Chap. 78.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 32 of
the Code of 1873, in relation to the assessment of the lands of the
commonwealth,

Approved April 2, 1679.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section five
of chapter thirty-two of the Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

65. As soon as the assessors snall have completed the as-
sessments in their respective counties, districts or corporations,
they shall make out three copies of the assessment, in the form
in which the land-books are now made out, and shall certify on
oatn that no lots or lands are omitted, and that there are no
crrors op its face; and of those copies so certified one copy
shall be filed and preserved in the clerk’s office of the county
or corporation, and another copy forwarded by mail or other
safe conveyance to the auditor of public accounts at Richmond,
and another copy shall be delivered to the commissioner of the
revenue of the county, district or corporation, on or before tle
first day of December in the year in which the assessment is
made: provided that, for good cause shown, the judges of the
county and corporation courts of this commonwealth may ex-
tend the time of making the returns of said assessment to the
first day of January next succeeding. Each assessor who shail
fail to comply with any requisition of this section shall for-
feit all right to compensation for his services. It shall be
the duty of the auditer of public accounts, as soon as
practicable after the passage of this act, to prepare proper
forms of returns, so arranged as to show the lands and lots in
each commissioner of the revenue’s district separately, with
blanks to be filled up by the assessors, and cause the same,
with proper instructions, to be printed, and forward a sufficient
number of copies for the use of the assessors to the clerks of
the courts of the several counties and corporations.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.