The Placer herald., 1863-07-18
TOWN ORDINANCES.
rORpINANCE No. 15.1

GORDINANCE No. 151
An Ordinance, Levying and Providing for
the Collection Of Tax for the Payment
of Interest upon Town Bonds for the
Year 1868.
The Trustees of the Town of Auburn do or
dain as follows:
|. SEC. |. There shall be, and is hereby levied
upon all assessabe hnd taxable property within
the corporate limits of the Town OF Auburn,
Tax of Two Dollars and ten cents upon each one
hundred dollars of taxable property In accord
ance with an act of the Legislature of California;
entitled San Act to authorize the Town OF Au
burn to take and subscribe Fifty Thousand Dol
lars to the Capital Stock Of the Sacramento,
Placer and Nevada Railroad Company, and to
provide for the payment of the same" APPROX
ed April 23d, 1860.
duty of the Town Assessor, to proceed lmmed-
atciy after the first publication of this Ordinance
with assessing the real and personal properly
within the corporate limits of said town. lie
shall take down alphabetically the name OF each
person and describe the property OF every de-
scription assessed, with the amount OF valuation
thereof and he shall complete said assessment,
and return his assessment roll to the Town Clerk
on or by the lst day Of April, A. D. 1868.
SEC. g. 1t shall be the duty OF the Town
Clerk to furnish to the Marshal a correct copy of
said Assessment Roll, with the amount OF taxes
correctly 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 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 4. 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
oh nt ha time heinz assessed, the
amount of taxes thus levied. and when the copy
of said roll is furnished him, he shall mark there
ON the work paid" opposite the name Ol each
person thus paying, and shall proceed to collect
the remainder of said taxes by the first OF May,
A. D. 1863 and if by said time there shall re-
main upon said list any delinquent taxpayers.
he shall make out a correct list thereof with Il
description, of the property. amount OF assess
mcnt and amount OF taxes due, and return the
same to the Clerk. or the Board OF Trustees.
SEC s. 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 dclin
queut list to file in the Justices Court OF Town
shin No. g. proper complaints against said delin
auents, each separately setting forth the fact OF
the levying Of the tax, the assessing OF the prop
erty the demand for payment oil said tax, aud
the refusal or failure to do. and to prose
cute the same to judgment; said suits be-
ing prosecuted in the name Of ''he nh06iants
of the To,rn Of .4ubnrn," and to procure the
issuing of execution thereon. and the collection
of said Judgment in the mode and manner pre-
scribed by the laws OF this State. and the judg
ments thus acquired shall be a lien upon all the
real estate of the parties delinquent. but Of per-
sonal property. (if any, shall first be exhausted
Of said delinquent before the enforcement Of said
lien against the real property OF said delinquent
SEC. 5. All moneys collected by the Marshal
shall be by him paid over to the Town lreasur 4,
each week as collected taking 4 receipt therefor
and said receipt shall be filed with the Town
Clerk to cntite him to credit the amount OF said
Marsha's account
SEC 6 This Ordinance to be in force and
effect from and after the 2ls day of March. 1868