Year: 1862




for the purpose of meeting the whole amount of
interest to become due within said year upon said
County bonds In making said levy said board
shall designate the number of cents on each one
| hundred dollars of said taxable property which
shall be so taxed for said purpose, and the tux SO
levied shall be known and designated as the Rail
| Road Tax.


| SEC. II. The tax so levied shall be assessed
and collected at the same time, by the the same
! officers, and in the same manner other county
taxes are levied and collected, for which said Of
fcers and the County Treasurer, for dsburse
ments shall receive the same rate of compensa-
! tion as is allowed by law for the collection and
disbursement of other county taxes. The tax
collector upon the collection of said tax shall
| give to each tax payer separate receipt. which
shall show upon its face the amount OF rail road
tax so paid by him. These receipts shall he
printed and all similar in form; differing only in
name. date and amount.


SEC l3. The County Treasurer shall separate
the amount collected on rail road tax from other
moneys in the Treasury and shall keep the same
in separate fund to be called the Rail Road
| Fund of which fund he shall keep a separate ac-
| count.


SEC H. The Board OF Supervisors shall pro-
vide for the prompt payment of the interest on
said county bonds as the same falls due. and for
this purpose they shall, as nearly us possible at
| the time of making the annual levy, estimate the
per centage of tax necessary to be levied to meet
| said interest for the next succeeding year, and |
| shall fix the levy at said amount. Should there
| for any reason be deficiency in the Rail Fund.
derived from said tax for the payment of any in
tcrcst it falls due. it shall be the duty OF said
! Board to provide for the payment of said inter
est out of the General Fund of said County, and
in such case they shall in their next levy provide
Il sufficient fund to pay the accruing annual in
terest, and also, to reimburse the General Fund
with the amount so taken from the same to pay
slii interest.


SEC. Is. In addition to tie moneys arising
from The R!il Road Tax aforesaid, the County
Treasurer shall also place in said Fund all moneys
paid lufo the treasury of said county by said
Raj! Road Company, for interest or principal
upon the bonds of said company held by said
county: aud said money shall he used by the said
| Board of Supervisors for the payment of interest
on said County Bonds in like manner as the mo-
ncy raised by said Rail Road Tax. Whenever
the amount pail into said Fund by tho said Rail
Road Company shall eqal the amount of interest
| to fall due upon the said County Bonds for the
ensuing year, no Rail Road Tax shall be levied
by said Board


SEC. l6. AT the expiration Of five years from the
time of issuing said county bonds the said board
of Supervisors shall provide Sinking Fund for
the purpose of securing the payment of the
principal of said bonds at their maturity; and for


this purpose they shall impose such special tax as
they may deem necessary and the moneys arising


thereform together with all the moneys received
from said Rail Road Company not applied to
payment of interest shall be applied toward the


redemption of said bonds in such manner as said


Board may deem most expedient for the interests
of said county.


SEC. II. The interest accruing upon the Railroad
!, Bonds given by the Company to the County dur
inc the period of three years from the date OF


said bonds shall not until the expiration OF said
three years be required to be paid in money to
the county, nor shall any proceedings for its foc-
ed collection be taken within said period by the
county.


SEC IS At the time within the s,id period of
| when the interest the bonds
given by the Rail Road Company to the County
shall fall due. the Rail Road Company shall issue
a number of shares of full paid stock Of said
company equal in value at par TO the amount Of
| said interest. and shall deposit sid stock with
the Treasurer of said county for his disbursement
| rs hereinafter provided.


SEC. 10. Upon the presentation and delivery to
said County Treasurer of one any number Of


the Rail Road Tax Receipts mentioned in Section
eleven. by any holder of the same. showing the
payment by the holder of said receipts. or his
as.ignors of one hundred dollars of the Rail
Road Tax herein provided for, the said Treasurer
shall deliver to such person one share of the full
paid stock deposited with him by said company,
and said person shall be the owner thereof The
said tax receipts shall be transferable by ndorse
ment and may be presented for exchange by any
indorsre. or if indorScd in blank by the bearer
OF the same. The Treasurer shall exchange full


paid stock for said tax rece pts at the rate of one
share OF stock. for each one hundred dollars of tax
receipts so long as said tax receipts shall be pre-
sentcd for exchange. If any holder shall present
to the Treasurer receipts amounting to more than
one hundred dollars but not amounting in the ag-
grecate to an even number of hundreds OF dollars,
the Treasurer shall issue shares of stock for the
even hundreds, and a receipt signed by him for the
fractional sum. Such receipts shall be transfera-
BILE and exchaugcable for stock in the same manner
as the Rail Road Tax Receipts


SEC 90. So soon as the Tax Collector shall
have made his returns in each year. the County
Treasur er shall estimate whether the amount Of
Rail Road Tax collected for which Rail Road tax
receipts have been given exceeds the par value of
the full paid stock which has been deposited with
him by the Rail Re ad Company; and in the event
that there be such excess, he shall notify said
Rail Road Company of the fact and Of the
amount of said excess, and said Rail Road Com
pany shall Immediately issue and deposit with
said Treasurer sufficient additional full paid stock
to meet said excess.


!, Sec. q. The County Treasurer shall receipt to
the Rail Road Company for all the stock received
!, by him from said Rail Road Company, and shall


preserve all receipts received by him in exchange
for stock as his vouchers for said exchange, and


shall at the same time of receiving such receipts
y write Cancelled" on the face OF EACH and shall
: in a book kept for that purpose keep an account
! of the stock received and the tax receipts ex-


changed for stock.


SEC %. At the end of three years from the
! time of issuing said bonds, provided for in this
a Act. the County Treasurer shall credit the Rail
, Road Company upon the interest due. or to be-
come due, upon its said bonds, with the full
I amount of stock which during said period has
been exchanged fo' said railroad tax receipts,
: less an amount equal to the sums allowed and
paid to said Tax Collectors and Treasurer for the
collection and disbursements of said railroad
! taxes, and shall return to said Company the cou-


pOns for the interest thus paid and any shares OF
> stock which may be in his hands unexchanged. -.


If the interest upon said railroad bonds up to
. said date shall not have been fully paid by the
exchange Of stock as aforesaid the balance shall