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 newspaper of the city for at least two publications, and the Comms-
 sion shall meet at it's usual place of
 holding meetings, not later than the second Tuesday in July, when and
 where any taxpayer who may appear shall be heard in favor of or against any proposed tax leVies, and upon such hearing the Commission may
 modify or amend any item or items
 of expenditure in said proposed
 budget, and after the conclusion of
 such hearing the Commission shall
 adopt said proposed budget as fin
 ally corrected, as the city budget for
 the ensuing year.
 Sec. 2. The Commission shall fin
 ally adopt not later than the third
 Tuesday in July, an ordinance levy
 ing upon the assessed valuation of all the property within the city, sub
 ject to taxation, a rate of taxation
 upon every hundred dollars of Valu-
 atiOn sufficient to raise the amounts
 estimated in the annual budget to be
 required to be raised by taxation.
 And except as herein otherwise pro
 vided, the rules, practices and pro
 cedure which now are. or hereafter
 may be, provided by state law for
 the levy, assessment and collection
 of state and county taxes, shall gov
 ern and control the corresponding city officials in the levy, assessment and collection of city taxes of the
 City of Phoenix so far as the same are, or may be, applicable and not
 in conflict with the city charter or any ordinance of the City of Phoe- nix
 Sec I. The City Assessor and ex- officio City Collector, between the first Monday in January and .he first Monday in May Of each year, shall ascertain by diligent inquiry and examination all property in the city, real. personal and mixed, sub . ject to taxation: also the names Of all persons, firms, associations and corporations owning or claiming the same or any interest therein, or having possession or control thereof, and shall determine the full cash Value of all such property, and shall list and assess the same to the per son, firm, association or corporation owing or having the possession. charge or control thereof. and shall prepare, complete and file for equali- zation an assessment roll thereof with the Commission.
 In the said City Assessor and eX-of- officio City Collector may demand of each person, firm, association and and from the president, cashier, treasurer or managing agent of every firm, association and cor pOratiOn a correct list, under oath or affirmation, of all the property real, personal and mixed, within the City of Phoenix, owned or claimed by, or in the possession or control Of such person, firm, association or And he shall also have the power and authority to call upon any person, firm, association or cor poration, and upon any officer or agent in charge thereof, for any in bearing upon the subject of the valuation of the list of tax able property or pertaining Thereto, and the further power and authority to examine any and all maps, draw ings, books, invoices, records. papers and documents belonging to suah person, firm, association or corpora ton, and shall have power to sum- wit md ifN- and to compel them to produce maps, drawings books, invoices, rec )rds, papers and documents before him, at time and place to be py him appointed, and shall have power 10 administer oaths at all such ex- 
 He shall also have power, and is hereby directed, at the expense of
 he city. to make written request of, and to secure from, the County As. sessor of Maricopa County, Arizona, l complete certified copy of the County Assessors assessment roll, of both real and personal property, So ar as such assessment roll pertains Q property within the limits of the 'ity of Phoenix. under the prov- sions of paragraph 4S77 of the Re tised Statutes of Arizona, 1919.
 And, where by law the assessment 1 )f any particular property or class 1 )f property within the city is author | zed or directed to be made by some {! state officer or officers, the value 2s 50 fixed by such state officer or of l fol | y the said City Assessor and ex- 'fficio City Collector in the prepara- ion of said assessment roll. 1
 Sec. ,. The Commission shall meet ! tt the usual place of holding meet i ngs on the second Monday in May | )f each year, at ten o'clock in the | orenoon of said day. and sit as a | Board of Equalization, and shall con inue in session from day to day | or twenty days, at least five days | published notice thereof being prev l ously given. It shall have full pow
 r to correct, modify, strike out, re- luce or raise any assessment shown n the assessment roll prepared by | he City Assessor and eX-officio City . Collector; provided, that the Com mission shall give a notification of | my proposed raise to each person whose assessment is proposed to be aised, by publishing at least twice n the official newspaper notifi- ation of such proposed raise. or by ending him, through the United States postoffice, properly directed nd stamped, a notification of such