The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-03-19
NUMBER II,
LAWS OF KANSAS.
Providing Township Assessors.
Published March Ill

Providing Township Assessors.
Published March III
AN ACT TO amend sections numbered seventy "
| six, seventy-seVen, seventy-eight seventy.
nine. eighty. eighty-one, eiEhty-twa and
eigkty-three of article FIVE. concerning coun-
| " assessors entitled an act relating to com
ties and county officers, approved Feb. 18th.
1865, and to abolish the office of county as
SCISSOR and create township assessors in lieu
thereof.
BE 1t enacted by the Legislature of the
State Of Kansas:
! Section l.. That sections numbered
seventy-siK, seVentv-seVen, seventy
eight, seVenty-nine, eighty. eightv-one.
ei9hty-twe and eighty three of article
five of chapter twenty-five of an act en-
titled an act relating to counties and
county officers, apr roved Feb. 20, 1865,
be amended so as 10 read as follows !:
Sec. rs. The township trustee of eh.il
township in this State shall be by VI: tue
of his office the assessor of his TOWN.
ship, and shall give an additional bond
to the one already required by law for
the faithful performance of their duties,
which bond shall be payable TO the
State of Kansas. Sld said bond shall lac
filed with the county clerk and approx
ed by fhe county commissioners. Sec.
II. Whenever the board of county
commissioners shall be of the opinion
that any township assessor is unable to
perform the duties of his Office accord
ing TO law, they may authorize said as
SCISSOR to appoint one or more deputies,
who shall be sworn and give bond sim
liar TO the assessor himself. Sec. as.
The board of county commissioners for
their respective counties shall have
power TO fill hv appointment any va
cancy in the office of township trustee,
and the chairman of the board of coun-
ty commissioners shall have power to
call q special meeting of the board for
the purpose of filling such vacancy.
Sec. T9. Such township trustee as the
township assessor and his deputy or
deputies shall receive such sum not ex-
ceeding three dollars per day for each
day of actual service i'll the discharge of
his or their duties as the board of coun-
ty commissioners may deem just and
right for the time actually engaged in
their duties. Sec. 81. Each township
trustee, as the township assessor of his
township, at the time for taking lists of
property Tor taxation in each year,
shall require each person III his town
ship to make a statement specifying the
number of acres he may have had in
wheat, rye, barley, corn, buckwheat,
oats, potatoes, sorghum, fax, hemp,
cotton, tobacco and grape wine by him
produced in the proceeding year. also,
the number of mules horses. cattle,
sheep and hogs over six months old +;
such assessor shall make a return OF
such statement to the county clerk OF
his comfy at the time OF returning the
list of property for taxation. Sec. 81.
The trustee of each township, as the as
SCISSOR thereof, shall, also, at the time OF
making the assessment in each year, as
certain and set down, in tables prepar-
ed for that purpose, list ofal persons
in his township who are deaf and dumb,
blind or idiots, setting fol- tn their res
pective names, ages, sex, and whether
they have ever attended school; also
the name of the father, mother or guar
dian, and post Office address of each.
which he shall return TO the county clerk
at the same time he returns the statement
mentioned in the foregoing section.
Sec. 80. The county clerk of each
county shall furnish each township as
SCISSOR such blanks as may be necessary
for taking the aforesaid statement, and
the county clerk shall, within sixty days
after the aforesaid statements are re-
turned to him, make out and forward TO
the Auditor of State a tabular statement
of all the returns made to said clerk I'M
der this article. Sec SO. 1t shall be the
duty of the Auditor of State to embody
in his annual report to the Legislature
all returns made to him under this arti-
Gle; and he shall also lay copies of the
part of such statement concerning the
deaf, dumb, blind and idiots, before the
superintendent of the institutions res
pectivety tor the care and education OF
such persons.
Sec. 2. That all incorporated cities
of the first and second classes are here
by declared townships for the purpose
of this act, and shall annually, at the
general city election, elect one assessor
whose duties and power shall be the
same as prescribed by law for township
assessors.
SEC. 3. The office of county assessor
is hereby abolished, and all the duties
devolving upon aud required of county
assessors under any law of this State
shall be performed by the township
trustee of each township in this State.
SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its pIlblica-
ton once in the Daily Kansas State
Record.
Approved March 8, 1889.
/, Thomas Moonlight, Secretary of
State, do hereby certify that the forego-
ing is true and correct copy OF the
original enrolled bill on file ia this Office.
In testimony whereof / have sub
scribed my name and affixed the great
seal of the State, this 9th day of March,
A. u. 1869. THOMAS MOONLIGHT,
IL. ST. Secretary of Statee.