1606 ARTICLE 6.

sioners on or before the first day of August in each and every year, and!
which any person interested may inspect without charge; and if anyone
shall feel aggrieved at the valuation and assessment of his property by
said assessor or assessors, he may appeal from such valuation to the said.
Commissioners at any time within two weeks from the return of said
assessment, and upon good cause being shown, the said Commissioners
may make any alteration in said assessment which they may deem proper
and right, or take from and add to the same; and for the purpose of hear-
ing and determining the appeal provided for by this section, the said
Commissioners shall give five clays' previous notice of time and place of
hearing such appeals by advertisement, to be posted at the postoffice and
at one other public and conspicuous place in said town.

1906, ch. 87, sec. 18.

256. All property, real, personal and mixed, bonds, stocks and private
securities of all kinds and description whatsoever, within the limits of the
town of Goldsboro, or owned by the inhabitants thereof, and not perma-
nently located beyond the limits thereof, by law liable to be valued and
assessed and chargeable with taxes in this State, shall be valued at its
cash value and chargeable according to such valuation with the public
assessment for the use and purposes of the said corporation; any assessor
or assessors appointed by the Commissioners of said town shall have the
power and authority to require the owner or owners, possessors or claim-
ants of any property made liable to valuation and assessment, to give him
or them a full and accurate statement in writing of his, her or their prop-
erty as may be necessary to enable the assessor or assessors to ascertain
the value thereof, the same to be under the oath of such person or per-
sons, to be administered by the assessor or one of the assessors.

1906, ch. 87, sec. 19.

257. If any person or persons shall wilfully refuse, or after ten days'
notice shall neglect to render such statement of his, her or their property
or effects in any part thereof, as he, she or they are required to furnish,
upon the requisition of the assessor or assessors for said corporation, the
said assessor or assessors shall then upon his or their own knowledge, and
upon the best information he or they can obtain, value the property of such
person or persons to the utmost sum he or they believe the same to be worth
in cash; and in his or their return of said valuation, he or they shall certify
the refusal or neglect of the owner or owners, possessor or claimants of
such property, and the said Commissioners shall assess such person ac-
cording to the sum so estimated, and the same shall be considered as the
assessment until altered by the said Commissioners, sitting to hear appeals
and to correct errors.

1906, ch. 87, sec. 20.

258. The president, cashier, or other proper officer of banking or other
private corporations whose stock, standing in the name of any individual
or company on the books of said bank or corporation, is liable to be valued