Chap. 159.—An ACT to Amend Section 81 of an Act approved March 19th,
1872, entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act prescribing the
Duties and Compensation of certain Township Officers, approved July
11th, 1870, and Acts amendatory thereof.

Approved March 11, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section eighty-
one of an act approved March nineteen, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act pre-
scribing the duties and compensation of certain township
officers, approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy,
and acts amendatory thereof, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 81. Each township collector shall, immediately after the
first day of December of each year, proceed to collect, by levy
or otherwise, as now provided by law, all taxes and county
levies in his hands; and he shall pay over to the treasurer on
the first day of each month thereafter such sums as he shall
have collected in the meantime; and shall, on the first day of
March of each year, make his final settlement with the county
treasurer for all taxes and county levies collected by him ; and
in his settlement with the treasurer, if made by the first day
of March, shall have credit for all the taxes and county levies
returned by him and certified as insolvent by the court of his
county, and a list of which has been posted on the front door.
of the court-house, but the court shall not make such certifi-
cate except upon certificate of the township board or proof of
the fact by at least two competent witnesses, and until the list
of such insolvent taxes and levies is verified by the oath of
such collector, as similar lists are now required to be verified
by the thirty-sixth chapter of the Code as amended by an
act approved day of , eighteen hundred and seventy-
two; and said collector shall, on the first day of September, and
the first day of December, and the fifteenth day of March, of
each year, pay over to the township clerk all township levies
received by him ; and in his final settlement with the township
clerk, if made by the fifteenth day of March, shall have credit
for all township levies returned by him and certified as insolvent
by the said township board or two justices of the peace thereof,
and posted at the voting place or places in said township ; but
the said supervisor or said justices shall not make such certi-
ficate until such insolvent list be verified by the affidavit of the
collector, as required in the case of other insolvent taxes and
levies.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.