The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-01-09
LAWS OF VERMONT.

Designated by the Secretary of State for
publication in all the Newspapers
No. 1S.-An act authorizing the Governor to
appoint listers and collectors of taxes for
the several cores in this State.
1t is hereby enacted, Nc.:
Sec. /. The governor shall, before the
first day of March. annually, appoint in every
county in which there are any cores. or unor-
ganized towns. fit person to be oommiss-
er, and also a fit person to be collector
Such persons, shall, as fsr as practicable, be
residents of some town near to such gore or
unorganized towns, and they shall hold their
office till others are appointed.
Sec. .. Said commissioner Immediately
after his appointment shall be swsrn to the
faithful discharge of his duty, certificate of
which oath shall be endorsed on his COM
mission, which commission with certificate
thereon, he shall cause to he recorded in the
office of the county clerk of the county where
he resides. Such commissioner shall, and
he is hereby authorized, on or Immediately
after tie first day of April in each year to,
take the list of all the persons in said cores
or unorganized towns, whose polls, personal
property, and real estate are liable 10 taxa
ton, and also the property. real and personal,
of non-residents, in the same manner as lis
tiers of towns perform their duties in their
respective towns. Such list shall, when COM
pleted, be deposited in thetown clerks office
in the town in which such commissioner re-
side, and be subject to examination in the
.la
list of towns now are, and applications for
attachments and corrections shall be made TO
such commissioner in the same manner as
such applications are made to listers in towns.
Such commissioners shall have the same
power TO act in the premises as listers and
selectmen have, in like cases, in towns, and
shall on or before the first Thursday of Octo-
ber in each year return copy of each list by
him made to the Treasurer of the State. The
first appraisal of the real estate made by the
commissioner in making said list, and the
appraisal so made at the expiration of each
five wears thereafter, shall be the basis of
taxation, subject TO such corrections and a.
terations by the commissioner, as listers OF
organized towns are authorized to make each
wear and il shall not be required that said
list should be revised or acted upon by the
committee Of listers or the committee of the
Legislature 20 average the grand list.
Sec. ). Whenever any State tax shall
hereafter be assessed on the polls and ratea-
BILE estate of the inhabitants of this State. the
Treasurer shall make out tax on the copies
of the lists so returned 10 him by such COM
missioners. and shall Immediately transmit
TO each of the collectors. appointed BY virtue
of this act, a tax bill on the list of all the
cores or unorganized towns in their respee-
tive counties, with his warrant attached there
10, commanding such collector to levy and
collect such tax, and pay the same into
the Treasury.
Sec. 1. II shall be the duty of every COZ
lector. appointed by virtue of this act, and he
is hereby authorized 10 collect the State tax
agreeahly to the rate bill and wGrraf, COM
miiteji to him hy the Treasurer for oollse-
ton. in the same manner and with the same
powers that first eonstables have In organ
lied towns, and be subject TO the same pen
al,ieS Such collectors, before thev shall
proceed 10 the discharge Of their duties, shall
give bond TO the State for the faithful per-
formance of the same, in the same manner as
the first consiables of towns are required TO
DO in ike cases TO their respective towns, and
in such sum as the Treasurer of the Stale
shall prescribe. which bond shall be approved
by the commissioner in the county in which
he resides, which approval shall be endorsed
on said bond, before any warrant for eollec-
ton snail be placed in his hands by the Treas
urer and the issuing by the Treasurer of such
warrant TO the collector shall be sufficient evi-
dence of the approval and delivery of such
bond 10 the Treasurer as aforesaid. And in
all cases where constables are now required
hy law in the collection of taxes to leave with
the town clerk for record any advertisements,
warrants. rate-b.llS, or lists OF lands sold. or
any ether matter or thing, the same shall be
left by the collectors provided for in this act.
with the town clerk of the town wherein the
commissioner for the curnty wherein such
gore or urorganized town is situated, resides,
and such town clerk is hereby authorized
and required to record such advertisements
and make certificate of the due publication
thereof. and record all such warrants, rate
bills, lists of lands sold. and other matter or
, thing which NAV be left with him fer record
as aforesaid, and may receive redemption for
lands sold, in case the collector shall Gie or
remove from the town where he resided al
/ the time of making such sale, and the record
( of such town clerk and his certificate of pub
leation, and his certified copies Of record.
shall have the same force and effect as If
made by town clerks Of organized towns pur-
suant to the laws regulating the collection of
taxes therein.
Sec. ). The commissioners appointed BY
virtue of this act, shall have the same power
/ to abate any tax In the hands of the collector,
in the county in which, he resides, for collec-
ton, as the civil authority have in towns TO
abate taxes, and to issue certificate of such
abatement, to the Auditor of Accounts, who
shall draw orders on the State Treasurer for
the amount of such attachments, which orders
shall be receivable by the Treasurer from the
collector for the amount of such taxes.
i Sec. 6. The commissioners appointed by
virtue of this chapter Tact shall receive fol
their services, two dollars and fifty cents Del
day, and the collector shall receive FIVE pei
cent for the collection of State taxes, and tn,
Auditor of Accounts is hereby authorized I,
draw orders on the treasury to pay the same
Approved, December l, 1862
No. l9.-An act appointing a collector o
, taxes against the inhabitants of The old
town of Sterling.
, Ii is hereby enacted, &c.
: Sec. /. Oren Lyman of Morristown. is
hereby authorized and directed to levy and
collect any and all taxes that may be assessed
on the grand list of the inhabitants and Ter
ritory which would now be the town of Ster
! ling. if the same had not been annexed to tn.
towns of Johnson, Morristown and Stowe
said assessments being made by virtue of a;
"a. .nnrnyrl Nnv ol lSll and III. sid 1.