The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09


the valuation of the property appearing up
on the assessment roll of said several assess
ing districts, for the previous year, as equal
lied by the Board Of Supervisors OF
Shawassee County for the previous year,
ard also to notify the Common Council of
the amount SO alportiOned to their respective
assessing districts, within five days there
after. And it is hereby made the duty of
the Mayor of said city TO levy the sum so
apportioned and such other taxes as NAV be
required by law or by the provisions of this
charter, to be levied in the month of June
of each year, upon the taxable property of
said assessing district of said city. in the
same manner as taxes for township pur-
poses are required by law to be levied by
the Supervisors of the townships CT this
State
Sec. 81. The taxes so levied for city pur-
poses shall be and remain lien upon the
property on which the same is levied from
the first day In July in each year, i'm the
same cases and to the same extent, and i'm
like manner as taxes required by law to be
levied on property in the several townships
of this State are liens upon such property;
and In case said taxes, interest and charges
as provided in section 1862 of this charter
are not paid on or before the first day of
January in each year, then all provisions of
the law respecting the collection return and
sale OF property for the non-payment of
taxes for state, county and township pur-
poses, shall apply to the return and sale of
property for nOn-payment of city taxes and
the highway taxes hereinafter provided for:
PrOUtded, That all taxes levied upon per-
sonal property in said city for contingent
and highway purposes shall be subject to
levy and sale to satisfy such taxes at any
time after the first day of August in each
year, and all provisions of law for the levy.
sale and collection of taxes on personal
property for state, county and township pur-
poses shall apply to the levy, sale and col
lection OF personal property insaid city for
such city and highway taxes.
Sec. 100. Upon the day designated in said
resolution, or on some other day to be ap-
pointed by the court, and ON filing COPY of
said resolution and an affidavit showing the
required publication thereof, the marshal
shall attend said court and write down a
list of the names of twenty-four inhabitants
OF said city, qualified to sit as jurors in
courts of record in this state, who shall be
approved by the court, as disinterested resi-
dents of said city, and qualified to serve as
such jurors.
Sec. 150. The common council shall i'm
the month of June in each year make out
from the assessment rolls in said city sep
arate list and statement of the value of all
taxable personal property and description
of all lots or parcels of land within each
highway district in said city, inserting i'm a
separate part of said list descriptions of
lands and tenements owned by non-resdents
of the city, with the value of. each lot or
parcel set opposite to such description as the
same shall appear on the assessment roll,
and If such lot or tract was not separately
described i'm such roll, then i'm proportion to
the valuation which shall have been fixed
to the whole tract of which such lot or par
Gel form part, and the said roll upon
which shall be spread the contingent and
highway taxes Of said city to be collected.
Sec. 1862. Whenever the said tax list
shall have been delivered to the treasurer
with the warrant of the mayor annexed for
collection, he shall give like notice, and pro-
coed in like manner, as near as may be, to
collect said tax, as hereinbetore provided, for
the collection of the ordinary taxes of said
city, and the sum of one per cent shall be
added by the collector to each item of tax so
levied for his fees, to be paid to the collector
with the contingent and other tax required
to be paid in the month of July in each
year; and in case any tax or part of such tax
shall not be paid in the month of July, for
the year said tax roll Is so made, then four
per cent shall be added by such collector for
his fees for collecting such tax, to be paid
to him with the other taxes; and interest at
the rate of ten per cent per annum shall also
be added and collected by said treasurer, Oh
all taxes not paid i'm the month of July, I'M
til the same is paid OF collected, or when the
same is a tax on land interest at the rate of
ten per cent per annum shall be added until
paid OF the land returned to the county
treasurer.
Sec. 1863. When such taxes are collected
the treasurer shall enter to the credit of the
contingent fund and the general highway
fund the several amounts SO paid i'm q book
to be kept by him for that purpose, as the
same shall belong to such respective funds.
Sec. 1854. The moneys socOllected and paid
into the treasury for contingent purposes
shall constitute the contingent fund and the
monyes so paid in for highway purposes shall
constitute the highway fund, and such high
way fund shall be applied as follows:
FIRST, The marshal, street commissioner
or the street inspectors of the several ward
districts, under the general supervision of
the marshal, OF street commissioner, as the
council shall direct, shall at all times keep
the streets, bridges, culverts or drains allot-
ted to them TO oversee, in thorough repair
and free from obstructions;they shall report
on oath to the common council, once in each
month, which report shall contain an accu-
rate statement of the amount of labor per-
formed and the expense incurred, and their
charges for the same;
Second, The common council shall eX-
anime such report, and if satisfied of its cor
rectness and that the charges therein made
are just and reasonable, they shall accept it
and order it fled; but if they are satisfied
that tits incorrect, or that charges therein
are unreasonable, they shall alter the same
as they they think proper, and allow such
charges as they shall deem just and equita-
bic; they shall then let said report lie upon
the table one week and if not withdrawn by
filing notice in writing to that effect with
the city clerk, in that time, they shall accept
it and order it filed as corrected by them;
Third, When any such report is filed
the mayor shall draw an order on the high
way fund to the amount of such charge in
said report, payable to said Inspector, street
commissioner or marshal, as the case may
be, which order shall be countersigned by
the auditor and on presentment the city
treasurer shall pay the same, If there be
money in the treasury belonging to such