The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-07-22
SCHOOL TAX IN THIS COUNTY.
Must be Collected by a Special Act Passed by
the Legislature In 1907 g.

the act passed in 1867 and amend
cd in 1868 relative to the collec.
ton of school tax in this county,
as copied from the pamphlet
laws. Ed.
SECTION 1. BE 1t enacted by
the Senate and House of Repre-.
sentatives of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania IN General AS.
sembly met, and 1t is hereby en-.
acted by the authority of the
same, That hereafter 1t shall be
the duty Of the commissioners of
the county of Fulton, in each and
every year, Immediately after the
/ assessment of taxes for state and
county purposes shall be compile.
ted, in the manner prescribed by
law, TO cause their clerk to make
fair duplicates of the assessment,
or valuation, in the respective
townships, in said county, in a
convenient form, and deliver the
same to the treasurer of each and
every school board in said coun.
| ty, together with certificate un-
der their hands, respectively, and
attested by their clerk, certify.
ing that the said assessment, or
valuation, is correct, and has
been duly made according to law.
SECTION .. That it shall be
the duty of the treasurer Of the
| different school boards of said
county, after they shall receive
the duplicates of the assessment
from the county commissioners,
as hereinbefore provided, to give
at least thirty days written, or
printed, notice, in at least three
public places in his school dis
trict, or borough, OF the time aud
place at which he will attend, in
his township, or borough, for the
purpose of collecting and receiv-
ing school taxes ; and it shall be
the duty of the said treasurer to
attend, at least two days, in each
school district, or borough, in
said county, for the purpose
aforesaid, previous to the first of
October, in each and every year,
and he shall give receipts for tax
es, in all cases, when required by
the person paying the same: Pro
vided, That if any person shall,
on, or before, the first day of Oc-
tober aforesaid, pay to such treas.
urer the amount Of his, or her,
taxes, such person shall be enti-
tied to a deduction of five per
ceutum on the amount thereof.
SECTION 3. In case any school
tax, assessed in any school dis
trlct, or borough, within the said
county, shall remain unpaid for
period of thirty days from and
after the first of October afore-
said, it shall be the duty of the
treasurer to issue his warrant,
under his hand, accompanied by
a schedule of all such unpaid tax
es, and the names of the persons,
respectively, to whom the same
are charged, in the proper dupli-
cate, directed to the constable of
the proper township, or borough,
whose duty it is hereby made to
receive the same, authorizing and
requiring him to demand and re-
ceive, from the persons named in
the schedule, the sums with
which they are charged, respec
lively, with an addition of five per
centum added thereto, and that
the said additional five per cent
um shall be retained by the con-
stable so collecting, for his own
use and benefit, as compensation
for collecting taxes aforesaid.
SECTION 4. That all laws now
ia force for the assessment aud
collection of school taxes in said
county, not inconsistent with this
act, be and the same are TO re-
main in full force aud effect.
JOHN p. GLASS,
Speaker Of the House OF Representatives
LOUIS w. HALL,
speaker OF the Senate
/ APPRovED-The fifteenth day