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An Act making certain changes in the time prescribed for the duties of commissioners of the revenue, and for other purposes. 1838 7 (1838)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0530 and id is 1 raw text is: Collectiort of Revenue. 7 be applied by the said board, on the warrants of the second audi- tor towards the payment of such interest. 4. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the Commencement. passing thereof. COAt'. 3.-An ACT making ,:urtult uiutigus In tno lit, pioeribed for the da. ties of commissioners of the revenue, and for other purposes. (Passed A.'rl , 1839.) 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That when the coin- Land books, when . . .. ,a delivered to missioners of the revenue in the several counties, cities, towns and ct,fig. boroughs of this commonwealth shall have completed their several land books in each year, they shall, on or belbre the first day of July, deliver one fair copy thereof to the clerk of the county, city, town or borough, to bc by him preserved amongst his records, free .sl-jort to froe for the inspection of every person in any manner interested therein, ,,,pucu,,n. and shall, on or before the first day of October, deliver another fair Copy to be sent to copy thereof to the auditor of public accounts, as his guide in cor-uditor. recting the equalizer's book, and in settling with the sheriff, and on coy for olerifl. or befbre the thirtieth day of Juwi, shall deliver another fair copy thereof to the slerifr of the county, which shall be his guide in col- lecting the land tax of the current year. 2. And be it furhcr enacted, That the commissioners of the re- Litt or taxablo . pro¢pelrty, %ihen venue in the several counties, cities, towns and horoughs of this andhowtobo commonwealth, shall severally, on the first day of March in each taken. year, begin and proceed without delay through their respective dis- tricts, to make their lists of property subject to taxation, and shall call upon every parqan iihjen.t in taxmtion, or having property in his or her possession qr care, on which any t,.,a i ieused, for a written list thereof, which list being corrected if necessary, and dis- tinctly read over by the commissioner to the person delivering tile same, he or she shall then make oath or affirmation, that such list Oath of persons contains a just and true account of all persons, and of every spe-taxed. cies of property in his or her possession or care, within the district (land only excepted), subject to taxation on the last day of Feb- ruary then next preceding ; and that no contract, change or remo- val whatever of property had been made or entered into, or any other method devised, practised or used, in order to evade the pay- ment of taxes; which oath or affirmation the commissioner of the To he administer- revenue is hereby empowered and directed to administer. Aid 'o. the said list of taxable property and land shall have relation to the last day of the same month of February. 3. And be it further enacted, That the four several alphabetical Aidthahtico go. general lists of property required to be made by the commissioner to be deliored. of the revenue, in pursuance of the forty-fifth section of the act, entitled, an act reducing into one the several acts prescribing tie 2 Rn. Code 1819, mode of ascertaining the taxable property within this common- pe2 wealth, and of collecting the public revenue, passed March the sixth, eighteen hundred and nineteen, for the purposes therein men- tioned, shall be delivered as therein required, on or before the last day of June annually, instead of the last day of May. 4. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners of the re- Ctoonmmissioners to venue shall, before the first day of December in every year, return accounts of get- to the court of their respective county or corporations, a correct 'I'* account of their services, instead of on or before the first day of August, as heretofore required; and the said courts are hereby re-

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