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The Constitution of the Confederate States of America. 1862 3 (1862.4)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0805 and id is 1 raw text is: ACTS
PASSED AT THE
EXTRA SESSION- IN 1862.
CHAP. 1.-An ACT prescribing the mode of obtaining Judgment against
defaulting Collectors of Taxes and other Public Dues.
Passed May 17, 186.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the twenty-third Acts of 180
section of chapter fourth, entitled an act for the collection of taxes amended
on persons and property, passed March twenty-eighth, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty, and the fifty-third and fifty-fourth sections of chapter
second, entitled an act making regulations concerning licenses, passed
March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty, and the twenty-fourth Act of 1862
section of chapter second, entitled an act amending and re-enacting amended
the thirty-ninth chapter of the Code, in relation to taxes on dividends,
certain estates of decedents, process on suits, official seals, deeds,
wills, administrations and foreign insurance companies, passed Morch
thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be reduced into one sec-
tion, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
In case any sheriff, clerk or other collector of taxes, or any per- Sheriffs and
son or corporation charged with the collection or payment of taxes, collectors
militia fines or other public dues, fail to pay the same into the trea-
sury at the time and in the manner prescribed by law, the auditor of Judgment, how
public accounts may file in the clerk's office of the circuit court of obtained
the city of Richmond, or of the county, city or town within which the
auditor of public accounts shall at the time be authorized to perform
the duties of his office, with the clerk thereof, an accurate statement
of the amount with which any such collector may be chargeable on
account of such taxes, militia fines or other public dues; and there-
upon such clerk shall enter up judgment against such collector and
his sureties (where itny has been given), jointly or severally, or
against any one or more of them, for the amount wherewith lie is
chargeable, with interest thereon, at the rate of twelve per centuin Interest
per annum, from the time of the failure to pay until payment, 'and Damages
fifteen per contum damages in addition thereto, unless the auditor of
public accounts shall in his discretion, for good cause, accept a judg-
ment with a less per contum of damnages. A judgment so rendered

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