Nauvoo City Council, Ordinance, , Hancock Co., IL, 31 Oct. 1842; handwriting of ; docket in handwriting of ; fourteen pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
or in reference to the valuation fixed upon the property of others, they shall revalue said property, and fix the value which ought to have been fixed by the assessor and Collector, but applications under this section shall be made at the time stated in the notice provided for in the preceding section, unless the Court shall adjourn for that <the> purpose of giving longer time, and not afterwards.
Sec. 11. Assessors and Collectors shall be required to Value and assess any City Lots and other Lands not included in the list furnished them by the Recorder aforesaid, which they may ascertain to be liable to Taxation.
Sec. 12. Within ten days after the sitting of the Municipal Court aforesaid it shall be the duty of the Clerk aforesaid to make out and deliver to each assessor and Collector alphabetical lists of taxable property returned by them as corrected by the Municipal Court aforesaid, and take receipts for the aggregate amount of taxes to be collected upon the Lands contained in the lists, and also upon personal property; one of which shall be filed in the office of the City Recorder, and the other shall be delivered to the City Treasurer.
Sec. 13. For the purpose of defraying the necessary expences attendant upon the enactment, administration, and execution of the Laws of this , it is hereby declared and ordained that a Tax of fifty Cents upon every hundred Dollars worth of taxable property shall be levied and collected from the owners thereof, or the persons in whose names the same may be lisited and assessed for taxation.
Sec. 14. The Assessors and Collectors of the shall so soon as they receive the lists of taxable property delivered to them by the Clerk of the Municipal Court, proceed to collect the taxes charged upon said lists, by calling upon each and every Person residing in their respective wards, at his or her usual place of residence, and requiring payment [p. 5]