Middletown transcript., 1893-05-20

70 peace or any justice of the peace of the
county wherein such collector may reside
The collectors duplic ties for the year A. D.
- 1893 shall not be delivered to the respective
:, collectors of county taxes for the counties
: of Kent and Sussex till they shall have
!. made full settlement with the Levy Court
OF their respective counties for the delin-
quent taxes collected by them respectively
> as hereinbefore provided. And the name
! of every such delinquent taxable who
shall pay his taxes for the year 1892 as
herein provided he may shall be placed on
the assessment list and also on the duplicate
to be issued to the collector of the county
taxes for the year A. D. 1893, by the Levy
Court of his county. Said additions may
be made in the form of supplements to said
asst ssment lists and duplicates. Provided
however. that this act shall apply to poll
taxables only
Section g Any officer who shall ne glect
or refuse to perform any of the duties i'm
posed upon him by this act shall forfeit his
office for the term for which he was ap-
4 pointed or elected.
Section 8. That the act entitled "a sup
plement to an act entitled sAn act in rela
ton to the collection of taxes in Kent and
Sussex countless" passed at Dover March
%, 1898. passed at Dover March 81, 1S93 be
and the same is hereby repealed"
COLLECTIONS BEGUN.
As soon as the new law was passed Clerk
of the Peace William Dickson of Kent
County made out what purported to be
copies of the delinquent list allowed by
the Levy Court, and they were placed in
the hands of the collectors Of the respective
hundreds. These copies were made by Mr..
Dickson's assistant and were II ade on a
type writer They were duly certified by
the clerk Of the peace.
COLLECTORS GET ADVICE.
When The collectors received tile delin-
quent lists they secured the advice OF
Robert H. Vandyke, counsel for the Levy
Court in reference to the collection Of
taxes. 1t is claimed that he advised them
to receive taxes only on the two days pro-
vided for by law and at no other time. Mr. {
Vandyke does not remember having given
such advice to them. !
REPUBLICANS BEGIN WORK.
As soon as the collection of delinquent (
taxes was degun the Republican County {
Committee of Kent County got to work. |
1t saw that every voter in the county whose g
name appeared on the delinquent lists paid q
his tax personally. as required by law. J
Not more than fifty Republicans remain in
Kent County with their taxes unpaid.
While the Republicans watched out for
their own men they also kept record of t
the Democrats who failed to pay their ]
taxes. f
Copies of the delinquent lists in the o
hands of the collectors showed that, accord 4
ing to them, there were yesterday morning "
about ATS Democrats who had failed to pay d
their taxes and who should therefore be s
returned as delinquents. This would make p
it impossible for the ATS Democrats to be a
again placed on the assessment for two Il
years. They have not paid their taxes
within the time speeifed and did not there
fore have a right to be on the assessment
for next year. Ii
REPUBLICANS ON HAND. a
To-day was the time fixed by law for the n
special meeting of the Levy Court to 9
receive the returns of the collectors. The lt
Republican County Committee were present Il
with their counsel, James Pennewill, to see =
that their rights were not roughly trampled u
upon.
1t was evident to all that there was some u
thing new in the wind, for number of the
collectors were instructed to change their
lists so as to make them comply with the
law and nearly all the afternoon was spent n
by them in making the changes What W
those changes were no one knows, but G
during the afternoon an important discovery OF
of Democratic jugglery was discovered by NJ
some of the Republicans.
LISTS ARE NOT THE SAME. h'
The discovery was made on Milford hun. &C
dred Some of the Republicans were casu- be
ally comparing the assessment lists on
which the delinquents are marked, with
the lists furnished the collector by the clerk
Of the peace. The lists were not the same. de
On the assessment were entered thirty th
two Republicans and one Democratic delin- m
luent. On tle collectors certified list tn
were fiftyfour Republicans and twenty-one re
Democrats. The Republicans supposing hi
that the collectors lists were correct paid st
sixty-eight taxes for supposed deIinquents, as
and the Democrats getting frightened be-
cause they were watched so closely by the
Republicans that they paid the taxes of
fifteen of their men. di
When the differences in the lists were dis N
covered one of those present went to the W
member of the Levy Court from Milford fr
hundred, Mr.. Beswick, and asked him to III
explain. He said that the assessment list ar
was the correct one and the one made BY NJ
The Levy Court. He further said he had
made the delinquent list according to "his
own personal knowledge"
1t therefore came out that the lists given Gs
he collectors were not correct lists. to
Clerk Of the Peace Dickson, when spoken in
o concerning the matter, said that tile lists at
,iven to him by the collectors included ex
'rrors and all unpaid taxes, and that he in
considered they were all included in delin-
Iuents. The lists, however, are not the
mes passed upon by the court, and Mr..
'eswick speaking of the Milford list said ha
hat the one in the hand of the collector had he
lever been allowed by the Levy Court as a an
delinquent list. Pr
ANOTHER POINT BROUGHT OUT. vi
The fact that the lists in the hands of the Col
ollectols were not approved by the Levy
'ourt as delinquent lists brings out another
point. The delinquent lists !
fere accepted by the Levy Court on N March pa
and later copies ordered placed in the str
ands of the collectors. In the meantime sio
he names on the delinquent lists had been pie