The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-07-09
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
ORDINANCE NO. So

tax collector and the collection of a
territorial tax upon male persons.
Section l. That there is hereby
made, imposed and levied upon each
male person, except soldiers, sailors
in the United States navy or revenue
cutter service, volunteer fremen
paupers, insane persons or territorial
charges, within the territory of Alaska
or the waters thereof, over the age OF
Fl years and under the age Of SO
years, an annual tax in the sum of
five ($500) dollars, to be paid and
collected in the manner provided in
the following sections of this Ordl-
nance, and to be deposited with the
treasurer of the territory Of Alaska
and used for no other than school pur-
poses.
Sec. 2 The common council shall,
at their first meeting in March of each
year, appoint a school tax collector,
and he shall at once, or before the first
day of April of each year, publish in
a newspaper of general circulation pub
lished in the town of Cordova, Alaska,
once each month during the period
within which the tax is due and pay
able, such notice setting forth that
the tax imposed by this ordinance is
due and payable between the dates
herein designated and that the pay
ment thereof will become delinquent
as provided by Sec. of this ordinance,
and warning all persons to pay the
same to the school tax collector, and
in case of failure, the penalties pro-
vided by the territorial laws will be
imposed.
Sec 8. Said tax Of five ($5.00) dol
lars, as specified in Section l of this
ordinance, shall be due and payable
between the first Monday in the month
of April and the first Monday in the
month of August in each year.
Sec. f. All persons subject to the
tax who are in the territory of Alaska
on the first Monday in the month of
April shall pay said tax on or before
the first day of May in the same year,
and all persons arriving in the terri
tory of Alaska after the first Monday
in the month of April shall pay said
tax within thirty 500 days after such
arrival.
Sec. 5. All persons subject to said
tax shall pay the same within ten (10)
days after a written or oral demand
by the said school tax collector made
within the period between the first
Monday in April and the first Monday
in August of each year.
Sec. 6. On demand of the school
tax collector it shall be the duty of
any person, firm or corporation en-
ploying labor in the city of COrdOva to
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the employees of such person, firm or
corporation, subject to the tax i'm
posed herein, and failure or neglect to
comply with the provisions of the or
dinance shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanOr, and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be punished as provided
in Section s, Chapter 20, of the SEES
sion Laws of the Territory of Alaska.
Sec. 7. All taxes shall become de-
linquent if not paid within the time
prescribed in Section 5, or within ten
(1O) days after demand by the school
tax collector, as above described, and
each person delinquent in the pay
ment of his tax as aforesaid shall be
subject to a penalty of two $4,000
dollars in addition to the amount of
the tax.
Sec. 8. Any person who shall fail,
neglect or refuse to pay his tax, as
herein provided, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
ton thereof shall be punished as pro-
vided by Sec. 6, Chap. 20, of the Ses-
sion Laws of the Territory of Alaska.
Sec. 8. The school tax collector
shall keep an accurate account of all
moneys collected by him under this
ordinance, and shall, on the first day
of each month during the period within
which the tax herein provided for is
due and payable, transmit all such
moneys in his hands to the treasurer
Of the territory of Alaska, with list
of persons from whom collected. Such
statement shall be verified by the af-
fidavit of the school tax collector to
the effect that the same is in all re
spects a full and true statement of all
moneys received by him under the pro-
visions of this ordinance. After the
first Monday in the month of August
in each year the school tax collector
shall, at least once in three 60
months, file an additional statement
setting forth any taxes and penalties
collected by him under the provisions
Of this ordinance during said period
of three CD months, and shall trans