The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-11

The Bill Proposing 10 Release the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com.
pany from All Arrearages of Taxa.
alton for The sum of So5, 900, and
All Future State, County and Local
Taxes for the Sum OF One Mill per
Mile.
The following is the bill now before
the Legislature in regard to the BaIti-
more and Ohio Railroad. By reading
ut any one can easily detect and under
stand its extraordinary provisions:
a BILL to amend and re-endct the ffty-
third and JiftyJourth sections of an
act passed on the third day Of Decem-
ben, 1868, entitled "1n Act to prOUide
for the assessment of tdzeS."
Be IL enacted by the Legislature of Vest
Virginid;
The fifty-third and fifty-fourth sec
tons of the act passed December Sd,
1868, entitled IAN act to provide for
the assessment of taxes" are hereby
amended and re-enacted so as 10 read
as follows:
%. Whenever, in anyone year, the
President, Secretary, or principal ac-
counting officer of any railroad COM
pany. shall fail to make the return
required by the tifty-second section of
the act of which this is an amendment.
in the manner and by the time therein
required, 1t shall be the daty of the re-
spective assessors of each of the several
counties through which said railroad
passes, to proceed to ascertain the val
uation of the property of said company
within his county, mentioned in the
preceding section and in the manner
therein prescribed, unless the said rail-
road company within sixty days after
the passage of this law, or within sixty
days after the first day of February, in
any year, shall report to the Auditor
OF this State, the number of passengers
transported during the previous year,
ending on the said first dav of Febru-
airy, over the said railroad within this
State, and the aggregate number of
miles travelled by them within this
State, during the said preceding year
prior to the said first day of February,
said report to be verified by the oath
or affirmation of the said President,
Sc cretary, or principal accounting off,
Ger. And if, at the time of making the
report aforesaid, the said company
shall pay into the treasury of this State
for every passenger transported, Il tax
at the rate of one mill for every mile of
transportation of each of the passen-
gers Aforesaid, such payment shall be
In lieu of all other taxation levied or
to be levied, TO which the said company
might in any wise be subject.
Oh: Every company failing to render
the lists and valuation of its property,
as provided in the tifty-second section.
ana which has not. in lieu thereof. re-
ported as aforesaid, to the Auditor of
this State, and made payment as afore-
said into the treasury of this State
shall be fined one hundred dollars for
every county through which their road
may pass. If any such company shall
iaiI TO pay the passenger tax aforesaid,
1t shall be liable to have any of itS
property sold by the sheriff or other
collecting officer, at his discretion, in
suthcient quantities to pay the taxes
for the said year; and in the alb
sence of any sufficient valuation of the
property, money and credits of such
company, or of any assessment oftaxes
thereon, the said company shall be
bound to pay the same amount of taxes
Tor which il was legally liable during
the year in which the last regular val.
uation and assessment shall have been
made, and If the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad Company, within ninety DAYS
after the passage of this act, accept the
provisions hereof, and pay into the
treasury of this State twenty-five thou-
sand dollars, they are hereby released
from all liability for the payment of all
State, local and county taxes heretotore
assessed or claimed against the said
company in this state, or that have ac-
crued against it up to the first Siav of |
February, eighteen hundred and sixty-
seven, and shall have a right, by pay
ing IN any year, into the treasury of this |
State the aforesaid tax of one mill per
mile on every passenger transported as
aforesaid, to commute and discharge
all taxes of the preceding year.
whether State, county or other taxes ( |
which shall be or might be assessed |
levied or imposed upon said Baltimore |
and Ohio Railroad Company, or apy of |
It's STOCK, property, profits or business
under the authority of this State.