The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-03-16

Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed hy she
Legislature OF Bouth Carolina.
AN Aor TO. ALTER AND AMEND AN Aor EMIT
tiled ssAN AoE TO PROVIDE FOR THE
ASSESSMENT AID TAXATION or Pro
PERTY." E f = s.
SEoIIoN i. B6n endcted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
State of South Carolina. now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and by the
authority of the same, That the Act to
provide for the assessment and taxation
of property, passed September Is, 1868,
be, and it is hereby, amended as follows:
Strike out from Section 63 the words
first Monday of December" and iusert
the words "last Monday in October;"
strike out from Section SO OF said Act,
the words "third Monday of December" {"
and insert the words "third Monday of
November;" strike out from Section 67
the words ''fourth Monday of Decem-
ber," and insert the words .'first Mon
day of December;" strike out from Sec
tion 68 the words "second Monday of
December" and insert the words s'first
Monday OF November" strike out from
Section SO the words 'first Monday of
December, and insert the words first
Monday of November" strike out from
Section 72 the words s'first day of Janu-
ary," and insert the words twentieth
day of December" strike out from Sec
tion 80 the words ''hrst Tuesday of
May" and insert the words ''third Tues
day of May"
SEC. 2. That Section 139 of the afore-
said Act be amended by inserting after
the word auditor" where it first occurs
on the fifth line of the Section. in the
printed Act. the words approved by the
County Commissioners"
"SEC. B. Be ii further enacted, That in
all cases whore the penalty for non-pay-
ment of taxes has attached to property
held by Assignees in Bankruptcy, and
which could not, or cannot, be sold be-
fore the time at which taxes become due;
and in oil cases where sales of property
for the settlement OF estates ordered by
any Court in this State have not been,
and cannot, for want of time, be made
in season for the payment of taxes due
thereon, the State Auditor, upon proper
evidence, that the taxes due upon such
property have not been, and cannot be
paid, until sale of said property is
made. may remit the penalty which by
law attaches for on-payment of taxes.
SEC. 4. The Treasurer of Charleston
County is hereby authorized to appoint
three Deputies, whose duty it shall be to
assist in the collection of taxes in said
County. Said Deputies shall each re-
celve as compensation for their services
the same commissions as are paid for the
collection OF taxes to the County Trea-
surer: Prooided, That the total amount
paid to each Deputy, in any current
year, shall not exceed the sum of five
hundred dollars: And prorided further.
That the duties of said Deputies shall be
confined to the collection of the simple
taxes, and shall not include the collec.
tion of taxes with penalties attached.
Said Deputies shall give such bond for
the faithful performance of their duty as
said County Treasurer shall require.
Sec. 5. The collection of taxes shall
not be stayed or prevented by any in
junction, writ or order issued by any
court or officer, except as provided for
in this Act, and in the Act to provide for
the assessment and taxation of property
aforesaid.
SEC. 6. Whenever any person, or per-
sons, charged with taxes upon the books
of any Tax Collector in this State, shall
state, in writing, to said Collector that
he, or they, have been enormously or
illegally charged with the same, said
Collector shall submit to the County
AuuiLOr Iuil statement OF the facts In
the case, which statement shall be for
warded to the State Auditor, with
such additional information, relating
thereto, as the said County Auditor may
be able to give; and that said Tax Col
lector shall not be required to proceed
against the party or parties 80 claiming
to have been erroneously or illegally
charged with taxes, by distress or other
wise, until the State Auditor shall, in
writing. direct him so to do.
Sec. 7. In any action or proceeding
against any Tax Collector in this State,
for the purpose of recovering any pro-
perty or money alleged to have been
enormously or illegally assessed and col
lected, the party bringing such action or
proceeding shall make it appear that
notice in writing of the claim on which
such suit may be brought was given to
said Tax Collector in pursuance of the
sixth (6th) Section of this Act and unless
it shall be made to appear that said Col
lector has proceeded, contrary to the
provisions of this Act, the amount reco-
vered in such suit shall not exceed the
value of tho property or money aforesaid.
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