The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

! can be made as easily on one day as an
/ other. There is one thing II does do,
/ and that is IL cuts off what is known az
/ the perquisites. Let me illustrate. Every
account that is kept by the treasurer Is
kept by the county clerk. The clerk IN
the future in this county viii keep the
condemnation account. II will not be
kept as a separate account in the bark
and the interest on that fund go to the
county treasurer in place OF the county,
where IL belongr No treasurer is 50
careful but at times. in making tax re-
ceipts. he will occasionally miss mark
/ ing the roll. later on the party viii ap-
pear when he finds his property sold for
taxes either to the county or an individ-
ual. ani produce his receipt and the
board issues what you call here GER
tifcate OF error - refund. In oTder 10
make ,his plain let me Illustrate. joan
Brown pays his tax to the county treas
urer on a receipt, the Treasurer or clerE
onits marking the r0ll. At the end u
the year this property shows not paid.
II is sold. II sold to the county, the
treasurer takes credit FOR IL as uncoi-
lected tax. II sold to an individual he
gets the money. thus get;in gthe tax on
this property twice. When the owner
finds mis- property sold for taxes, ne
brings in his receipt. the certificate -
error is issued to refund. and the amount
is paid back and charged 70 this fund.
This should not be done. The treasurer
under your old tax roll check only sc-
counts for II once and he has the money
and not the county % pay back. Under
the system you have adopted. the coun-
ty clerk charges the amount wnen the
tax receipt fs counterSignei he charges
the amount 10 t1e treasurer. and, when
the property is .old, n 20 IN individual.
he charges the sale. then when the tax
receipt is brought. the certificate OF error
can be properly Issued for the county
has the money ana not the treasurer. II
sold to the county. there - no certificate
10 issue All th.t viii have 20 be done.
il to cancel the sale % the county on the
delinquent record. a gentleman said q
me the other day when he saw me max
ing up the Tax Receipt COuniersignei
Record" you wiz never make ths
county officers here keep that up" I 10
not make 1he officers keep Up anything.
As said before. ny system t. the iaw
adapted 70 simple mode of Bookkeeping.
In the first oiace. let me -ay 70 yo1
frankly. In my work here have s1a1 oc-
casion % observe yoIr present clerk en1
treasurer ana I believe they win Do
everything IN their power and TIA; al
things viii 5e kept jus; az they Law rays.
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bands. Let me- quote ne statute % yea
on this one point TIE law = 1855 er-
ceptei tax receipts ss 20 being counter (
signed oy the county clerk TIE AZ Z
1875. chapter IS. section 8. Tes9. ~ IL 4
ioHz. al TAX receipt. s1all BE- counter 4
s.zaed 5y the clerk before J1e same sFe T
delivered = ne pe-z31 entitled - ta@ 1
same and me clerk t1aL charge re I
amount thereof % the tr@ssBrer~ Sec i
ton 9 of TIE SANE fs1 ,-s5s. ~ any
suca treasurer q clerk sasI ziIsaliy d. 4
rsza-4 any % tse p-ovisions . <hia at. 4
ae ssau upon c51yiction taereof Be al 4
5sazes Esl9ty Of q -si.seanezaor ard b. /
Hrss IN any sisul Mt exceeding sve hsa-
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