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An Act concerning Tax Collectors, and for other purposes. 1839 12 (1839)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0139 and id is 1 raw text is: (12 Ot'Joh i|county ty Court of St. Johns county is hereby declared to be the term commencing on the first Monday of June annually. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That so much of the several acts to which this is an amendment, as requires the vouchersof cpnlIngclnusv executors, administrators or guardians to be recorded, be and the same is hereby repealed. Approved March 4, 1839. No. 6.-AN ACT concerning Tax Collectors, and r'or other purposes. / Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Coun- oeInt TaxO * ci. ofthe Territory of Florida, That the Governorshall annually ector. by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council appoint a tax collector for each county in the Territory, who, before entering upon the duties of the said office, shall enter in- to bond with at least two good and sufficient securities in the coflector to give bond to Judge of sums hereinafter mentioned, to be approved by the Judge of tl'c ounty court. county court, of the county for which the said collector may be appointed, and shall take an oath or affirmation faithfully to discharge the duties of the said office. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the bonds of the said tax poned. . collectors shall be made payable to the Territory of Florida,. and deposited in the office of the Treasurer of the Territory, after having been first duly recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in which the tax collector resides ; the said bond to Condition or be conditioned for the true and faithful payment of all sums that ORO., may come into the hands of the tax collector into the Territori- al Treasury, and the Treasury of the counties repectively, at the time and in the mauner now prescribed by law, and gene- rally to well and truly discharge the duties of their said offices. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the bonds of the tax col- lectors for the counties of St. Johns, Duval, Jefferson, Leon, Gadsden, Jackson, Franflin, Calhoun, and Escambia, shall be Amount of knd. taken in the sum of five thousand dollars each, and for each of the other counties in th,('Territory in the sum of two thousand dollars. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Judge to appocint Juage of the county court of each county, to appoint, on or be- Assessor. fore the first Monday of April in each and every year, or as soon thereafter as possible, in, each Justice's district, a Justice of the Peace to receive and take a list of the taxable property of' the inhabitants of the district, which Justice of the Peace shall forth.with select some public place iii his district and, give public

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