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.
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Sec 8 Assessors and collectors shall finish taking in the list of taxable property with in [blank] <sixty> days after receiving the list from the Recorder, and shall return the same together with the original list to the <clerk of the Municipal> order <Court> which original List the he shall file and preserve in his office and shall deliver a copy of the same over to the Assessors and Collectors as hereinafter provided
Sec 9 upon the return of the list of taxable property by the Assessors & Collectors to the <clerk of the Municipal Clerk Court> recorderaforesaid. It shall be the duty of the Recorder <clerk aforesaid> to cause then notes <ten days> written Notice to be posted up in thru of the most publick places in the , stating that the assessment of the is taken and that any person feeling agrieved by the valuation of his their property may aply before the CityCouncil <municipal court> at their next sitting for redress stating the time when <and where> they CityCouncil will sit, <which Notices shall be posted up at least ten days previous to the sitting of the court aforesaid> and have then and them <as> the lists or books of assessment aforesaid.
Sec 10 If the court shall be satisfied that either from their own knowledge or from the testimony of others that the valuation of the assessors & collectors was too high considered in reference to the actual value of the property or in reference to the valuation fixed upon the property of others, they shall revalue said— property, and fix the value which the ought to have been fixed by the assessor & collector but applications under this section shall be made at the past <regular> <time stated in the Notice provided for in the preceding section unless the court shall adjourn for that purpose of giving longer time> sittingof the Court and not afterwards [p. 6]