Bill from Daniel H. Wells and Others, 31 October 1842
Source Note
Select Committee on Public Revenue [, , , , and ], Bill, to Nauvoo City Council, , Hancock Co., IL, 31 Oct. 1842; handwriting of , , and ; signature of JS; endorsement and docket in handwriting of ; eighteen pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
Page 17
end of each <Municipal> year
sec 32 The following fees and compensation shall be allowed to the several officers and persons herein named for service rendered under the provisions of this ordinance viz:
To each assessor and Collector a sum of two Dollars per day for every <day> necesarily employed in the performance of his duty— to the City treasu[r]er for receiving and paying out the revenue two per cent upon all sums paid out. To the City Recorder <and clerk of the Municipal court> for making out transcripts from his recorder of lands and City lots and lands sold for taxes two cents per Lot for each list for assisting the Marshall <in the selling lands or city lots for taxes> twenty five cents for each certificate of purchase and he shall also be allowed the sum of [blank] <ten> Dollars for the strict performance of his duties as herein set forth and making a complete exhibit of the state of the finances of the annually to be paid out as the City <treasury> there shall also be allowed for publishing the Advertisment for the sale of lands or City lots the sum of four cents for each Lot or parcel, of land contained in the list of sales. and also to the Assessor and Collector the sum of two cents for each City lot or parcel of land in said list and ten per cent for <selling> personal property for taxes and the sum of twenty five cents for Advertising the same Provided he shall not reckon the time, so expended in making out said list and Advertising and selling in his settlement, And to the Marshall for selling said Lands or City Lots the sum [p. 17]