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Duties of Collector of Assessments.

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case of any assessment, so returned, he shall have reason to believe that items have been returned as unpaid on which ⚫payments have been made, or that the demands for payment have not been made as provided by law, to notify the Street Commissioner thereof; and it shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner thereupon, with the consent of the Comptroller, to cause notices to be served upon each of the person or persons required by law to pay such items returned as arrears, that payment is due thereon, and that the property so returned is liable to sale; and the Street Commissioner shall make the Comptroller a detailed report of all such cases in which notices are served.

§ 144. The Collector of Assessments shall cause to be kept a ledger, on which shall be entered, under the title of each assessment received for collection, the amount thereof, the date of the confirmation, the name of the deputy having it in charge for collection, the amount of principal and interest returned by the deputy as collector thereon, and when returned, and the amounts paid to the Chamberlain by the collector, and when paid. Accounts shall also be kept in such ledger, with each of the Deputy Collectors, in which they shall be severally charged with the amounts of the assessment lists placed in their hands for collection; and accredited with the amounts paid to the Collector of Assessments, and the amount of unpaid assessments returned in accordance with section 141, as arrears.

Assessments § 145. Each of the Deputy Collectors shall keep a cash book, on which shall be entered, immediately on the receipt of each payment on any assessment, the ward, and the map, or the block number of each lot on which payment is made, the name of the person making the same, and the date thereof, and the amount of the assessment paid, and the interest collected thereon.

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§ 146. If any collections shall be made on any assessment Duties of Colby the Collector of Assessments, all the provisions of this sessments. ordinance in respect to the books to be kept, and the entries, returns and affidavits to be made by the Deputy Collectors, shall also be applicable to the Collector of Assessments in regard to all collections made by him.

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§ 147. All the records, books, accounts and vouchers Records, herein before provided to be kept in this bureau, shall be for held as appertaining thereto, and as the property of the Corporation; except that each Deputy Collector may retain one of the triplicate vouchers for payments made by him to the Collector of Assessments, and the Collector of Assessments may retain one of the triplicate vouchers for payments made by him to the Chamberlain.

§ 148. A receipt shall be given by the Collector or Ibid. Deputy Collector, receiving any payment on account of any assessment, to the person making the same; on which shall be stated the name of the person making the payment, and the date and amount thereof; the title of the assessment, and the ward, and the map or block number of each lot, on which payment is made; and every such receipt shall have printed conspicuously thereon, the following words:

NOTICE.

"The liens for which payment has been made, may be discharged of record, in the office of the Comptroller, on the presentation of this receipt to the Clerk of Arrears."

§149. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of Arrears on Ibid. presentation of any such receipt, to countersign the same; and to enter, in books to be kept in his bureau for that purpose, the title of the assessment for which such receipt was given, the ward, and the map, or the block number of

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each lot, on which payment was made, as specified in such receipt; the name of the person making such payment, and the date and amount thereof; and the date of the presentation of such receipt to the Clerk of Arrears, and the name of the person by whom presented. And it shall be the duty of the Clerk of Arrears, once in each week, to cause the entries so made, to be compared with the accounts of the Collector of Assessments, of moneys paid to the Chamberlain, filed in the office of the Comptroller.

$150. The Collector and the Deputy Collector shall each tors of As receive, as compensation for their services, an equal part of two and one-half per cent. on all items of assessments collected by the bureau during their term of office, and of two per cent. on all unpaid items of assessments returned during their term of office, to the Bureau of Arrears, for which two personal demands for payment have been made by the Collector or Deputy Collectors on the persons required by law to pay the same. No moneys, however collected on any assessment, shall be retained on account of such fees or compensation; but the amount of fees. thereon shall be paid monthly, on the requisition of the Street Commissioner, to the extent of any moneys which may have been collected, and paid into the city treasury, upon such assessment, or interest moneys accruing thereon. No moneys collected on any assessment shall be retained on account of the compensation herein provided; but such compensation shall be paid by warrant of the Comptroller, on the requisition of the Street Commissioner.

Assessments

Amount of § 151. No assessment for a less amount than five dollars, shall hereafter be made on any lot, for any improvement; the assessment for which is required by law to be confirmed by the Common Council.

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§ 152. Whenever in the proper administration of the Employment duties of his office, the Street Commissioner may require veyors. the services of the City Surveyor, he shall have authority to employ such one of the City Surveyors, as he may ap prove, for that purpose.

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§ 153. No City Surveyor employed by the Street Depart- Compensa ment, shall receive compensation therefor, at a greater ver rate than as follows; nor shall any surveyor's bill be paid, partment. unless the same be first certified to by the Street Commissioner for a preliminary survey, in regulating a street or avenue, or for making a country road, for the first line of level, three cents per lineal foot, measuring through the centre of the street, avenue or road; and for every additional line of levels, one cent per lineal foot, to be measured in the same manner. For a preliminary survey in filling sunken lots, one dollar and fifty cents per lot, of two thousand five hundred square feet.

For grading, when done alone, five cents per lineal foot; measuring through the centre of the street or

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For grading, and setting curb and gutter, when done under the same contract, eight cents per lineal foot; measuring through the centre of the street or avenue.

For grading, setting curb and gutter and flagging, when done under the same contract, eleven cents per lineal foot; measuring through the centre of the street or avenue.

For setting curb and gutter alone, three cents per lineal foot; along the line of the work done.

For setting curb and gutter and flagging, when done under the same contract, but not in connection with grad

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ing, four and one-half cents per lineal foot, along the line of curb.

For flagging, when done alone, three cents per lineal foot; along the line of work done.

For setting stakes, making final survey, &c., in the filling of sunken lots, one dollar and fifty cents per lot of two thousand five hundred square feet.

For fencing, including the priliminary survey, three cents per foot.

For making a country road, ten cents per lineal foot; measuring through the centre of the road.

For establishing a new grade line, one cent per lineal foot; measuring along the line.

For assessment list and maps, three cents per lineal foot of map front; it being understood that the Surveyor shall, in every case, furnish a duplicate list and map, without additional charge.

A surveyor, employed by the Street Commissioner to make a survey for public slips, or other purposes, the compensation for which is not otherwise provided for, shall receive such compensation as shall be certified by the Street Commissioner.

Compensa- § 154. In all cases, when the same is required, a protraction, or profile, and such drawings and calculations, shall De be furnished to the Street Commissioner, as may be required by him, without extra compensation. A Surveyor shall be entitled to receive payment for a preliminary survey, on the completion of the same to the satisfaction of the Street Commissioner. He shall receive payment for the other services mentioned in this paragraph, on the completion of the work, and its acceptance by the Street Department.

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