The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-17
AN ORDINANCE
In Relation TO Poll Tax

SECTION BE 10 ordained by the
City Council of SAT- Lake City, That
every able-bodied man over twenty
one end under sixty years OF age,
resident within the corporate limits o!
said city, shall be required to pay
annually Road Poll Tax of two days
work of eigbt.hours each day, or one
aud half dollars per day in lawful
money, in lieu theresi, under the
direction of the supervisor of streets;
said labor to be applied, fret, 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 diIigent search and enquiry
TO ascertain and list the names OF all
persons within the corporate limits OF
said city liable to pay pol tax, as
provided in Section one OF this ordi-
nance, and shall return the names OF
all such persons with the number OF
the Municipal Ward in which they
reside, or do business, 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
cate of payment. The collector is
hereby authorized to receive cash in
payment of poll tax at his Office,
from any person rendering the same.
He shall keep a suitable stub receipt
book for poll tax collections and shall
deliver a receipt to each person
making payment TO him, entering all
the facts contained in such receipts
on the stub thereof.
SEC. 8. On application of the
Supervisor Of Streets, it shall be the
duty ofthe Assessor and Collector to
furnish him a 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
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
ro!i6ed as provided in section three,
or refusing to perform
such labor at the time and |
place designated in said notice,
shall be required to pay such |
tax in money, and the Super
visor, as such, is hereby author.
lied to sue and collect the same as an |
action If debt, and no property shall |
be exempt from execution on judg- !
ment go recovered, in any court hsv-
ing Jurisdiction.
SEC. 5.-The Supervisor sha keep |
a stub receipt book, and shall receipt |
therefrOm to each person making |
payment of poll tax, 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.
SIC. 6.-The Assessor and Collector J
shall on or before the first Mon |
DAY in January. April, July and |
October in each year, pay over
all moneys, and account for all labor |
performed on poll tax, to the city |
treasurer, az 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 San Act pertaining to
Highways" passed February 20lh,
1880.
Passed April 18th, a. D. 1880.
FERAMORZ LITTLE,
Mayer.
JOHN T. GAME,
Recorder.