Year: 1873




County Commissioners shall appoint
one referee, ami the claimant or
claimants or owner or owners Of the
property to be condemned shall an
point ono referee, and i'm the event
the two referees so appointed shall
not agree in the valuation of the
property, or claimants interest there.
in. then the two SO appointed shall
select third referee, aisd the decision
OF the majority of such three, as to
the valuation of the property, or the
interest therein by them appraised.
shall be reported to said Board of
County Commissioners, and may by
them be regarded and held as final
and binding; and upon the tender
IN gold coin of the sum named by
said appraisers for such property, to
the claimant or claimants, owner or
owners thereof, or his or their agent
or attorney, such property, or the in
terest therein appraised, shall become
and he the property of said town or
city; and said Board of County Com
missionerS may at any time after
twenty days notice, cause the Sheriff
OF the county to remove all persons
and ObStructiOns from such proper, v
in case the same be real, and NAV
take immediate possession Of the con-
demned property, whether the same
be real or personal. In case the
claimant or claimants, owner or own
ers of property sought to he con-
demned, as herein provided. shall
refuse or neglect when required by
the Board Of County Commissioners
to appoint referee to value such
property. then said Board of County
Commissioners shall constitute a
Board of Appraisers of such property,
and their valuation of Lhe same shall
be final and binding but no act OF
condemnation of property, or of any
claim of interest therein, as herein
provided, shall be deemed or held as
an al mission OH the part of said
town or city, or the inhabitants
thereof, of the legality of the asserted
claim thereto, or right therein. And
in the condemnation Of property, as
i'll this act provided, the referees or
County Commissioners, as the case
uay be, shall consider whether the
proposed improvement, for which
said property is so condemned. will
be of any benefit to the person or per-
sons owning or claiming the said
property, or some interest therein !;





benefit to such person or persons,
they shall estimate the value of such
benefit to him or them, and deduct
the ealnount thereof from the estimated
value of the property or interest
therein condemned.


Sec. 2. Said Board of County Com
missioners may annually at the time
of assessing or fixing the amount of
taxes for county purposes, assess, fix
and designate the amount of taxes
that shall lie levied and collected for
city or town purposes, on all real and
personal property assessable for State
or county purposes, within any town
or city in their county; which said
taxes shall he collected at the same
time, in the same manner, and I'y the
same officers as provided in the reve-
nue. laws of this State tor the levyinS
and collecting of State and county
taxes and said revenue laws shall in
every respect, not inconsistent with
tho provisions of this act, be deemed
and held applicable to the levying
and collecting of the taxes hereinbe-
fore mentioned and in all cases
where said Commissioners or the
County Assessor or District Attorney
of said county, or any other officer,
or any Judge or Justice of the Peace
of said county, is required or author-
lied by law to adopt or use any form
appertaining to the assessment or COL
lection of county taxes, he or they
NAV also adopt or use a similar form
in relation to assessing, levylng and
collecting the taxes herein provided
for, and may use the sans in any
book, paper or document in which he
or they have used the first named
form; and in filling up the blank OF
said last named form, there shall be
inserted the name of said town or
city, using the name by which it IS
commonly designated, or such name
as will enable the inhabitants thereon
to know that their town or city, as
the case may be, is intended to be
named in said book, paper or docu-
meni and all suits instituted to COL
lect State or county taxes on real or
personal property, assessed IN sald
town or city, shall also include the
unpaid taxes herein authorized to be
levied, and the judgments therein
rendered shall also include such taxes.


Sec. 8. All taxes. fines; forfeit
ures. or other moneys collected or
received by any officer or person,
under or by virtue OF the provisions
of this act, shall be paid by the officer
or person collecting or receiving lhe
same to the County Treasurer or the
county in which said taxes or mo,
news were collected or received, ana
said County Treasurer shall SET
the same apart as fund to De-
used solely for the beneht OF
the town or city in which they
were collected or received ne
shall also enter the same upon ms
books to the credit of said town or
CITY, and shall, when required by the
Board of County Commissioners, al
vide said fund into two funds: one 10
be designated as the General Fund;
the other as Redemption Fund. and
he shall not pay any money OUT OF
said general fund except upon war
rants drawn upon him by the County
Auditor of his county, nor pay any
money out of said redemption lunu
except i'm the manner speclhed IN tnis
act. Until otherwise ordered by the
BOARD of County Commissioners an
such money shall he held in the
general fund but If at any tllne anea
Creating a redemption FUND, tnerG mere
shall be more money in the generai
fund than is necessary 10 nee. oI
rent expenses, said Board OF Colnmls-
sioners NAV direct the treasurer W