Evening journal., 1893-02-09
THE FIVE COMMISSIONERS BILL.
The Important Changes to be Made In the
Complement of City Ohicers.
star Corraspond danca Evapfne, To,rna1

Complement of City Ohicers.
staff Correspondence Evening Journal.
DOVER, Feb. g. - Representative |
Spruance will introduce bill which, |
while 1t makes several important changes
in the Five Commissioners bill, particu- |
larly in regard to the Office Of receiver Of
taxes and county treasurer, has a sting
in it for the daily newspapers.
Section Z Of the act passed by the last
Legislature is amended as follows:
II strikes out that part of the section
which compels the receiver to sit at the
voting place of the hundred and allows
him to sit in the place which he considers
most convenient.
1t strikes out the provision which en-
powers him. while sitting in one hundred,
TO receive taxes due in an adjoining hun
dred.
1t changes the hours Of his sittings in
the Wilmington Office from 2 TO 8 and z
to s p. m, to 10 a. m. to l2 M, and
from to p. m.
1t strikes out the last paragraph of
Section Z which is as follows:
I'm case the receiver Of taxes shall
fail to attend either in person OF by
deputy at his Office in Wilmington and
at the times herein appointed for his at
tend ance in Wilmington, or in the hun
dreds in New Castle county, inclusive of
Wilmington and at the times to be ap.
pointed by him for his attendance in
such hundreds, he shall, unless such
failure to attend be shown to be un
avoidable and not owing to negligence
forfeit and pay to any person who may
have called at such time for the purpose
of paying his taxes, and did not find the
said receiver or his deputy in attendance
to receive the same the sum of $40, to
be recovered before justice of the peace
In New Castle county
Amend Section s by striking out
THAT on all tax paid before the first day
Of September there shall be an abate
meet of per cent. on all paid before
the first day Of November, there shall be
an abatement of per cent. on all taxes
unpaid on the first day of December, 3
per cent. thereof shall be added thereto.
and if unpaid on the first day of January
next ensuing" and inserts in lieu
thereof the following:
THAT on all taxes paid before the first
day Of October there shall be an abate-
ment of per cent on all taxes paid
before the first day of December there
shall be an abatement of per cent. on
all taxes unpaid on the first day of Janu-
airy next ensuing, per cent. shall be
added thereto, and If unpaid on the first
day of February, per cent. shall be
added thereto, and on the first day Of
January"
Amend section 10 by striking out the
sentence ''any orders issued by road com.
missioners for the payment of labor on,
or for material furnished for the roads,
shall be accepted by the receiver Ct taxes
in payment of road taxes
Amend section 20 by inserting the
following after the provision that the
receiver of taxes shall receive $4,000
salary, the clause with the additional
annual allowance to him of 81, 500 fo1
the purposa.of paying clerks and as
aistants, and provides for the monthly
payment of the salaries
II strikes out the provision in section
2l. that the finding of the auditors OF
the accounts of the receiver of taxes
and county comptroller shall "be pub
lished once each week for three weeks
IN two of the daily newspapers o
the city Of Wilmington at thu
expense of the county and the sale
committee shall receive as com
pensation for their services the sun
Of 50 for each day in which he shal
be actually engaged in such duty" ant
inserts in lieu thereof that the reports
of the receiver of taxes and count,
treasurer shall be certified to by thu
auditors and that the auditors shal
not be authorized to have publishe,
their finding It provides that the mem
bers of the committee on audit shall re
ceive as compensation for their servi
ces the sum of $50 each"
The following sections are added:
"The clerk of the peace in and for New
Castle county is authorized and directe
to systematic and harmonize the count
tax books with the mode pursued il
keeping the tax books of the city O
Wilmington.
"That the clerk of the peace in and 70
New Castle county be and he is hereb
authorized and directed to make lists q
/ the poll taxables for the said county an
, the receiver of taxes and county trea,
urer is authorized to appoint poll Ia
collectors when in his Judgment he ma
deem it necessary to facilitate the colle'
tion of taxes
''The recorder Of deeds shall rendt
monthly reports of the county transfer
! of real estate to the receiver of taxes, n
. ceiving in compensation for his service
an amount to be fixed and paid by IL
county commissioners.