Nauvoo City Council, Ordinance, , Hancock Co., IL, 31 Oct. 1842; handwriting of ; docket in handwriting of ; fourteen pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
payment thereof; if any [illegible] [person] shall be absent from home when the assessor and Collector shall call upon him or her for payment of taxes, the assessor and Collector shall leave a written or printed notice at the residence of every such Person, stating the amount of Taxes due from such Person, and requiring him or her to make payment of the same within ten days from the date of such notice, specifying the place where said payment shall be made, and such Notice shall be considered a demand for the taxes within the meaning of this ordinance.
Sec. 15. If any Person shall fail to pay his or her taxes within ten days after the expiration of the time stated in said Notice, the assessor and Collector is authorized and required to seize and levy upon a reasonable portion of personal property of such person, of value sufficient to pay the Taxes and Cost, and to advertize and sell the same at publick Vendue: he shall give ten days notice of the time and place of sale by posting up notices in three of the most publick places in his Ward, and if the property shall sell for more than sufficient to satisfy said Taxes and Cost, the remainder shall be refunded to the owner.
Sec. 16. Upon the receipt or payment of taxes the assessors and Collectors shall give a recept therefor, stating in such receipt the amount paid and the value of the property taxed, and also describing each lot or tract of Land by its numbers as described in the tax list.
Sec. 17. The assessors and Collectors shall receive in payment of Taxes, City Scrip, gold and silver Coin, but for all other funds taken by them they shall be allowed the specie value thereof only. Provided the Assessors and Collectors shall keep an accurate account of the amount of City Scrip received by them in payment of Taxes and shall endorse on each <Bill> the name of the Person from whom he receives the same on each Bill so received, and the Treasurer [p. 6]