Chap. 9.—An ACT to Provide for the Collection of the Revenue of the
City of Norfolk, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

Approved December 28, 1871.

Whereas, in consequence of the failure of the treasurer of
the city of Norfolk to give bond and qualify in the mode and
within the time prescribed by law, and therefore he could not
collect the revenue of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-
one, due from said city, in the manner required by law, prior
to the first day of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-
one: therefore,

o¢ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the treasurer

s of the said city of Norfolk be and he is hereby authorized and

,. directed to receive, within sixty days from the passage of this
act, from all persons assessed with taxes in said city of Norfolk,
the taxes due from them for the year eighteen hundred and
seventy-one, without adding the five per centum as prescribed

| for collectors in cases where taxes have not been paid prior to
the first day of September and turned over to the collectors.

2. At the expiration of the said sixty days it shall be the

» duty of the said treasurer to make up a statement of all moneys
collected by him on account of taxes, which statement shall be
verified by affidavit, and shall be rendered immediately to the
auditor of public accounts, by said treasurer, and he shall
thereupon pay into the treasury the amount shown to be due

1. by such statement; and if he fail to pay over the same, he

shall forfeit his commissions on so much of said balance as he
may fail so to pay over.

r 3. It shall be the duty of the sergeant of the said city of
Norfolk, at the expiration of the sixty days aforesaid, to receive
from the treasurer of the said city of Norfolk, all taxes for the
year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, then unpaid, and to

1 account for the same by the first day of June thereafter in the
manner prescribed in the act relating to the duties and com-
pensation of certain township officers, approved July eleventh,
eighteen hundred and seveuty.

| 4 This act shall be in force from its passage.