Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-02-11
NORTHERN TRIBUNE, FEBRUARY II. 1882

all the courts and tribunals to be valid,
and shall not be set aside except for GER
tain specified causes.
Sec. "a Of the new bill provides that
the board of supervisors at its October
session shall hear and consider all OBJ
jectiOns made to raising any tax prOpOs-
ed to be raised for county, township,
road, or school purposes.
The board Is authorized to procure the
correction of any defective statement or
paper showing amounts of taxes prOpOs-
ed to be raised; and may refer such pa
pers to the prosecuting attorney, who
shall report without delay in writing.
Sec. 80 Of the new bill provides that
no extension of time for the collection
of taxes shall be granted by the board of
supervisors. The township board may
extend the time as under the present
law, not exceeding one month.
Sec. 81 provides that the town treas
urer shall make personal demand up
on taxpayers resident in the township,
and either personally or by mail shall
demand payment of such other taxpay-
ers named on his roll as reside in the
county.
Sec. 40 of the new bill provides that
delinquent lands shall be returned to the
auditor general substantially as in the
present method, but that the counties
shall receive credit at the time of such
return for only the amount of state tax
returned delinquent, thus relieving the
state from the burden of carrying the
uncOllected county, town, road, school,
and other local taxes. These are to be
carried by the municipalities within
which fhaV xUara layiQd
Sec. SO requires the Auditor General,
after the first day of July of each year,
60 file in the office of the county clerk
lists Of lands liable to be sold for non
payment of taxes, petition addressed
to the court in chancery stating the
amounts due on the several parcels, and
praying decree against said lands for
payment.
Sec. 55 requires the Auditor General to
publish a copy of said petition, with de-
iinquent list annexed, for three weeks
prior to the time of hearing. Subse-
quent sections provide for details of
proceedings and for full hearing in
court of any person objecting to the sale
Of any of the land so advertised, and for
against which the tax is sustained.
OOuDby tItdSultlS dIc W Un6
sales, and lands not otherwise disposed
of may be struck off to the state, and
confirmation of sales by the court is also
provided for.
The above is the gist of the principal
features OF the new law, without going
into detail.
Accompanying the regular tax bill
are other bills for the repeal of certain
acts imposing specific taxes upon street
railway companies. If these bills are
passed property of such companies will
be placed on the general tax roll.
Another bill also provides that the
special meeting of board of Supervisors
in June of every 9th year, preparatory
to the meeting of the state board of
shall be on the third Mon
day instead of the second as at present.
A bill has also been drafted which pro-
yides for bringing highway taxes on to
the general tax roll, in harmony with
the general tax bill.
1t is generally believed that the tax
commission has ably performed its work.
But it must be remembered that the pro-
posed act will have to run the gauntlet
of the critical eyes of 1872 members of
the legislature, who may leave it in IS
condition as was the man
who unluckily passed through thresh-
ing machine.
The greatest difficulty in legislative
body agreeing on tax bill arises from
the fact that there is no subject on
which members consider themselves so
well informed as that of taxation, and
yet no two of them has the same idea as
to how tax es should be assessed and col
lected.
Five able and honest men have work
ed weeks in perfecting the new bill, and
it may not be OfficiOus to say that the
least cutting and slashing the legisla-
ture can possibly do before passing the
measure the nearer perfect will be the
tax system of Michigan.