Year: 1863

ORDINANCE NO. l0.J


An Ordinance, Levyfng and Prov1d1ng ior


the Collection of a Tax for the Payment


of Interest upon Town Bonds for the


Year 1868.


The Trustees of the Town of Auburn do Or
dain as follows:


SEC. |. There shall be, and is hereby levied
upon all assessable and taxable properly wlIhin
the corporate limits of the Town OF AUBURN,
Tax of Two Dollars and ten cents upon each one
hundred dollars of taxable property ID accord
once with an act of the Legislature OF California,
entitled "An Act to authorize the Town OF Au-
burn to take and subscribe Fifty Thousand Dol-
lars to the Capital Stock OF the sacramento
Placer and Nevada Railroad Company, ana 10
nrovide for the payment of the same" Approx
ed April 23d, 1860.


SEC 2. 1t shall be, and is hereby made the
duty of the Town Assessor, to proceed immedi-
atelv after the first publication of this Ordinance
with assessing the real and personal properly
within the corporate limits of said town. tie
shall take down alphabetically the name OF each
person and describe the property OF every de-
scription assessed, with the amount OF valuatloh
thereof. and he shall complete said assessment
and return his assessment roll to the Iown Clefk
on or by the lst day of April, A. D. 1868


SEC. 3 1t shall be the duty Of the Town
Clerk to furnish to the Marshal a correct copy OF
| said Assessment Roll, with the amount OF taxes
correctly 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 ny nm
| 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
| nF hn
of said roll is furnished him, he shall mark there
ON the work paid" opposite the name OF each
| person thus paying and shall proceed to collect
| the remainder Of said taxes by the first OF May,
A. D. 1868, and if by said time there shall re-
main upon said list any delinquent taxpayers,
| he shall make out correct list thereof with a
description, of the property. amount of assess
ment and amount of taxes due and return the
same to the Clerk or the Board Of Trustees.


SEC. s. 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 delin-
queut list. to file in the Justices Court of Town
ship No. 3. proper complaints against said delin-
quents. each separately setting forth the fact of
| the levyng of the tax, the assessing OF the prop
erty the demand for payment oil said tax, and
| the refusal OF failure to do, and to prose-
| cute the same to judgments; said suits be-
| ing prosecuted in the name Of ''the Inhabitants
| Of the Toacn Of .4ubur,,,' and to procure the
| issuing of execution thereon. and the collection
of said judgment in the mode and manner pre-
scribed by the laws Of this State, and the judg
ments thus acquired shall be lien upon all the
real estate of the parties delinquent but of per-
sonal property. (if any, shall first be exhausted
of said delinquent before the enforcement OF said
| lien against the real property OF said delinquent.


SEC. 5. All moneys collected by the Marshal
shall be by him paid over to the Town Treasur +.
each week as collected, taking receipt therefor
and said receipt shall be filed with the Town
Clerk to entitle him to credit the amount of said
| Marshal's account.


SEC. This Ordinance to be in force and
effect from and after the 2lst day of March, 1863