Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-08-14
any Or all ofaeers or employees Of the city for the faithful

or employment under the city, except that OF clerk or secre-
tary of the board o rcity treasurer, to which any salary, com
pensation or emolument is attached; nor shall he be eligible
for election or appointment to any Office or employment I'M
der the city government created by the board while he was a
member thereof, or of which the compensation has been IN
creased while he was such member, until the expiration of at
least one year from the time he has ceased to be such mem
Der; nor shall any commissioner or other city officer or any
employee of the city, be pecuniarily interested, directly or
indirectly in any work or contract or by the city; and II
any such persons shall be so interested, such shall render the
contract void, and it shall be discontinued.
Section 90. The commissioners shall meet in regular
meeting at least once a month for the transaction of public
business, and at such other times as they shall be called to
meet by the mayor to consider only such matters as shall be
set forth in the call; and, at the request of any two commits
sioners, the mayor shall issue such call. At all meetings a
majority of the board shall constitute a quorum.
Section 80. The present mayor and commissioners and
other officers Of the town of Hendersonville shall continue IN
Office until their successors are elected and qualified.
TAXATION N REVENUE.
Section 81. The commissioners shall have power to levy
annually for general purposes, and for the purpose OF pro-
viding payment Of interest and for a sinking fund on its
present or future Indebtedness, an ad valorem tax on all
property within the corporate limits of the city, including
franchises granted by the city and solvent credits and mon
ey on hand, and upon all property taxed by the General
Assembly, not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents on every
one hundred dollars appraised valuation of said property.
Exempting! nevertheless, public property held for public
purposes, places bona fde held for religious worship; places
of burial not held for private profit buildings and necessary
grounds used exclusively for the purposes of education, with
the necessary furniture and equipment pertaining thereto;
institutions of purely public charity; and twenty-five dol
lars worth of household and kitchen furniture belonging to
each family or to any person living alone. The commission
ers may also levy and collect from each male citizen between
the ages of twenty-one and fifty an annual poll tax not ex-
ceeding two dollars; Provided. that all persons exempt from
the payment of a state poll tax shall also be exempt from
the payment of a city poll tax. If for any cause the COM
sioners shall fail or neglect to pass any tax ordinance for
any one year, levying taxes for that year, then in that event
the tax ordinance for the previous year shall be in full force
~ e. - - los ecr ~, wear shalPbe collected un-
der the ordinance Of the preceding year as fully as If the said
ordinance had been passed for the current year. =.
Section 80 The city shall have power to license, tax and
regulate merchants, commission merchants, hotels, inns,
boarding houses, restaurants, markets, brokers, money oroK-
es auctioneers and auction houses and stores or shops where
the principal business is selling good by auction, ltlnerants
merchants or peddlers, paWnbrowers, junk dealers and junk
shops, dealers in second hand goods and merchandise OF any
kind, and all other business or trade or occupations as may
be the proper subject Of police, tax or license regulatlon;
and may pass appropriate ordinances with appropriate pen
alties for the enforcement Or collection OF such tax license
or regulation.
= Section 80. The assessor and collector of taxes during
tho last week of May of each year shall make advertisement
at the court house door, at the city hall and In some news
paper published in the city notifying all persons who own
or have control of property subject to city taxation on the
first day of May to return to him or before the last day OF
June a list of their taxable property. Said lists snail coz
tain a full and true statement of all property taxable by the
city, and the tax collector and assessor is required to admin
lister the following oath to the person making out such re-
turn: 81, A. B., do solemnly swear that the tax return MADE
out and signed by me contains a full and accurate list OF all
the lots in the city, of all personal property subject to taxa
ton, and of all stocks, bonds, income, solvent credits and all
ether property subject to taxation by the state or ordinance
of the city belonging to me Cor to c. d. for whom L am au-
thorized agent to make a tax return for him), according to
the best of nv knowledge, information and belief. SO help
mo God.' From the returns so made the assessor and col
rector of taxes shall within twenty days after the expiration
of the time for taking said list, make out In a book kept Tor
that purpose an alphabetical list of all persons and owners
of property who have so made their returns IN the sameman
ner as tax lists are made out for the collection OF state taxes,
and he shall copy in said book the assessments made by the
township assessors of all property within the city limits.
which assessment may be revised, corrected or amended o3
the commissioners.
Section 81. The assessor and collector Of taxes shall with
In thirty days after the return of the tax list make out, to
the best of his knowledge and belief, by comparing his book
with the returns made by the township assessors, and by dill
a IL &c z-oI1 a~n111 o~1 4ovoh1o Ono IN