on
the
road
between
Fred-
LOSt
eriksted
and
Bethlehem
A
CRANK HANDLFE FOR
A
FORD CAR.
Finder
will
be
rewarded
on leaving
same
at this office.
- NOTICE.
DURiNG my absence
from
the
Island
Lawyer
A.
E.
STAKEMANN
and
JOHN _ALBERT FLEMING of
Est.
La
Reine hold
my Power
of Attorney.
Mountain
House,
St.
Croix,
Ilst
July
1921.
:
GEO.
F.
LATIMER.
PROCEEDINGS
o
THE
FOR
ST.
CROUOIX.
(Continued from yesterday’s
Avis.)
REAL PROPERTY
OMITTED FROM ASSESS-
MENT AND COLLECTION OF TAXES ON
Section
29.—Whenever
the
Secretary
shall
learn
that
amy real
property
liable
to
taxation
has
been
omitted
from
the
assessment
of
property
of any
tax payer
for
any year
or
years,
beginning
with
the year
nineteeen
hundred
and
twenty-
one,
he shall immediately
cause
the same
to
be
assessed
for the
years
for
which
such
property
has
tailed
of
assessment
and
to
add
such
properiy
to
the
tax-
rolis
for such
years
and proceed
to
the
collection
of the
taxes
corresponding
to
the
same,
and
all
surcharges
accru-
ing
on account
of sucn
taxes
not
havinuz
been
paid promptly,
in the same
manner
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APMISSION
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s
and
fi!;)c
General
Entrance........ L
e,
as
he collects
other
taxes
pYovided for by
this Ordinance.
Provided, «owever,
that
where
such
property
has
failed
to
be
assessed
and
taxed
through
no
wilful
default of the
owner,
the Secretary
shall
have
power,
in
his
diseretion
to
remit
the
surcharge,
in
whole
or in part.
In
all cases
where
property,
real
or person-
al,
has
been
assessed
for
any
year
or
years,
but
such
assessment
has
been
made
in other than
the
name of the
true
ow:
_r
or possessor
thereof,
or
has
been
so made
as
to be void, the Secretary
shall
cancel
such
assessment
and
eliminate
the
same
from the tax-roll and withdraw
and cancel
the tax receipts
or bills corres-
ponding
to the
same;
and
shall proceed
to
re-assess
such property
and correct
the
tax-rolls
accordingly,
and
collect
the
taxes
in
so far
as
may
be pending
pay-
ment
correspondiig
to
such
re-assess-
ment
in the same
manner
as
is
herein
provided
for
assessment
and
collection
of
taxes
on real
properfy
that
had
im-
properly failed of assessment.
FAILURE 70 RETURN
ASSESSMENT
SCHE-
DULE.
Section
30.--
Any
person
who
wilfully
fails
to fill out
and
return
the
assess-
ment
schedule
when
so required
by
an
assessor,
within the
period
of ten
days
after
the delivery of the
same,
shall
be
deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor.
EXAMINATION OF PERSONS.
Section
31.—1 n listing or
valuing
the
property
of persons
who have
made
no
return
of the same,
as
provided in
Sec
tions
26 and
30
of
this
Ordinance,
the
assessor
is authorized
to examine,
under
oath
or
affirmation,
any
parson
whom
he
may
believe
has
knewledge
of
the
amount
and
value of szid property;
but
tor
the taking or administering
of
said
oath
or affirmation
no
charge
shall
be
made.
OATHS,
AUTHORITY TO ADMINISTE%.
Section
32.—The
Secretary
and
the
several
assessors
are
lereby
authorized
to administer
the required
oath
or affirm-
ation
to any
person,
or
persons,
listing
and valuing their property for the taking
of
which oath
or
affirmation
no
charge
shall be made.
Awy of said officials who
shall
make
any charge
for administering
such oath
or affirmation shall be
deemed
guilty of a misdefneanor.
SCHEDULES,
DISPOSITION
OF.
Section
33.—As fast
as the
assessment
orgrevision of the assessment
of property
as
herein
provided is
made,
or
at
such
intervals
of fime
as
may
be fixed by
the
Secretary
each
assessor
shall
promptly
transmit
the
completed
schedules
to
the
Secretary
who
shall
cause
the
same
to
be examined,
arranged
and delivered
to
the
permanent
Board
of
Review
and
Equalization,
as provided in Section
34 o#
this Ordinance.
;s
BOARD
OF
REVIEW
AND EQUALIZATION,
MEMBERS
OF.
Section
34 —For
the purpose
cf revis-
ing
the
assessment
or
reassessment
of
real
and personal
property,
as
provided
by
this Ordinance,
and for
the
purpose
of passing
upon all
claims made
by tax-
payers
in respect
to
the
assessment
of
their
properties,
there shall
be
a perma-
nent
Board
of Review
and
Equahzation
composed
of the Secretary
and
two other
persons,
citizens
of
the
Municipality,
versed
in matters
pertaining
to the value
of property
in the Municipality.
APPOINTED.
TERM
oOrF
OFFICE.
CoM-
PENSATION.
OATH.
QUORUM
(HAIR-
MAN.
Said
two
persons
sh%l
be
appointed
by
the Governor,
on
or
before
the
first
day
of January
of each
year,
shall
hold
office for one
year, a(;)d
until
theiv sucd
cessorg.
°""
-vinted
and
_qu: lify,
an
shall %é’é’éwe
such
compé;?a%?an'
as
may
be
fixed by the Governor,
but
not to
ex-
ceed
ten
dollars
for each
day’s
attend-
ance
at the
meetings
ot the board,
and
actual
cost
of transportation
necessarily
incurred.
Kach of the wembers
of
said
board
shall
take an
oath
fairly and
im-
partially
to pass
apon
questions
coming
before
them according
to law, and
any
two of them
shall
constitute
a
guorum.
The
Secretary
shall
be ex-officio chair-
man of said board.
COMPLAINTS TO BOARD OF REVIEW, How
MADE,
:
Section
35. —Any
person
agaqrieved
by
the
action of the assessor
in relation
to
the
valnation
of his
property
may
make
written
complaint
tnereof
to
the
said
Board
of
Review
and
Equalization,
which eomplaint
shall
consist o a
speci-
fic
statementyof
the
particuiar
errors
complained of,\with
such
facts
as
may
lead
to their
correction:
Provided,
how-
ever,
that
no
such
complaint
or
claim
shall
be considered
by said
Board
unless
it
is presented
within fifteen days
after