The Placer herald., 1863-05-16
TOWN ORDINANCES.

[ORDGNANCE No. l5.1
An Ordinance, Levying and Providfngafor
| the Collection of a 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 assessable and 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 IAN 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 Api 23d, 1860.
| Sec 2. 1t shall be, and is hereby made the
| duty Of the Town Assessor, to proceed immed-
ately 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 al 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. 3 1t shall be the duty Of the Town
Clerk to furnish to the NJ rshal q 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
| q hair 1I thn
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 OF each
person thus paying. and shall proceed to collect
| the remain ier of said taxes by the first OF May,
| A. D. 1868. and if by said time there shall re-
main upon said list any delinquent taxpayers
he shall make out a correct list thereof with a
description, of the property. amount of assess
ment, 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 sld delin
| queut list, to file in the Justices Court of Town
| ship No. 3 proper complaints against said delin-
quents, each separately setting forth the fact of
| the evying Of the tax the assessing Of the prop
| erty the demand for payment oil said tax, and
| the refusal or failure so to do and to prose-
cute the same to judgments; said suits be-
| ing prosecuted in the name of ''the inhabitants
| Of the IOtcn Of .4nbn1n,' and to procure the
| issuing of execution thereon. and the collection
of said dgment 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. Gf 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 Treasur r.
each week as collected. taking a receipt therefor
and said receipt shall be filed with the Town
Clerk to entitle him to credit the amount of said
| NJ Mlrshal's account.
| SEC This Ordinance to be in force and
effect from and after the 2lst day of March, 1868