Loading...
It shall be the duty of the Assessor to make an assessment of the property within the Town subject to taxation, substantially in the manner and form in which assessments are made by the Assessor of the County, and return the same to the Council on or before the first day of May in each year, and for this purpose he shall have all the powers conferred by law on County Assessors. He shall list the number of dogs in the Town, and the names of the persons owning the same, which list shall be returned to the Council.
The Mayor, Recorder, Assessor, and Superintendent of Roads, Streets, and Alleys of said corporation, shall each receive a compensation for his services to be fixed by the Council, which shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he shall have been elected.
The inhabitants of said Town provided it constructs and keeps in good repair the roads, streets, alleys, sidewalks and gutters within the same, shall not be required to pay any district road taxes assessed by the County Court, or to perform any labor on the roads outside of the corporate limits of the Town; nor shall the inhabitants of said Town or while it provides for its own poor, be required to pay any poor levies assessed by the County Court for the support of the poor outside of said corporate limits; but beyond this the taxable property in said Town shall not be exempt from the payment of County levies for any purpose for which such levy may be lawfully laid, by reason of any provisions in its Charter or act of incorporation, or otherwise.
Loading...