Year: 1872




tioneers, itinerapt traders, to keepers of no.
tells and livery stables; and to levy tax on
all drays, carts, wagons, carriages, omnibus.
es, buggies, horses, mares, or mules, Kept
for hire. or used for public purposes in said
town, uhd they have the full and only pow
er to impose tax on all shows, or exhibl'
tions for gain or reward, within the corpo'
rate limits of said town. They shall have
power to impose tax, not exceeding twenty
cents, on every one hundred dollars OF the
value of personal property lying within the
corporate limits of the town, the real and
personal property of churches and schools
and colleges excepted. That an ordinance
declaring the rates of annual taxation upon
property and other subjects Of annual taxa
ton for the year shall be publ he'd at least
three weeks during the month Of JANUARY,
in each year: Provided, That the said town
council shall have power to levy tax TOR
this year under the same rules as is above
stated, Immediately after the passage OF this
act, and that all persons liable to taxation
under the same, shall make oath of their
taxable property within said town, and make
payment of their taxes to the clerk or
treasurer Of said corporation, or such other
person as they may be ordered or required to
do during the succeeding month after pub
lication; and upon the failure to make such
returns and payments as required, the par
ties so in default shall be subject to the pen
alties provided by law for the failure to pay
the general State and county tax, to be en-
forced by the orders of the intendant and
wardens or majority of them, for the use
of said town, except that, in such cases. that
executions to enforce the payment of such
taxes shall be issued under the seal of the
corporation, and may be directed to the town
marshal or other persons appointed by the
said town council, to levy, collect and re-
ceive the same, with costs, as in such cases
made and provided by law; and all property
upon which such taxes shall be levied and
assessed is hereby declared and made liable
for the payment thereof in preference to all
other debts except debts due to the State,
which shall be paid first; and that all other tax
es imposed by the intendant and wardens, or
majority of them shall be payable in advance
by the parties liable for the same, and on fail
ure of payment, their property shall be liable
for the same as in manner and form just be-
fore stated. .-....


SEC. 9. The intendant and wardens elect,
together with clerk and treasurer, shall, dur
ing their term of office, be exempt from street
and police duty. Each town council shall,
within one month after the expiration OF
their term of office, make out and return to
their successors in office full account Of
their receipts and expenditures during their
term; which account shall be published in
one or more papers of the town or county,
and shall pay over all money in their posses
sion, belonging to the corporation, and de-
liver up all books, records and other papers
incident to their Office, to their successors,
and on failure to do so, shall be liable to be
fined in sum not exceeding FIVE hundred
dollars, to be collected by any proper action
of the town council.


SEC. 10. That all ordinances or bylaws
passed by the town council of Lewisville
shall be binding upon the citizens Of said
town, the same as the laws Of the State.


SEC. II. That all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with, or supplied by this act,
be, and the same are hereby repealed.


Sec, II. This act shall be deemed pub
lie act, and continue in force for the term of
twenty years, and until the end ofthe next ses-
sion of the Legislature thereafter.