Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-11-22
Approved Nov. 9, 1866.
An act relating to the collection of Taxes
in unorganizcd Towns and Cores.

in unorganizcd Towns and Cores.
1t is hereby enacted. &c.
SEC. |. An act entitled "An act au-
thoriziug the Governor to appoint listers
and collectors of taxes in the cores in this
State" approved Dec /, 1862, shall be
so constructed that in case the Governor
shall fail to make the appointment either
of commissioner or collector before the
first day of March in any year, agreeable
to said act, he shall have authority to
make such appointment at any time there
after during such year; in either of said
Offices by reason of death, resignation or
otherwise, the Governor is authorized,
during the year, to appoint others with
like powers and duties to Eli their places.
And the Governor may appoint the same
person to fill both Offices of commissioner
and collector. or separate persons, as he
may think proper.
SEC. 2. Said act is so amended that it
shall be the duty of commissioners therein
named to make aud deposit with the cou-
ty clerks of their respective counties, their
lists in said act mentioned, on or before
the first Thursday of September in each
year hereafter on which day, and from
day to day thereafter, they shall hear APP
plications of persons aggrieved, for the
correction or alteration OF such list until
all such applications shall have been
heard and decided; and they shall make
such alterations in said list as they shall
deem just and proper, without being re
quired to give notice as is required of lis
tiers in organized towns.
SEC 3. The valuation of the real es-
tate contained in the several lists afore-
said, for the year 1865, shall be the ba-
sis of taxation for each succeeding year
until the year 1870 in which year new
apprisal shall be made, and also in each
fifth year thereafter; and each of said
apprasals shall be the basis of taxation
until another shall be made, subject to
any corrections by the commissioner as
aforesaid
SEC. 4. Said commissioners shall not
be required hereafter to transmit a copy
OF their lists to the State Treasurer, but
it shall be their duty to make and return
to the clerk of the House of Representa-
tives. as an abstract of their list when
completed and corrected by them, in the
same manner as listers of organized towns
are now required to do.
Sec. 5. The State Treasurer shall not
be required hereafter to transmit any tax
bill to the several collectors but he shall
continue to transmit to them his warrants
for the collection Of any State taxes, in
the same manner as now required in said
act.
Sec. 6. Whenever any State tax shall
be hereafter assessed on the polls and
ratable estate of the inhabitants of the
State, it shall be tho duty of each of said
commissioners to make and transmit to
the collectors of their respective counties,
tax bill for the collection of said tax,
to be made on the list Of the unorganized
towns and cores in said county, for the
year in which said tax was assessed, in
Guiding all said towns and cores in such
county in one tax bill, which shall con.
tain copy Of the list by them made for
the year in which said tax was assessed,
and shall be made by setting down
against each item in said list, the amount
of tax thereon; and he shall certify
thereon that said tax bill was made by
him as commissioner and that il con-
tains true copy Of the list for the year
in which the tax was assessed, with the
amount of tax assessed. And it shall be
the duty of each collector to collect such
agreeabIy to such tax bill and the war
rant of the treasurer aforesaid ; and any
conveyance made by such collector in the
collection of such tax, shall have the
same force and effect as if made by a
constable in the collection of taxes in Or
gained towns, and be subject to the same
right of redemption and sales Of land Of
non-resideuts may be made by such col.
lectors in pursuance of this act, at any
time between the FIRST day of May and
the first day of July following; and in
case of such sales, the collectors shall be
allowed the same fees as is provided in
section thirty-two of chapter eighty four
of the General Statutes. for town consta.
bles.
SEC. 7. Said collectors, previous to ad
vcrtising for sale any lands of non.resi
dents, shall leave for record in the office
Of the county clerk of the comfy in which
said lands lie, his warrant for the collec
ton of said tax, or a copy thereof by him
certified. and a copy of so much of said
list and tax bill annexed as relates t.
said nou-rosidents' lands, certified by him
to be true copies And said county clerk
shall record the same, aud copy of such
record, certified by the county clerk, shall
be prima .facia evidence of such warrant
list, and rate bill. And said collector
shall advertise such Presidents lands
for sale, agreeably to the provisions Of
sections twenty-six, twenty.eight, twenty.