The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-01-27
Mr. WILLIAMS BILL.
K GIVES THREE COMMISSIONERS
AND THREE AUDITORS.


the plnee OF the Five County Commits
6ioner bill:
Section abolishes the Levy Court
Oh the 3lst day of March, 1921.
Section 3 divides New Castle county
into three districts, Wilmington TO be
Creek. White Clay Creek and Pencader
to he a second. and New Castle, Red
Lion, st. Georges, Appoquinimink
and Blackbird to be the third.
Section provides that Mt the elcc-
tion In 1892 three commissioners shall
be elected TO hold Office for three, no
voter voting for more than two. Each
district Is TO have a commissioner but
the voters of tho whole county are to
vote for them. The commissioners
are TO be frcehelders. The Governor
ers are to appoint a clerk and they are
to have the same power and jurisdic-
tion that the Levy Court now has.
Section provides for the election of
three auditors, elected in the same
manner MS the commissioners.
Section provides that the Governor
shall ON the - of March appoint three
commissioners and three auditors, TO
hold their offices from the lst day OF
April, 1891, until the Slst OF December,
1892.
Section provides that the commits
sionefs, upon their organization, shall
choose person for receiver OF taxes
and county treasurer, who shall serve
from the lst day of April, 1891 to the 3lst
day of December, 1892.
Section provides that the receiver
of taxes aud county treasurer shall be
elected in the election In 1892 and hold
his Office two years.
Section 4 enjoins IL upon the com
mlssioners to prepare duplicates of
taxes as settled by the Levy Court OF
1891, and every succeeding year there
after, and present them to the receiver
OF taxes or before the LIST day Of -
The receiver Is to have book of
receipts which shall show the amount
of the assessment, distinguishing real,
personal and poll assessments, and
showing the rates of county, poor and
road taxes, and tho discount or inter
est. as the case may be, on tho pay
ments, etch receipt shall have a CORES
ponding stub. He is To have his Office
In Wilmington and shall also attend
once, either IN person or hy deputy, in
each of the months
AT the voting place in each hum
dred. exclusive of Wilmington, for the
receipt Of taxes, due in such hundred or
any adjoining hundred. The receiver
canaecelVe taxes from anybody in the
county at his Office in Wilmington.
He Is to give proper notice in two
newspapers of the time and places
where he will receive taxes in the hum
dreds, exclusive of Wilmington. His
ollice hours in Wilmington shall be
from y u. M. TO 4 p. IN. and once in
each week from p. III. to p. M, and
in the hundreds exclusive of VIII
mington he shall attend at least for
five hours on every appointed day.
Section Q provides that on all taxes
paid before the 1st day Of
there shall be discount of per cent;
on all paid before the LIST day of
.-------tlpre shall be discount. of 4
per cent; and on all paid before the lst
day OF ----there shall be dis,
count Of 8 per cent; all taxes unpaid at
the lat day of Defender shall bear
interest from the LIST day Oh,
and If unpaid on the 1st day of JanI-
AIRY following, shall then be placed in
tho hands of collectors delinquent
taxes, who shall be appointed by the
county commissioners, and who shall
have all the powers now conferred by
law upon collectors Of county taxes,
and who shall give bonds In double the
amount of taxes placed in their hands;
such bondsand sureties to be in form
prescribed and approved by said COM
missioners.
The delinquent taxes of more than
one hundred may be, IN the discretion
OF the said commissioners, placed
in the hands of one collector Every
such collector shall on the first day OF
March in every year publish in IL news
paper printed in the hundred OF which
he Is collector or in an adjoining hum
dred, OF in case there he none SUCH
then In a newspaper printed in tho city
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unpaid In his hands for collection, and
at the same time and manner give ten
days notice that he will attond at cer-
tain seasonable times and places In his
hundred or district to receive such
taxes. Such notice, and the notices
hereinbefore required to be given by
the receiver of taxes shall be deemed
and taken to meet all the requirements
Of the net of Assembly passed at
Dover April 10th, 1873, ''ln relation to
the collection of taxes in this State
Such collectors shall settle with the
commissioners and auditors immedi-
ately after the 25th day OF March and
at once pay all moneys received as
Aforesaid to the county treasurer, who
&hall give duplicate receipts for the
same one of which shall be filed by
the commissioners. The collectors
shall be entitled to 10 per cent. com
mission on the amount of taxes col
lActed
Section 10 provides that the Trus.
tees of the Poor shall on or before the
1st day of March 1899, certify to the
Commissioner how much money they
need.
Section II provides that the road
Commissioners Of the several hundreds
shall on or before the first day OF June,
1891 and every year thereafter certify
to the receiver OF taxes the amount of
taxes levied for road purposes and au-
thoriZe the receiver to collect the same
with due credits for labor and mate.
rial furnished.
Section ~ authorizes the Commits.
sloners to fix the rate of taxes for the
County, md for the Trustees OF the
Poor il the Levy Court has not already
done SO prior to May LIST, 1891.
Section IL requires that on the first
day of April general transfer of all
the county's business shall be made
TO the County Commissioners.
Section Ia makes the Farmers bank
the bank of deposit, and all taxes col
> lected are to he deposited not less
than twice week.
Section Is provides for the Auditors
to monthly audit the accounts OF tnt
Commissioners, the receiver of taxes
and county treasurer and shall com,
pare the tax duplicate of the receiver
with his accounts as treasurer, and
verify his bank account. Every three
months they are to publish in two
newspapers an account of all monies
fapaiyad and diahupaa1 frha road aap,