The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-11

or stub shall be returned to the street
tax collector and shall be by him pre-
served in his office.
Sew. 5. Such summonses shall be
returnable not less than three days
and not more than thirty days after
they are executed.
Section 6. No policeman shall re-
ceive any money in lieu of the work
required to be done on the streets,
! by any person liable to street duty
but all such money shall be paid to
the street tax collector and only his
receipt, in the prescribed form, shall
be valid and serve as protection tol
the person paying the money.
Sec. 7. The clerk of the city of
Hattiesburg shall cause to be printed
a sufficient number of street tax re-
ceipts for each year and deliver til,
same to the street tax collector, and
shall charge such street tax collector
with such receipts. The street tax
collector when he makes his final set
Element for each year shall return to-
the city clerk all unused street taA
receipts, and. shall be credited by
the mayor and board of aldermen with
the same. Said street tax receipts
shall be in the following form:
NO. ........
Hattiesburg, Miss, ..... 100.
Received from ...................
..............-. Dolldls'
For street taxes for one year from
January 7, 190..
S............
'.''''.
Street Tax Collector.
Sec. s. 1t shall be the duty Of the
street tax collector to keep a record
of all persons paying street tax, show
ing thereon by which policeman each
of such persons were summoned, and
all persons paying street tax without
being summoned. He shall make
monthly reports of the facts shown
by such record, by filing a certified
copy of the same with the city clerk.
Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the
street tax collector to pay into the
city treasury, on the first day of each
month, all money coming into his
hands as street tax collector. less his
comm sion and take proper vouchers
therefor, and Immediately make re-
port thereof to the mayor and board
of aldermen.
Sec TO- The street tax collector
SHALL receive as his compensation
five per centum of all street tax
} money received by him and paid into
the city treasury.
Sec. II. Each policeman shall re-
' ceive as his compensation for services
t required under this ordinance five per
centum of all street tax money paid
to the street tax collector by persons
i summoned by him, which compensa-
l ton shall be allowed by the mayor
j and board of aldermen on due pre-
D sentation of the claim.
Sec. ~. Any person liable to street
d duty may pay the communication money
Il herein provided for to the street tas
L collector, without having been sum
l. moned, and in such cases no commits
+ sion on the sum so paid shall be al
lowed to any policeman,
o Sec 13-Any person liable to worl
c on the streets who shall fail to per
Il form such labor, or pay the commute
+ ton money herein provided, wher
e summoned so to do shall upon con
viction, before the police justice, b'
! fined not less than one dollar no
e more than ten dollars. The polic'
II justice in his discretion may dis
IL charge any person prosecuted for fail
ure to work on the streets, or pa
the Communication money before cor
viction upon the payment of all con-