Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-03-30

be specified, be repaired to the satisfac-
ton of the street commissioner. within
three DAYS thereafter, he will repair the
same at the expense of the property; and
if the same be not in such time repaired,
such commissioner shall so repair, and
the cost shall be returned as delin-
quent tax on such property, and the
same shall be collected as other delin-
quent assessments, as hereinbefore pro-
vided.
HIGHWAY TAXES.
Section "a. The said city shall con-
stitute one road district of the town of
Lancaster, which shall be under the
control of the common council, which
shall possess all the powers and be sub
iect to the liabilities of commissioners of
| highways in the several towns of this
state. The street commissioner shall
| be ex-officio the overseer of highways
| in said district, and shall possess all the
powers, discharge the duties, and be
| subject to the liabilities of an Oyerseer
of highways therein; and no other over
seers of highways shall be elected for
said district The common council
shall, on or before the first Monday in
May in each year, assess the highway
tax in said city for the ensuing year,
and shall assess the same at not less
than one nor more than seven mills on
the dollar valuation of real and personal
property in said city.
Section So. The city clerk shall with
in three days after the passage of an
order or resolution by the common
council, assessing the highway tax in
/ cniA asfX ny Ia : nd flo with fka
clerk of the town of Lancaster Il certiti-
ed copy thereof, and thereupon it shall
be the duty of the said town clerk TO
make out tax list for said city in the
same manner as he is required to make
such list for the other road districts in
said town, except that the amount
thereof shall be as determined by the
common council as certified to him Us
aforesaid, without regard to the amount
determined by the supervisors of said
town for the other road districts there
in; and when such list is completed it
shall be the duty of the supervisors of
said town to annex thereto the usual
warrant, directed to the street com
missioner of the city of Lancaster, and
cause the same to be delivered to the
street commissioner as soon thereafter
as may be, not later than the third Mon
day in May of the same year, and such
taxes shall be expended under the direc-
ton of the common council wherever
upon the streets an highways of said
city, in its opinion, the same shall be
needed, provided, however, that the COM
mon council may by special order, allow
or direct that such portion of the high
way taxes assessed or collected as herein
provided, not exceeding one-third part
thereof, be expended without the limits
of said city, on any public highway
leading therefrom. And of any apprO-
priations made at any annual or special
town meetings in the town of Lancas-
Ter for highways and bridges in said
town, just proportion shall be
expended when necessary upon
the highways and bridges of said
town, situate within said city, and
shall be SO expended under the direction
of the common council of said city, and
the supervisors of said town may from
time to time appropriate reasonable
sum therefrom for the necessary repairs
of highways and bridges within said
city, and cause the same to be paid into
the city treasury to be so expended
under the direction of the common
council.
Section Sc. The common council
shall have power, and it is hereby made
its duty, in each year to levy and assess
upon the taxable property in said city.
such sum of money as taxes as shall be
sufficient to pay and discharge the out
standing debt of the city, if any, and its
expenses for the current year, after APP
plying the money derived from all other
sources to such purposes, and no more;
provided, the tax for city expenses, ex-
elusive of highway taxes and the money
derived from all other sources, shall not
exceed the sum of two thousand dollars
in any one year All resolutions or or
dinances for the purpose Of levying any
tax shall require for their passage an
affirmative vote of two-thirdS of all the
members elect of the common council.
which vote shall be taken by ayes and
nays and entered of record.
Section 81. All taxes levied and
collected in said city for the purpose
mentioned in the last proceeding sec
ton, shall be levied and assessed upon
the same kinds of property, real and
personal, within the corporate limits of
said city, as taxes for town, county, and
state purposes are levied and assessed
Section IS. The common council of
said city shall, on or before the first
Monday of November in each year. by
resolution TO be entered on its records,
Idetermine the amount of such CITY taxes
to be levied and assessed on the taxable
property within the corporate limits of
the city for the current year. and the
I ,nss r.la -l.aIt 1.
the third Monday of the same month of
November in each year, deliver to the
town clerk of the town of Lancaster, in
which said city is situated, certified
copy, under his hand and name, and the
corporate seal of said city, of all resou-
tons of said common council determin-
ing the amount of taxes to be levied and
assessed for the current year, together
with a concise description of all unpaid
certificates of Indebtedness for special
assessments provided for in this act,
which may or shall be on file in his
office at the date of his said certificate.
Said certificate shall contain descrip-
ton of the lots, pieces or parcels of land
chargeable Herewith.
Section SO. The town clerk of the
town in which said city is situated shall
assess, apportion and carry out SAID
city taxes pro rata according to the dol
lar valuation upon all the real and per-
sonal property liable therefor, in col
umn in the tax and assessment roll OF
his town next thereafter issued and de-
livered to the town treasurer of his town
for collection in the same manner as he
shall assess, apportion and carry out
town, county and state taxes, and if for
any reason such city taxes shall not be
assessed, apportioned and carried ont
in said next assessment and tax roll as
herein provided, it shall and NAV be as
sessed, apportioned, carried out and
collected in that of any succeeding year.
The said town clerk shall assess and carry
out, in separate column in the tax and
assessment roll of his town in each year
as aforesaid, all amounts so as aforesaid
returned IN each year by said city clerk
as remaining unpaid for special assess
ments at the date of said certificate of
said city clerk, opposite each lot, tract.
piece or parcel of land properly charge
able Herewith. The said city taxes and
special assessments shall be in all res
poets collected or returned delinquent.
in the same manner as town, county
and state taxes are collected by law,
and when collected shall be paid over by
any officer collecting or receiving the
same to the treasurer of said city. ANY
officer ol- nj her npreon who shall NEGLECT