The Placer herald., 1863-05-23
TOWN ORDINANCES.
TORDrNANCE No. l5.1


a, Ord;nauce. Lcyying and Providing lfOr
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
dain as follows;
SEC |. There shall be, and is hereby levied
upon all assessabe and taxable properly "ithih
the corporate limits of the Town OF Auburn, a
Tax of Two Dollars and ten cents upon each one
hundred dollars of taxable property III accord
ance with an act Of the Legislature OF Oaliornla'
entitled AN Act to authorize the Iown OF "A au-
burn TO take and subscribe Fifty Thousand DOE
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.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be, and is hereby made the
duty of the Town Assessor, to proceed immedl-
atey 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 lst day of April, A. D. 1863
SEC. 3 1t shall be the duty Of the Town
Clerk to furnish to the NJ rshal 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 sald CLERK
kept: and the Clerk shall from time to time
credit the Marshal with the amounts PAID 10y him
to the Treasurer.
SEC 4. 1t shall he 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
the work paid" opposite the name OF each
person thus paying aud shall proceed to collect
the reminder Of said taxes 10y 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 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 said delin-
qucut 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 eyying 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 "the inhabHonts
Of the T0tcH Of .fnJUU," and to procure the
issuing OF execution thereon. ana thc CORRECTION
of said Judgment in the mode and manner pre-
scribed by the laws Of this State, and the iudg
ments th0S acquired shall be lien upon all the
real estate Of The parties delinquent but of per-
sonal property (if any) shah first 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 pad over to the Town Treasur T.,
each week as collected, taking a receipt therefor,
and said receipt shall be filed with the Town
Clerk to enttle him to credit the amount of said
Mdrshal's account.
SEC, 9 This Ordinance to he in force and
effect from and after the 2lst day of March. 1868