Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-17
Guild 9lill advertisements.
ordinance No. lO.---An
" Ordinance to provide for the

The inhabitants of the town of Gold
Hill do ordain as follows:
SECTION l. An annual ad valorem
ak of fl fly cents upon each one hun.
dred dollars value of taxable property,
is hereby levied and directed to be
collected and paid for town purposes,
upon the assessed value Of all property
in the limits of the incorporated town
of Gold Hill not exempt from taxa
ton. All taxes levied under the pro-
visions of this ordinance, shall be paid
in the gold and silver coin of the
United States, or in foreign coin at
the value fixed therefor by the laws
of the United States.
Sec. 2. All property in the said
town of Gold Hill shall be taxed as
real or personal property. The term
real property, as used in this ordi-
nance, shall include lands and all i'm
movable property thereon. The term
personal property, as used in this ordi-
nance, shall include all property ex-
cept real property as herein before
described.
Sec. 3. All property within the
limits of the town shall be subject to
taxation, and shall be assessed accord
ingly, except
First-Property belonging to this
Territory, to the United States, not
in possession of any individual or cor
poration, and property belonging to
the county of Storey, in this Territory.
Second-School houses and other
public buildings for the purposes Of
education, and the land on which such
buildings may be situate; provided,
that if such school houses or build
ings be private property from which
a rent is derived, the same shall be
taxed as other property.
Third-Public hospitals, asylums,
poor-houses, and other charitable or
benevolent institutions, so long as the
same shall be used for the relief of
the INDECENT and afflicted, without ex-
pectation of pecuniary gain.
Fourth-Churches, chapels, and
other buildings for religious worship,
with their furniture and equipments,
and the lots of ground on which the
same my stand; provided, that if
any such building be used for any
other purpose, and yield rent, the
same shall be taxed as other property.
Fifth-The mines; provided, that
all machinery used in mining claims
and all property and Improvements
appurtenant to or upon mining claims
which have an independent and sep
arate value that can be estimated and
taxed without taxing such mining
claims, shall be subject to taxationE
Sec. i. Immediately after the pas
sing of this ordinance, the Board of
Trustees shall proceed to elect one
town assessor, who shall hold his Of
fee for one year, and until his sue
cessor is elected and qualified, and
the said assessor shall have the power
to appoint one deputy assessor, and
shall become responsible for the acts
of the said deputy.
Sec 5. The town assessor, before
entering upon the duties of his office,
shall execute to the town .of Gold
Hill bond in the penal sum of one
thousand dollars, with two or more
sufficient sureties conditioned for the
faithful performance of all the duties
of his Office required by law, or the
ordinances of this town, and shall
take the oath of office, which shall
be Endorsed on the certificate of his
election.
SEC. 6. In case of any vacancy in
the office of Assessor, unless such
vacancy shall occur after the COM
plete performance of the duties re.
quired for the current year, the Board
Of Trustees shall cause the vacancy to
be filed at the first regular meeting
after the vacancy occurs.
SEC. 7. The town assessor shall
keep a daily account of the number
of days he shall be actually employed
in the discharge of his official duties,
and shall present the same after he
shall have completed his official du-
ties for the year to the Board of
Trustees at the time they meet as a
Board of Equalization, and the &C
count so rendered shall be verified by
the oath of the Assessor before some
officer authorized to administer oaths;
and the Board may further require
such Assessor to answer definitely
under oath, any and all questions
touching or pertinent to the discharge
of his duties.
Sec. s. Between the third Monday
of October and the third Monday of
November of each year, the town as
SCISSOR shall ascertain, by diligent in
quiry and examination, the names of
all persons, corporations, associations,