The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-18
AN ORDINANCE
In Relation TO Poll Tax.

SECTION 1.-Bs IL ordained by til
City Council of Salt Lake City, Ths
every able-bodied man over twenty
one and under sixty years OF age,
resident within the corporate limits oil
said city, shall be required to pay
annually Road Poll Tax of two days
work of eight'hours each day, or one
and half dollars per day in lawful
money. in lieu thereof, under the
direction of the supervisor of streets;
said labor to be applied, first, upon
the Territorial and County Roads
running through said city; second,
upon any of the streets or alleys
within the corporate limits Of said
city.
SEC. 2.-It shall be the duty of the
street supervisor of Salt Lake
City, at any time between the
First day OF January and the
Thirtieth day of November in each
year, by dHigent search and enquiry
TO ascertain and list the names OF all
persons within the corporate limits OF
said city liable to pay poll tax, as
provided il Section one OF this ordi-
nance, and shsll return the names OF
all such pereons with the number of
the Municipal Ward in which they
reside, or do buainess, to the Assessor
and Collector of said city, whose duty
it shall be to provide suitable books
and enter therein the names presented
by the supervisor in Municipal Wards
and in alphabetical order, with suit
able columns opposite each name, to
enter the kind of pay received, and |
date of payment. The collector is
hereby authorized to receive cash in
of poll tax at his Office,
from any person rendering the same.
He shall keep suitable stub receipt |
beck for poll tax collections and shall |
deliver a receipt to each person
payment to him, entering ell
the facts contained in such receipt |
on the stub thereof.
SEC. 8. On application of the
OF Streets, it shall be the
duty Of the Assessor and Collector to
furnish him list of all the names
entered upon the poll tax book; and,
on receipt of said list, it shall be the
duty of said Supervisor, at any time
between the First day of January and
the Thirtieth day of November in
each year to deliver to each person
liable to pay poll tax, or leave at his
residence, or usual place Of business,
a written or printed notice. citing
him to appear at such time and
place as may be designated in said
notice, with appropriate tools for the
kind of work to be performed, giving
each person not less than three days
notice of such requirement. The
is authorized to negotiate
on equitable terms for team labor
when necessary.
SEC. Amy person, after being
notified as provided in section three,
or refusing 10 perform
such labor at the time and
place designated in said notice,
shall be required to pay such
tax il money, and the Super
visor, IS such, is hereby author
lied to sue and collect the same as an
action cf debt, and no property shall
be exempt from execution on iudg-
nent 60 recovered, in any court hav-
ing jurisdiction.
SIC. 5.-The Supervisor shs keep
a stub receipt book, and shall receipt
therefrom to each person making
payment Of poll tex, whether in cash
or labor, entering all the facts con
tanned in such receipt on the stub
thereof; said receipt book and stubs
shall be returned to the Assessor and
Collector, together with all moneys
collected on or before the last Mon
day in March. June. September and
December in each year.
SEC. 6.-The Assessor and Collector
shall on or before the first Mon
day in January, April, July and
October in each year, pay over
ali moneys, and account for all labor
performed on poll tax, to the city
treasurer, as may appear from the
quarterly returns; and
the city treasurer shall pay quarterly
to the county court of Salt Lake
County, one-iourth OF all the poll tax
collected, in pursuance of section
fourteen Of an act of the Legislative
Assembly of the Territory of Utah,
entitled IAN Act pertaining to
Highways" passed February 20lh,
1880.
Passed April 18th. A. D. 1880.
FERAMORZ LITTLE,
Mayer.