The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-02-24
PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES.

All Personal Property Taxes Must b.
Paid I'm Full Within 80 Days.
County Treasurer August Void ha!
sent to every personal property tax
payer in San Juan county the follow
ing unwelcome missive, which will
leave nothing but sorrow and dispair In
its wake:
Office of County Treasurer,
San Juan County, Wash.
FRIDAY HARBOR, Feb. 81, 1893.
Dear Sir: You are hereby notified
that you are charged with Personal
Property Taxes for the year 1897 in the
sum of 5. and if same are
not paid within 80 days from the date
of this notice, the Treasurer will pro-
coed to collect by destraint and sale OF
property as per Sec. II of new revenue
law enacted March Is, 1897.
Explanatory of said law beg to say
paid in installments, but are payable in
Full Immediately after tax rolls are
open, viz: first Monday in February of
each year, thirty days notice being
given.
The terms governing payment Of
Real Estate Taxes should not be con-
fused with those governing Personal
Property Taxes, as under the new law
they are entirely different.
The unusually large number Of
charges for Personal Property Taxes,
and the consequent labor necessary in
its collection under the new method,
the Treasurer respectfully asks the as
of the taxpayers by kindly CIV
ing this notice due attention. and if
any error in said tax, to take proper
steps for its correction.
Yours respectfully,
AUGUST void,
County Treasurer.
For the benefit of those who are not
familiar with the laws enacted by the
last legislature governing the collection
Of Personal Property Taxes we quote
the following:
"Section II, Session Laws of 1897:
On and after the first Monday of Feb
ruary succeeding the levy of taxes, the
county treasurer shall proceed to levy
all personal property taxes, and if such
taxes are not paid on thirty days. no
tice, unless secured by real estate dis
train, sufficient goods and chattels be-
longing to the person charged with
such taxes, If found within the county,
to pay the same with interest, together
with all accruing costs, and shall i'm
proceed to advertise the same
by posting written notices in three pub
lie places in the county in which such
property has been levied upon, stating
the time when and the place where
such property will be sold. and if taxes
for which said property is distrained
and the costs which accrue thereon are
not paid before the day appointed for
such sale, which should be not less than
ten days after the taking of such prop
erty, such treasurers shall proceed to
sell such property at public auction, or
so much thereof as Will be sufficient to
pay such taxes, interest and costs, and
if there be any overplus of money aris-
ing from the sale Of any personal prop.
erty, the treasurer shall Immediately
pay any such overplus to the owner Of
the property SO sold, or to his legal rep
provided, that if any per-
sonal property on which taxes have
been levied, but not paid, is about to be
from the county where the
same has been assessed. the county
treasurer may demand without the no.
tice provided for in this section, and if
necessary may distrain and sell suffi-
cient goods and cliattels to pay the
same; provided further, that the tax
levied for the year 1895 on personal
property may be paid in two INSTALL
ments according to the provisions of
the law in force at the time of the levy
Of such taxes, and If not so paid shall
be collected Immediately after delin-
quency according to the provisions of
this act"