The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-04
OFFICIAL.
E1EoUTIvR DBpARTMERy,
OFFIcE OF CoMPTRoLLER-GENER
9OoLuhBrA, g. c., March I, 1878.
[CIROULAR NO. 12.]

0uql'or -.-Oounty.
eral Assembly, approved February eth, 1879.
you will, on receipt Of this, instruct your
county treasurer to tasue his executions for
unpaid taxes and penalties Of 1879. % soon
twenty per cent. penalty charged thereon. as
noted in Circular g." and require him to
proceed at once to the speedy collection of
the same by distress or otherwise.
The fees allowed Treasurers as costs are "A
follows, viz i:
On the amount delinquent. s per cont.
For Issuing executions. IS so
For For s entry Of same in execution book. 50 50
FOR Advertising property for sale. . 2 90
For mileage, [oE!y one way, per mile, Ito
ne computed from the county Court
Section 6. Chapter IS, lille 5, Of General
Statutes gives the County Treasurer ample
power to enforce the collection OF his e1ecu-
tons ho n RrSo%ptl} Sa and yon win remind him that
penalties due on his duplicate, save for res-
sons specified in Section 90, Chapter Ia, Title
., OF Statutes aforesaid; and the Treasurer
,nnst exhaust tho personally before proceed
On or before the 10th OF April next, You will
examine the Tressurer's duplicate. and ro-
ceive from him the delinquent list, on which
nss ~. ne Will certify TO you the name O: any
assessment, tax or penalty for A. d. 1871
unpaid, Tor or on account of any real estate
IN your County; and you will publish the
same tdo!inqnent list weekly for two weeks.
between April 10 and May 5. 1878, in the man
nor and form as prescribed in General sta
tutes,. Title 8, Chapter 1s. Section IL. The
day OF aale will be May S, 1873; and Won viii
attach notice to said list in the manner and
form as noted in Section II above. The
above sale will be conducted in the manner
prescribed i'll Section 1S. Of above mentioned
Chapter, as amended by Section l, Act No.
l25. approved March IL, 1879.
You will keep tie record OF aale as noted in
Sectlon ~ Chapter 13, Title 3 AZ above, and
on Which depends tho correctness OF assess.
ments Tor 1873, and obviatcs the reference to
thls olnce OF petitions for "eIroneous ass css-
m"nts." often styled ''clcrcal errors"
1oar attention IL invited to Sections o. and
80. OF Chapter l3, above noted; and it is abso-
intely certain that il any OF tho above direo.
tlons are not complied with, and on the days
speciied, that the sales made will be null and
voih IN law, and entail upon your flee repu-
tation undesirable.
as roon as tho salos are completed, as
above. You will be furnished with "Se. tlement
Sheets" to closo the accounts of 1879; and
you arc instructed to prepare and for yard The
same, with the "FOrfeitod List" by the
County Treasurer. on or before the let day OF
Juno next for II final settlement Of all taxes
for 1872. thereby obviating any impeachment
to the assos: inent OF 1878. You will convey
herein noted. which will be binding on each
of you copy Of tho Same being sent by mail
to your address; and, being so delivered. Won
VII repert your action to this Office. Respect.
fally, etc, s. &. HOGE.
Comptroller G General Of South Carolina.
Approved: F. MOSES. JR.
Mar4 Governor or South Carolina
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