Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-03-11
THE HERALD.
Laws Of Wisconsin
Published February o, 1880 ]

u
AN ACT to provide for the assessment of
property and collection of taxes in certain
cases.
The people Of the State of Wisconsin, repre-,
sented in senate and assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section ]. In any case where the assess-
ment roll and records of any town or city In
this State we're destroyed by fire or other &C.
cident prior TO January LIST, 1880. and before
the tax roll was placed in the hands of the
tovr treasurer, tie fact Of the destruction of
such assessment roll and records shall not
prevent the levy and collection Of the tax
ehargeable upon the property CT said town
or city for the year 1879, but the same shall
be levied and collected as he reinafter pro-
yided.
Section 2. In the case specified in the
foregoing section, the supervisors of the
town or city shall, by an order to be entered
in their minutes, direct the assessors of such
town to forthwith proceed to make an assess-
ment of all the real and personal property
liable to taxation for the year 1879 in bis or
their assessment district, and to complete
said assessment and make return thereof with
their assessment roll and all sworn statements
made others, and valuations made by them
Of personal property and bank stock, to the
clerk Of such town or city, within time
mentioned in said order, which time shall
not be mere than thirty days nor less than
ten days from date of said order. Such Or
der shall also provide that on the last day
limited for the completion and return of the
assessment roll, the board OF the review will
meet at the town or city clerks Office, to re-
view said assessment.
Section 8. Within three days after the
entry Of said order. the clerk of such city or
town shall make and serve upon the assessors
or assessor of such town or city, q
copy of said order. and shall also post
up copy thereof in at least three of the
most public places ia the assessment district
where the assessment is to be made, and no
other or further notice shall be required Of
the meeting of the board of review than the
notice con sained in the copy of the order
posted up, as aforesaid.
Section 4. The county clerk Of the county
within which such assessment is situated,
shall on demand made by the chairman of
supervisors Of such town or city, furnish q
proper assessment roll, tax roll, blanks, and
all other papers necessary to be used by the
assessor, or the town or city clerk 10 the dis.
charge of their duties, which assessment roll
tax roll. and blanks shall be the same as pro-
vided for by chapter forty>eight (4s) of the
revised statutes and shall be sent TO the
clerk of the town or city requiring the same
ard said clerk shall Immediately deliver the
assessment roll ana blanks to be used in
making the assessment to the assessor of the
assessment district where the assessment is
to be made.
Section s. Upon the receipt of said order,
assessment rol! and blanks. the assessor shall
proceed and make an assessment of all the
property liable to taxation in his assessment
district for the year 1879, which assessment
shall be made and the property valued in all
respects as provided by law for the annual
assessment of property for taxation in this
State, except as herein otherwise expressly
provided.
Section 6. The assessor shall complete
such assessment and make return thereof as
provided in said order, and on the day
named in said order the board of review,
consisting of the officers specified in section
one thousand and sixty Il ,060) of the revised
statutes, shall meet, whereupon the assessor
and board of review shall proceed in all re-
spects as provided in chapter iorty-eight
t4S) of tie revised statutes and when said
assessment roll is completed. the assessor
shall make and annex thereto the affidavit
provided by section one thousand and sixty.
three glossy ofthe revised statutes, and shall
forthwith deliver the same, with all sworn
statements and valuations of personal pro-
perty, to the clerk of the town or city, who
shall file and preserve the same 10 his Office
Section 7. r. the certificates to be made
to such town or city for the year 1879, pro-
Weed for by section one thousand and seven.
ty-six (l076) of the revised statutes, shall
have been lost, the clerk of said town or city
shall procure of the county clerk of the
county certificate specifying the taxes ap-
portioned to said town for said year, which
certificate shall be made in all respects as
provided in said section one thousand and
seventy-six (076).
Section 8. Within the time required for
the completion Of said assessment, the board
of supervisors Of the town, or city council of
the city, shall under their hands certify to
the town or city clerk, the amount of taxes
voted by the people to be raised in said town
or city for said year 1879, and all other taxes
authorized to be raise in said town or city
for said year 1879, other than the taxes GER
tilted by the county clerk, which certif-
cate shall be reduced to writing and entered
by the clerk In the minutes of their proceed
lngs, and shall have the same effect as the
records showing the facts would have had.
Section 8. AS soon as the clerk of the
town or city shall have received the corrected
assessment roll ss herein provided, he shall
proceed and make tax roll for said town or
city in all respects as provided by section one
thousand and seventy eight (1078) of the re-
vised statutes, and upon the receipt Of the
apportionment from the county clerk, carried
out upon said tax roll tho taxes TO be levied
upon the taxable property of said town or
city for said year 1879, as provided by Sec
ton one thousand and seventy nine (l079) of
the revised statutes, except as otherwise here
in provided.
Section 10. The clerk shall complete said
tax roll and deliver the same, with the war
want attached, to the town or city treasurer
within ten days after the receipt by him of
the corrected assessment roll, unless pre-,
vented by failure of said treasurer 10 give his
bond.
Section II. The warrant attached 10 said
tax roll shall be The same as provided by Sec |
ton one thousand and eighty-one (l0Sl) of |
the revised statutes, except that il shall pro- |
vide that the treasurer shall pay to the coun- |
~ treasurer the amount specified for state |
taxes by day named in said warrant, which |
shall be thirty days from date of said war. |
rant.
Section 10 The treasurer shall proceed
10 collect said tax as provided in chapter
forty-nlne (49) of the revised statutes except
rs herein otherwise provided.
Section Is. The treasurer shall post no.
ices rs provided in section one thousand
md eighty-nine (l0S9) of said chapter forty
line i49). except that the taxes are subject
o payment at bis Office at any time prior to
he day named IN said notice, which shall not
,e less than ten days from the time said no.
ices are posted up, and that after that day
le shah proceed to collect the taxes charged
n said roll, and remaining unpaid.
Section H. On the taxes rendered at the
,ffice within the time specified, the treasurer
hall remit three ftths (3-5tn) Of his fees
Section Is. The time for the collection
IF such taxes may be extended as provided in
section one thousand one hundred and eight
,ll0S) OF said chapter for,y-nine (i9), pro.
'ided that the time shall not be extended
oneer than to the first day of April, 1880, by
which time the return of delinquent taxes
shall be made 10 the county treasurer.
Section Is. All Of the provisions Of SAID
chapter forty-nine (49) shall apply TO said
AK eA sept as otherwise herein provided.
Section IL. The taxes not collected shall
De returned TO the county treasurer in the
same manner as other taxes are returned, and
The same proceedings shall therefore be had
IS in case Of other delinquent taxes.
Section IS. This act shall take effect and |
be in force from and after its passage and |
publication.
Approved February 5, 1880.
Published February %, 1881
CHAPTER 2e.
AN ACT tor the protection of passengers on |
railroad cars and conferrino nolice nawars