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Wednesday in May, to be determined by ordinance of said
Mayor and City Council, and said Mayor and City Council
shall provide by ordinance for the transfer of voters on said
registration list from one ward to another, where the resi-
dence of such voters shall have been so transferred.
51. Whenever the Mayor and City Council shall levy any
tax, they shall cause to be made out au alphabetical list of
the persons chargeable therewith, and shall affix the respec-
tive sums to be collected from each person, and shall specify
the amount levied for general purposes, the amount levied
for interest, and the amount levied for the sinking fund pro-
vided for the redemption of the bonds and funded debt of said
city, as separate items, in accordance with the laws and ordi-
nances of said city now existing, and annex to the said list a
warrant to the Collector to collect the same; and the said
Collector shall, within sixty days after the receipt of such
warrant and list, render to each person named therein, an
account of his, her or their tax, and may, unless the same be
paid within thirty days after the delivery of such account,
collect the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels
of the delinquent, and said Collector shall account for the
amount of such assessment with the Mayor and City Council,
and shall make monthly returns and payments in the man-
ner directed by said Council, of all taxes collected by him,
under penalty of double the amount thereof.
53. The Collector of said city may make all collections
required of him at any time within the year for which he
was appointed Collector, and on all taxes remaining unpaid
for three months after they shall have been levied, he shall
charge and collect interest from the date of the levy, at the
rate of six per cent, per annum, to be accounted for with said
tax.
54. Wherever the word "Bailiff" occurs in the Act or
Acts hereby amended, the word "Collector" shall be substi-
tuted in lieu thereof.
55. The said Mayor and City Council, be and they are
hereby, authorised and directed to ascertain the amount of,
and fund the floating debt of said city now existing; they
shall issue for said purpose the bonds of said city, bearing six
per cent, interest, payable in twenty years from the date
thereof, and redeemable at any time within five years after
date, at the pleasure of said corporation, in the same manner
as is now provided for the redemption of the present bonded
debt of said city.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts of
Acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be and the
same are hereby, repealed.
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