Douglas Island news., 1902-07-02

DELIVERED.
 SEC. 6. The Assessor shall complete his as- sessment books by the first Monday Iin Au- gust and shall deliver the same to the City Council, taking the City Clerks receipt therefor; said assessment books shall be Ver- fled by affidavit subscribed thereto, that the ment of the taxable property of the City of Douglas to the best of his knowledge and belief.
 AMOUNT OF LEVY FOR TAXATION.
 SEC, '. The assessment shall be one-half of one per cent. on all the property assessed for the year 1902, and each year thereafter the Council shall declare the per cent. of taxes on the property valuation of the year pre- ceding, but said property shall be duly as sesSed each year by the Assessor
 EQUALIZATION BOARD.
 SEC. s. The second Saturday after the As sessor shall have made his return to the Council the Council shall sit as Board of Equalization, at which time all persons hay ing complaints regarding their assessment shall appear with said complaints duly Yerl- fled and present the same for consideration; and when said equalization shall have been made by the Council the same shall be ac- cepted us the assessed valuation subject to an appeal to the District Court.
 COUNCIL MAY CORRECT ASSESSMENT.
 SEC. g. The Council shall give one weeks notice of the meeting of the Board of Equal ization, by publication in newspaper pub, lished in the City of Douglas, and the Board may, after giving one weeks notice Tn q newspaper published in the City, or by a written notice personally served upon the parties interested, increase or lower any as- sessment contained in the assessment books, so us to eQuali8e the assessment or property in said books, and make the assessment con form to the true value of such property in money.
 POWERS OF BOARD OF EQUALIZATION AND METHOD OF APPLICATION FOR REDUCTION.
 SEC. 10. Before the Board grants the ap- plication for any reduction applied for, the person or agent making the application shall be examined on oath touching the value of property of such person or agent. No reduc- tion shall be made unless such person or agent attends in person and answers all questions pertinent to the inquiry; and for the purposes of such examination the mem berS of the Board of Equalization are em- sion the Board may direct the Assessor to assess any taxable property that may have been overlooked by him, or add to the amount, number or quantity of property when an incomplete or false list has been rendered, and may make and enter new as sessmentS cauceling previous entries when any assessment made by him Is deemed by the Board so incomplete as to render doubt- full the collection of the tax. But the Clerk shall notify all persons interested by letter addressed to the persons interested a reason able time before action is taken of the day when the matter will be investigated. DUTIES OF CLERK.
 SEC. II. The City Clerk shall record in his minute book all changes, corrections and orders made by the Board during its SittingS or as soon aS possible after it's adjournment; must enter upon the assessment books all changes made by the Board and on or before the first Monday of September must com plete corrections in assessment book, ana at- fix thereto, subscribed by himself, an athda- wit of the correctness of the same. On or be- fore the first Monday in October ofeach year the City Clerk shall deliver the tax roll prop erly footed up to the City Treasurer, and shall charge the City Treasurer with the amount of said tax roll and take his receipt therefor, said receipt to include the entire amount of taxes on said assessment.
 TREASURER TO GIVE NOTICE WHEN TAXES ARE DUE AND DELINQUENT. SEC. F. Within ten days after the sitting of Council as q Board of Equalization the Treasurer shall publish in q newspaper pub lished in the City of Douglas for two consec. utiye issues of said paper that the taxes will be due on the first Monday in October, and state the place at which taxes may be paid, time when such taxes will become delin- quent, and that after such taxes become de- linuuent on the first Monday of December, at F o'clock M., penalty of five per cent. will be added. Within fourteen days after the first Monday in December the treasurer shall publish the remaining unpaid taxes as delln- quent, describing the property on which tax es are delinquent, if real property, the l amount of taxes due with the penalty addl- ! tional five per cent, the name 9t the person 1 to whom assessed, and, if said delinquent taxes are on personal property, then he shall
 publish the name of the person so taxed with the amount of said delinquent tax. And he | shall give notice that if said delinquent taxes are not paid within thirty days of said pub | licatiou suit will be begun in the Commis- 1 sioner's Court by the Treasurer in the name 1 of the City Council for the collection of said delinquent taxes in the same manner as for | debt.
 rr,nc>tpNr FOR TAxEs
 SEC. iS. When judgmentis is obtained in said 1 Court for said taxes an execution shall issue 1 against the property of said delinquent
 taxes. the same as in civil actions for debt.
 TIME OF TAKING EFFECT.
 SEC. 4. This ordinance shall be published l in the Douglas Island News, a weekly paper | published in the City of Douglas, on the fol, 1 lowing dates: June p, 1902, July 2, 1902, and l three copies of the same shall be posted at ! three public places In the City and shall take l effect and be In force from and after ten
 days from date of first publication and post | ing.
 Passed and approved the Fist day of June,
 A' O' 1''-' CHAs. A. HoPP, Mayor.
 Attest; JOHN HENSON, Clerk.
 I, John Henson, Clerk of the City of Doug l las, do hereby certify that the foregoing is an ordinance passed by the Common CounclI ! of the City of Douglas, at meetlng or Salo { Council held on the 21st day of June, A. U.
 1902.
 In witness whereof have hereunto set my
 hand and caused the corporate seal ot said
 City to be attached this Fist day of June, A. ! ( ~~, JOHN HENSON, l }sEAL Clerk of the City of Douglas. The Seattle Music Hall was thrown