N
ICE
NOT
5
is hereby given that
thz
Reverend
A. C.
BOUGH
is
no
longer
Manager
of
the
business
carried
on
in
this
town under
the
name
of
JAMES
SUMMERSILIL;
nor
is
he
in
anyway
whatsoever
con-
neeted
with the said
business.
SOPHIA SUMMERSILL.
St. Oroix, Virgin Islands.
July 7th.
1921.
New
Prices
on Ford
Cars,
Trucks
and
lractors ull prices fixed by the
Ford Mortor Company
and
in Local
Currency.
TOURING
ARS
758
TOURING CAKS with Self-starter
and
Demountable
Reins
$368
RUNABOUTS
$7lO
RUNABOQUTS with Seif-starter
and
Demountable
Reins
$B2l
FORDS
with Commercial
Body
(similar
to car of Mr. A. R.
Mac Intosh)
S&6O
FORD TRUCK CHASSES
with solid
er pneumatic
tires.
$749
FORD TRUCK with Commercial
Body (similar to that of Mur.
N.
8. Abramson)
slllO
FORD
TRACTORS
$832
O
THE
COLONIAL COUNCIL
FOR
ST.
CROIX.
(Continued from yesterday’s
Avis.)
ASSESSMENT
OF PROPERTY.
PARTITION.
Section
47.
No change
shall
be
made
in the assessment
of any property during
any year because
of its transfer
or
other
alienation;
except
that it real
estate
is
divided
by sale
upon
petition tor
parti-
tion
or
otherwise
after
a
tax
has
been
levied
thereon
and
such
division
has
been
duly
recorded
in
the
registrar’s
office,
the assessor,
at any
time
before
said
real
estate
may
have
been
sold
for
payment
of taxes,
upon
the
written
re-
quest
of the owners
of any portion
there-
of, shall
apportinrn
the
assessment
and
the Secretary
shall
apportion said
tax-
es,
and
the
costs
and
interest
aceruing
thereon,
upon
the
said
parcels
thereof
in
proportion
tu
the
value of each,
and
only *he
portion of
said
taxes,
interests
and cost
so
apportioned
upon
any
such
parcel
shall continue
to
be
a
lien
wpon
it
and
the
owner
shall
be
liable
only
for the tax apportioned
upon
the
parcel
owned,
in
part
or
in
whole,
by
him.
=L ek
A e
Assessors
shall
send
notices
of
the re-
quest
for
such
apportionment
by..mail
to every
person
interested
in
said: real
estate
whose
aadress
is known
to tnem.
A
person
aggrieved
by
any
acuon
Ol
{l2aßsessorin making
such
apportion-
ment
may
appeal
to
the
permanent
Board
of Raview
and
Equalization,
1n
like
manner
as
in
case
of
complaint
against
original
assessment
or re-assess-
ment,
and the
decision
of the said
board
upon
such
appeal
shall
be
final.
[a all
cases
where
properiy
has
been
trans-
terred
suosequent
to
the date
at- which
the
bill
or receipt
for tax on
such
pro-
perty
has
been
made
out
and
placed
in
the hands
of the eoliector
for
eoilection,
or wherz
such
transfer
nhas
taken
place
prior
to
such
date.
but
the
notice
of
such
transfer
was
not received
by
the
Secretary
in
time
to
make
the bill
or
receipt for
taxes
in
the
name
of
the
new
owaner
the
taxes
shall be paid in the
name of
the
parson
appearing
upon
said
bill
or receipt
for
taxes,
but
the
new
owner
may
pay
the
taxes calied
for
by
said
bill
or receipt
and
require
the.
col-
leetor
of internal
revenue
to make
note
on
the
back
of the
bill
or receipt
to
the
effect
that
the
tax-bill
was paid
by
him.
RECORD
OF TRANSFER
OF
PROPERTY.
Section
48.-livery deed of transfer
of
real
property
or
interesi
therein,
and
every
mortgage
or
other
security
for
debt
sccured
by real
property,
made
on
arnd
~Ster
the first
day
ot July nineteen
hundred
and
t(wenty,
by
any
regis-
trar
of
property
shali
be
separately
and
specially
recorded
by
the
pro-
per registrar.
of property,
without
com-
pensation,
in
a
special
transfer
book
to
be furnished
by the
Secretary,
which
shall
contain
the date
and
-coasideration
of
the transfer
or grant
the
name
and
residenice
of tne
grantee;
the
name
and
residence
of the grantor,
the
name
and
residence
of
the
person
to
whom
said
real
property,
interest
in
or deb: secured
by real
property,
is asseSsed
and
taxed,
and reference
to the archives
or
records
of
such
registrars
.in
which
the
said
properiy
is
more
fully deseribed.
The
said
transfer book
or transcripts
there-
trom
shall
be transmitted
to
the
Secre-
tary whenever
he
may
so direct.
RULES
AND REGULATIONS.
Section
49.
-The
Secreta.y
shall
have
authority
to issue
all
such
regulations,
orders and instructions
as may
be requir-
ed for carrying out
the provisions
of this
Ordinance,
and such
regulations,
orders
and instructions,
when duly ilssued,
shall
have all the force of law.
COMPUTATION
OF INSULAR AND
MUNICI-
,
PAL TAXES.
Section
50.
The
Secretary
shali
com-
pute,
upon
the
assessed
valuation
of the
property
of
each
person
recordec
in the
assessment
records,
the
amount
of taxes
owing
by
such
person
anl
the
said
amount
shall
be entered
with
sufficient
particuiarization
a’xi‘d_ description
of
®he
persoas
aniproperty taxed,upon
suit-
able
recovds..
The
Szeretary
shall
de-
liver
in due tiine,
te the
respective
coi-
lectors
suci
tax receipts
or tax-rolls
as
may
be necessary
and
chavge
said
col-
lectors
therewiin.e
The
“possession
of
sdch
tax
receipts
or..tax
rolls.
for
the
taxes
due
on
any
property
shall be
suffi-
cient
warrant,
on
the part of-any
collec-
tor, for the collection
of said
taxes
and
for the seizure
and
sale of said
propertv,
in
the
manner
hereipafter
provided,
if
said
taxes
be
not
paid within the
period
of
time
provided
in
section
52
of
this
Ordinance.
COLLECTION
DISTRICTS.
Section
51.
-For
the
eollection
of taxes
imposzd
by this
Orifinance
the
sale
of
internal.revenue
siamps,
and
the
collee-
tion
of such
other
taxes
and
the
perfor-
maance
of such
other
duties
as
may
be
authorized
by the
Secretary,
the
Secre-
tary
as
authorized
to
create
such
num-
ber
of
coilection
districts,
as
may
be
necessary
for said
purposes,
and
to
ap-
point
for
each
of said
districis
a
collec-
tor who
shall
receive
such
compensation
as
may
be
fixed by law
and
who
shal
give
hond
tn the Secretary
for the
bene-
fit of the Municipahty
in such
amount
as
the Governmant
may fix, said
bond
o
be
approved
as
to
form
and
execution
by
the
Cecretary,
and
as
to
sufficienecy
of
suresy
by
the
Secretary.
Said
bonds
shall
be given
to cover
the
liability of
such
ceilectors
for
all
revenues
and
moneys
collected
and
raceived
by
them.
'
TAXES
WHEN PAYABLE.
Section
52.-The
taxes
imposed by
sec-
tion 1 of
this- Ordinancesshall
be
paya-
ble
-anpually
in advance
.on
or
before
June thirtieth of each
year.
Such
taxes-
shall become delinquent if not paid with-
in sixty €.
...-atter
the
date
on
whieh
the same
became
due,
and
: the
collec-
tors shall colleet
upon
ail such
delinquent
taxes
an.
additional
sum of one
pereent
of the amount
..thereof for
each
month,
or fraction
thereof;
for which
said
tax-
es
are .so
delinquent
for
the
first
year
and
tbereaiter
at
the
rate
of
2%
per
month.
o
e
A
TAXES WHERE
AND HOW PAID.
Section 53.-No
demand tortaxes
shall
be
necessary,
but it shall be
the duty
of every
person
subject
(o taxation _to
call at the
office of the
proper
collector
and
pay his
taxes
in full, for which pur-
pose
notices
shall be
posted
in
the
most
frequented
publie
piaces
ot the
muni-
cipality not
later
than
the
first
day of
the
monch
that
the said annual
tax is to
be collected.
laxes
shall
be
received
at
the
office
of such
collectors
on all days
from nine antermeridan,
to tweive
noon
and
irom
two postmeridian
to four post-
meridian,
except
Su .days
an legal holi-
days,
Provided,
however,
that the
col-
lectors
may close
their
offices
when it
is necessary
for
them
to
absent
them-
selves
therefromin
order to
serve
no-