The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-02
ORDINANCE.
(Publlshed AS information.l

Ordinance read in council for the first
| time Jan. !, 1886, and by unanimous cons
sent read second time and laid on the
| table.
BY Committee on Finance
An ordinance touching the board of tax
| assessors and receivers for the city of
| Savannah, the compensation or salary Of
| the members thereof. and of their clerk
| their bonds, duties and powers, requiring
| tax returns 10 be made, and the manner
| and prescribing penalties for failure to
! comply with the requirements hereof ana
| for other purposes connected. herewith.
Section l. Be IL ordained by, the mayor
and aldermen of the city of Savannah IN
| council assembled, That the board of tax
| assessors and receivers for the city OF
! Savannah, provided for by an act of the
| legislature of Georgia, approved on the
| 10th day of December 1895, and entitled
! An act to create and organize a board
/ or tax assessors and receivers for the city
bof Savannah. to define its powers and
/ duties, to provide a clerk for said board
! to provide for the compensation of said
! tax assessors and receivers, and said clerk
/ ana for other purposes" shall. Immediate
| ly upon their qualification, organize, and
shall at once proceed 70 carry out the
| dutiess imposed upon them by the said
| act and the ordinances of the city of Sa-
vannah in pursuance thereof. They shall
| take and subscribe before the mayor of the
! the city the oath provided for I'm section
| two of the said act, and shall each OF
| them give a bond in the penal sum of
the mayot End aidefinehi 6f the hey CITY CITY, 81
| Savannah, conditioned for the faithful
| performance and discharge of all of his
| duties as said tax assessor and receiver,
and, in addition to this the bond of the
clerk of said. bond shall be conditioned
| for the faithful performance and dis
! charge of all of his duties, not only as said
| tax assessor and receiver, but also as
| the said clerk.
Sec. 2. Be it. further ordained. That
! each of said tax assessors and receivers
shall receive as his compensation the
| sum of twelve hundred (S1,200) dollars
per annum, payable in equal monthly in
! stallments out of the treasury of the
city of Savannah, and, in addition to this
| compensation, the tax assessor and re-
! ceiver serving as the clerk of the said
| board, shall receive, as such clerk, the sum
! of six hundred $500 dollars per annum,
! payable in equal monthly . installments,
| out of the treasury of the said city of Sa-
vannah in addition to his said eompensa-
ton or salary as such tax assessor and
| receiver.
Sec. B. Be is further ordained. That
the said tax assessors and receivers shall
| at such other place as the mayor of the
/ city of Savannah shall designate, of which
notice shall be given to the tax payers
and citizens of the city of Savannah and
| 1T shall be the duty of the said tax as
| SCISSORS and receivers other than the clerk
of the board to be and repaln at their
| said Office every day, Sundays and holi-
| days excepted, between the hours of D.
| m. and 6 p. M, except when their official
duties as said tax assessors and receivers
| shall require their presence elsewhere but
| the clerk of the said hoard is hereby re-
| CURED to be at the said office every day,
| Sundays and holidays excepted, from 8
a. m. to p. M. and from p. m. to 6 p. m,
| except when his absence from the said Of
! flee is required by his official duties
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained That
| the clerk of said board shall keep q true
| and correct record of the. proceedings of
! the said board, which shall always be
subject to the inspection, of the mayor or
| any alderman of the said city, and shall
| perform such other duties as may here
| after be imposed upon him by ordinance,
| or by the, rules and regulations Of the
| said board not inconsistent with the act
! of the Legislature creating the said board
or with any ordinance efrthe city of SA-
| vannah
| Sec. 5. Be it further 70 ordained, That
| in addition to the powers and duties con-
| ferred upon them by section three of the
! said act of the legislature of Georgia, the
| said tax assessors and receivers shall also
| the following duties. to-wit:
| (a). They shall require all returns of
! personal property subject to taxation, 10
be made before them at their Office, in
the city of Savannah, upon such form or
| forms as they may prescribe or approve
| Of by the first day Of February of each
| year, and the following oath or atfirma-
ton shall be administered to each and
every person making returns for taxa
OF tax assessors and receivers, to-wit:
You do solemnly swear Tor affirm that
the returns which you are about to make
| shall be just and true statement of all
personal property of every kind. which
| you held or owned on the first day Of
| January inserting here the year, or were
| interested in, either in your own right
or the right of any person or persons
| whomsoeVer, either as a parent, guardian
| executor administrator, agent or trus-
| tee, or in any other manner whatsoever
to the best of your knowledge, Informal
ton and belief You do further swear
that you will truly, correctly and fully
answer all questions asked you by the
| tax assessors and receivers in reference
to said return, and that you have not
| conveyed or assigned to others or rernov-
ed out of the city of Savannah any prop
| erty whatsoever, TO avoid returning the
| same for taxation"
| The said board Of tax assessors and
receivers shah keep the tax books open
and ready for returns until the time spec
! ified above and of which fun notice shall
| be given to the tax payers, by publica-
| ton in the official organ of said city and
| by such other means as the said board
may adopt.
| 1t shall be the duty of said. board of tax
assessors and receivers to have prepared
| suitable books for the purpose Of receiv-
| ing returns as provided herein
(b). If any person fails, neglects or re-
| fuses to make a return of his or her per-
| sonal property within the time adopted
1 or to truly answer such questions as NAV
| be asked, or to submit his personal prop
erty for the inspection and valnation of
| said tax assessors and receivers or to
/ furnish such data and information as
may be called for by them, then IT shall
| be the duty Of the said tax assessors and
| receivers, Jointly, from the best i4sor-