The Placer herald., 1863-07-04
TOWN ORDINANCES.
TORpINANCE No. 15.]

1ORDINANCE NO. l5.l
An Ordinance, Levying ana providing 1or
the Collection Of Il Tax for the Payment
of Interest upon Town Bonds for the
Year 1868.
The Trustees of the Town of Auburn do or
dan as follows:
SEC. |. There shall be, and is hereby levied
upon all assessable and taxable properly Wlthlh
the corporate limits of the Town of Auburn, a
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 ''An Act to authorize the lown OF Au-
burn to take and subscribe Fifty Thousand DOL
lars to the Capital Stock OF the Sacramento
Placer and Nevada Railroad Company, ana 10
provide for the payment of the same" Approv-
ed April 23d, 1860.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be- and is hereby made the
duty of the Town Assessor to proceed lmmedl-
ately after the first publication OF this Ordinance
with assessing the real and personal properly
within the corporate limits of said town. He
shall take down alphabetically the name OF each
person and describe the property OF every de-
scrpton assessed, with the amount OF valuation
thereof and he shall complete said assessment,
and return his assessment roll to the Iowh Clerk
on or by the lst day of April, A. D. 1865.
SEC. g. 1t shall be the duty of the Town
Clerk to furnish to the Marshal 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 Marshal in an account to be by said Clerk
kent: 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 ne
may accompany the Assessor and demand from
each citizen Mt the time OF being assessed, the
| Of tnvo Tins nvip1 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 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 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 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-
queu list. to file in the Justices Court OF Town
shin No 3 proper complaints against said delin-
quents. each separately setting forth the fact of
the levyng Of the tax, the assessing OF the prop
erty, the demand for payment OF said tax, and
the refusal or failure so to do. ana to prose
cute the same to Judgment; said suits be-
ing prosecuted in the name Of "the iihG6ltdntS
of tie T0tc35 of .Au5Un," and to procure the
issuing of execution thereon. and the collection
of said Judgment in the mode and manner pre-
scribed by the lays OF this State, and the judg-
ments'thus acquired small be q lien upon all the
real estate OF the parties delinquent. but of per-
sonal property. Gf any.) shall lilst be exhausted
OF said delinquent before the enforcement OF said
lien against the real property OF said delinquent.
SEC. g. 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 he filed with the Town
Clerk to entitle him to credit the amount OF said
MarShal's account.
SEC. 6 This Ordinance to be in force and
effect from and after the 2lst day of March, 1868