least, of the property Of the Corpor-
alton To make an improvement of this kind
will require several thousand dollars. and owing
to the causes before stated we do not deem it ad-
viSablc to levy additional taxes for the purpose.
but recommend that the prayer of the petition
ers be deferred until such time as the Corpora
ton shall be able to erect works OF a durable
character for the extinsuishing Of fires aud the
protection of the property OF Auburn from con-
ia grafton
All of which is respectfully submitted.
TABB MITCHELL
NJ. ANDREWS. Committee.
Tabb Mitchell having been appointed to cx-
anime the Report OF the Town Treasurer. filed
last meeting reported the same correct. Ordered.
that the same be received. and committee dis
charged.
On motion of Amos 7. Cove that there be a
tax levied on the real and personal property of
the town Of Auburn of 50 % on the hundred
dollars. for the purpose of paying the annual in
t?rest on Railroad Bonds. was adopted
On motion of NJ. Andrews, the following Ord
nance was adopted
1OEDlNANCE No. ILL
An Ordinance, Icvying and providing for
the collection OF IA tax for the payment Of
interest upon Town Bonds.
The Trustees Of tie 7Orn Of .1ujurn. ITO or
d0in as tof(0,rs:
SEC. |. There shall he and is hereby levied upon
all assessablc and taxable property withinthr cor
pOrue limits OF the town of Auburn. Il tax Of
Two Dollars and Twenty-Five Gents npon each one
hundred dollars of ;s<cyslble ~ in accord
;,nce with an act OF tn" Legislature Of California;
entitled AN 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 y
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. 3. II shall be the duty Of the Town Clerk
to furnish to the Marshal u 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
raid Marshall 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. A. 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 dupli-
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 out 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 delnquents,
each separately setting forth the fact of the
lcvying of the tax the assessing of the property,
the demand for the payment of said tax, and the
refusal or failure so to do, and to prosecute the
same to judgments said suits being prosecuted in