The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-04
ORDINANCES.

(PubnShed as informatton.)
Ordinance read in council for the first
time Jan. !, 1885, and by unanimous con-
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 to be made, and the manner
and prescribing penalties for failure to
comply with the requirements hereof, ana
for other purposes connected herewith.
Section /. Be it 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
10th day of December, 1895, and entitled
IAN act to create and organize a board
of tax assessors and receivers for the city
duties, to provide clerk for said board.
to provide for the compensation of said
tax assessors and receivers, and said clerk
and Tor other purposes shall, Immediate
ly upon their qualification, organize, and
snail at once proceed to carry out the
duties 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 in section
two of the said act, and shall each of
them give a bond in the penal sum of
three thousand dollars ($3, 000), payable to
the mayor and aldermen of the city OF
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. Q Be it further ordained, That
each of said tax assessors and receivers
shall receive as his compensation the
sum of twelve hundred ($1,20O) 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
of six hundred $500 dollars per annun.
payable in equal monthly installments
out of the treasury of the said city of Sa-
vannah, in addition to his said compensa-
ton or salary as such tax assessor and
receiver.
Sec. g. Be is further ordained. That
the said tax assessors and receivers shall
have an office in the City Exchange. or
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
it shall be the duty Of the said tax as
SCISSORS and receivers other than the clerk
of the board to be and remain at their
said office every day, Sundays and holt.
days excepted, between the hours of n
m. and p. M, except when their official
duties as said tax assessors and receivers
shall require their presence elsewhere but
the clerk of the said board is hereby re-
quired to be at the said Office every dav
Sundays and holidays excepted. from
a. m. to p. m. and from p. m. to 6 D. 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 a trne
and correct record of the proceedings Of
the said board which shall ALWAYS he
subject to the inspection of the mayor or
any alderman Of the said city, and shall
perform such ether 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 hoard
or with any ordinance Of the city Of Sa-