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have the amount so paid, with interest at the rate of six per centum
per annum deducted from the mortgage debt. *

1896, ch. 120.

171. It shall be the duty of the State tax commissioner to
prepare and have printed at the expense of the State, a full and
complete form or schedule of all kinds of real and personal prop-
erty, which are now or may at any time be subject to taxation
under the laws of this State, to which he may add such interrog-
atories as he may deem proper for the purpose of securing a full
disclosure of all such property, and he may from time to time
change the forms of schedule or interrogatories or make such,
additions thereto as he may deem proper, and the State tax com-
missioner shall cause the said forms of schedules and interroga-
tories to be delivered to the boards of control and review to carry
out the provisions of this article.

Mode and Measure of Assessment and Taxation.

1896, ch. 120.

173. It shall be the duty of the said assessors appointed
under the provisions of this article, immediately upon entering
upon the performance of their duties to deliver or cause to be
delivered as far as practicable or to send by mail to each and
every person in their assessment districts who shall own any real
or personal property, subject to taxation under the laws of this
State, the forms of schedules and interrogatories for real and
personal property provided in section 171, together with the
notice to said person or persons requiring him or her to have
filled out and ready to file with said assessor within twenty days
after the date of receipt or the mailing of said schedules and
interrogatories a complete return upon said schedule of all the
real and personal property owned by said person or persons, and
subject to taxation under the provisions of this article. Every
taxable person making such schedule shall specify as far as may
be practicable the name or names of the tracts or parcels of land
so described, and the number of acres or quantity of lands in
each, and the value per acre, if in the counties; and such other

*The sections of the general assessment act of 1896, ch. 180, which nave been
completely executed, are omitted.