The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-04-11
TOWN ORDINANCES.
TORpINANCE No. ISL

TORDlNANCE No. 15.]
An Ordinance, Levying and PrOvidinSlfor
the CoIlec ton 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. l.. 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 "An 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 Ap, 23d, 1860.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be, and is hereby made the
duty Of the Town Assessor, to proceed immedi-
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 alphabetically the name of each
person and describe the property of every de-
scripton 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 LIST day of April A. D. 1868.
SEC. 8 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 Marshal. 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. A. 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
each citizen at the time of being 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 of each
person thus paying, and shall proceed to collect
the reminder 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 tax payers.
he shall make out a correct list thereof with
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 deln
queut list. to file in the Justices Court of Town
ship No. 3 proper complaints against said dcln-
quents, each separately setting forth the fact of
the cvying of the tax, the assessing Of the prop
erty. the demand for payment of said tax, and
the refusal or failure so to do, and to prose-
cute the same to Judgment; said suits be-
ing prosecuted in the name of 'he inhabitants
Of the T0,cn Of .4ubWn," and to procure he
issuing OF execution thereon. and the collection
of said judgm eut in the mode and manner pre-
scribed by the laws of this State, and the judg-
ments thus acquired shall be lien upon all the
real estate of the parties delinquent, but of per-
sonal property. Gf any, shall first he exhausted
of said delinquent before the enforcement of said
lien against the real property OF said delinquent.
SEC. 5. A II moneys collected by the Marshal
shall be by him paid over to the Town Trelsur r..
each week as collected, taking receipt therefor,
and said receipt shall be filed with the Town
Clerk 10 entitle him to credit the amount of said
Marshal's acc cunt.
SEC. This Ordnance to be in force and
effect from and after the LIST day of March, 1868