Year: 1862

the collection Of u tax for the payment Of
interest upon Town Bonds.


The Trustees of the To,cn of .fu6urn. do or
ddin as tOlIO,Us:


Sec. l. There shall be, and is hereby levied upon
all assesslbe and taxable property within the cor
porate limits of the town of Auburn, q tax Of
Two Dollars and Twenty five Cents upon each one
hundred dollars of assessable property in accord
ance with an act Of the Legislature of California,
entitled "An Act to authorize the town of Auburn
to take and subscribe Fifty Thousand Dollars to
| the Capital Stock of the Sacramento Placer and
Nevada Railroad Company. and to provide for
the payment of the same" Approved April 23d,
1860.


SEC. 2. 1t shall be, and is hereby made the duty
of the Town Assessor, to proceed Immediately
after the first publication of this Ordinance, with
| assessing the real and personal property within
the corporate limits of said town. He shall take
down alphabetically, the name of each person
and describe the property of every description
assessed, with the amount Of the valuation there
of, and he shall complete said assessment, and re-
turn his assessment roll to the Town Clerk on or
by the 18th day of March. A. D. 1862.


Sec 3. It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk
to furnish to the Marshal correct copy of said
Assessment Roll, with the amount of taxes cor
rectly computed to each person, and the whole
amount of said taxes shall be by him added up.
and the total amount thereof charged against
said Marshal. in an account to be by said Clerk
kept; and the Clerk shall from time to time credit
the Marshal with the amounts paid by him to the
Treasurer.


SEC. 4. 1t shall be the duty of the Marshal to
collect from each and every person the amount of
taxes hereby assessed, and for that purpose he
may accompany the Assessor and demand from
each citizen at the time OF being assessed, the
amount of taxes thus levied and when the dup-
cate copy OF said roll is furnished him, he shall
mark thereon the word paid. opposite the name
of each person thus paying, and shall proceed to
collect the remainder of said taxes by the first Of
April A. d. 1862, aud If by said time there shall
remain upon said list any delinquent taxpayers,
he shall make out correct list thereof with Il
description of property. amount Of assessment
and amount OF taxes due, and return the same
to the Clerk. or the Board of Trustees.


SEC 5. 1t shall be the duty of the President of
the Board OF Trustees upon the order OF the Board,
to proceed, after the return of said delinquent
list. to file in the Justices Court of Township No.
3, proper complaints against said delinquents,
each separately setting forth the fact of the
levying of the tax. the assessing of the property
the demand for the payment of said tax, and the
refusal or failure so to do, and to prosecute the
same to judgment; said suits being prosecuted in
the name of "the inhabitants of the to,Cn of
.fuburn," and to procure the issuing of execution
thereon, and the collection of said judgment in
the mode aud manner of collecting judgments
usually prescribed by the laws of this State, and
the judgments thus acquired shall be lien upon
all the real estate OF the parties delinquent but
of personal property (if any,) shall first be ex-
hausted of said delinquent before the enforce
ment of said lien against the real property of
said delinquent.


Sec. S. All of the general provisions of the
general revenue laws of this State, far as they
can practically be applied to the assessment and
collecting of the taxes heretofore mentioned, and
which do not conflict herewith, are hereby adopt
| ed, and made part Of this ordinance.
| SEC. 6. All moneys collected by the Marshal
shall be by him paid over to the Town Treasurer
by the first day of April, 1862, taking receipt
therefor, and said receipt shall be filed with the
Town Clerk to entitle him to credit the amount
| to said Marshal's account.


| SEC. 9. This Ordinance to be in force and effect
| from and after it's passage