Arizona citizen., 1873-07-05
ORDINANCE No, Il.

E T IS ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR
 E and Council of the Village of Tucson
 Section !. A municipal tax of One Dol lar upon each one hundred dollars value of taxable property is hereby levied, and di- rected to be collected upon the assessed val ue of all property within the corporate limits of the Village of Tucson not ex- empt from taxation by the laws of the Ter ritory of Arizona.
 Sec g. The Recorder shall make out an Assessment Roll and valuation of the property, Real and Personal within the Village based upon the Assessment Roll of the Sheriff of the County of Pima for the year 1873, and shall complete the sams ready for the inspection of Taxpayers on Monday, June g. 1873; and the said As- sessment Roll shall rem ain at the office oe the Recorder for inspection until Monday, July 2, 1873.
 Sec. 8. The Recorder shall cause mo- tice to be published in the ARIZONA CrrI- ZEN aad by posting notices in three of the most public places in the Village, in the English and Spanish languages, that the Assessment Roll will remain in his office from the 23d day of June to the 7th day of July for the inspection of all concerned and during said time, upon application of any Taxpayer or person interested, con- sidering himself aggrieved, may review and reduce the said valuation on sufficient cause shown to the satisfaction of said Re- corder and any such person shall have the right of appealing from such final decis- ion of the Recorder at any time within five days to the Council, which in like manner upon good cause shown, may review and reduce said valuation.
 Sec. 4. On the 7th day of July. 1873, the Recorder shall charge each individual named in the Assessment Roll an amount of tax in proportion to the amount of Real and Personal Estate Of such individual within the Village, and from and after the amount of tax is so added, the Assess ment Roll shall be known as the Tax Roll, and the Mayor for and on behalf and di- rection of the Council. shall thereupon an mex his warrant, duly attested by the Re- corder, directing the Marshal to collect the amount of tax so imposed.
 Sec. 5. Upon receiving the Tax Roll the Marshal shall proceed to collect the tax SC imposed, and all taxes not paid on or before the First Monday of August, shall be delinquent, and it shall be the duty of the Marshal to seize sufficient per- sonal property of any delinquent Tax payer to satisfy the amount of such tax, and sell the same to the highest bidders, after five days notice posted in at least three public places within the Village lim- its, and such sale with delivery of the prop erty to the purchaser shall pass absolute title in the property sold. If any delin- quent Taxpayer is possessed ofno personal property, then his Real Property shall be levied upon and sold as provided by law.
 Sec. 6. All payments of four dollars by any Taxpayer shall entitle such Tax payer to corporate lot, as Cfficially sur veyed, and it shall be the duty of the Re- corder to issue a deed without charge to such Taxpayer upon presentation of the MarshaPs receipt that the tax imposed has been paid; provided, that when the tax shall pOt equal the amount of one or moro lots of the even value of four dollars each the Taxpayer upon payment of such sn amount added to the tax as will eq uul the value of one or more lots, shall be entitled to a deed for lot for each four dollars 30 paid, and provided further that, the pro- visions of this section shall not apply to any Taxpayer who shall become delin- quent.
 Sec. T. The Marshal shall receive i've per cent. on the amount collected, which shall be in full for all services connected herewith, and shall give bonds in the sum of 5000, conditioned for the faithful per formance of his duties; and shall pay over to the Village Treasurer on Saturday Of each week all moneys received on account of tax during the week.
 Sec. 8. All the provisions of an act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, entitled an Act to provide rev- enue for the Territory of Arizona and the several counties thereof" approved Feb ruary IS, 1871, so far as they are not in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance, are hereby extended over and declared in force in carrying into effect the collection of the tax hereby as. sessed and imposed.
 Passed in the Common Council of the Village of Tucson, June l9, A. D., 1873.
 JAMES H. POOLE,
 Attest: Mayor.