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to act as a jury of inquest of damages, to whom the sheriff shall administer an oath to truly and justly value the land sought to be condemned, or the damages, the owner thereof shall sustain for the use of the same ; and at the same time the sheriff shall summon the owner or owners, or his or her or their legal representative or agent, by personal notice in writing, or by leaving a copy iof such notice at the usual place of residence of the party at least five days previous to the meeting of said jury; or if the owner or owners be nen-residents, then by mailing a copy of said notice to the respective address of such owner or owners at least ten days previous to the meeting of said jury; the jury shall then proceed to value the premises sought to be taken, assess the value of the land, or the damages the owner may sustain for the use thereof, reduce their inquisition into writing and severally sign the same, which verdict or inquisitions of the jury, together with said summons and his return thereon, and all other papers that come to his hands in these proceedings, the said sheriff shall return to said clerk of said circuit court of said ^ county, and the same shall be confirmed by said circuit court at 'its first terra after said inquest; either party to such proceeding shall have the right of appeal to the Supreme Court, under such .regulations as are prescribed by law for appeals in other cases from the,circuit court, and the party against whom final judgment may be rendered in the superior court shall pay all costs of the proceedings ab initio ; for the services rendered as above the said clerk shall reccive three dollars, the sheriff six dollars and the jurors one dollar per day each, all of which shall be . paid out of the treasury of said city.
Sec.’ 46.; Be it further enacted, That the Board of Mayor and i Aldermen of said city, in addition to the jurisdiction hereinbefore conferred upon them over roads and highways in said city limits, sbp.ll have and possess entire and exclusive control and urisdiction over all front or beach banks in said corporated limits;, they shall have power tc direct and require any proper-ty-holder who owns the front or beach to keep the same in constant repair at his own expense, and in case the same shall at any , time become damaged from the effect of storms or washes, they shall require and direct the owner thereof to repair the same at his own expense, by a certain time or date, to be desjgnated by said Board, and if he shall fail or refuse to repair the same when’so ordered and directed, he shall be subject to a fine of not more than fifty dollars, and the Board may have the same repaired at the expense of the party owning it, and recover the expense from said owner by suit to be brought before the Mayor, when the amount is less than one hundred and fifty dollars, or other court having jurisdiction, and upon judgment being: obtained, so much of the lands and premises of the owner so refusing to repair his bank as may be necessary shall be gold by the proper officer to pay said judgment ancl all costs, or in case the roads
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become damaged, narrow or impassable on account of washing *
away and non repair of the said front or beaches aforesaid, the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, upon the continued refusal of the owner to repair the same, may elect to move the road further from the waters’ edge, and to this end may remove all obstructions on the side opposite the beach and use so much there* g, of as shall give a public Btreet of the same uniform width as the p' rest of the front street; provided, that said land so contemplated to be used as a new road as aforesaid, shall be subject to the same proceedings as directed in section 46 of this act. X Sec. 47. Be it further enacted, That the Assessor and Collector shall preserve in his office all the records and proceedings had therein, and for his services as Tax Collector he shall receive a commission of five per cent, on all taxes actually collectsd by him, to be retained by him monthly out of his collections, and reported to the Secretary of the city; he shall pay over all m . tuxes collected to the City Treasurer within thirty days after ■ the first day of October in every year, and monthly thereafter,
E^’and at each payment shall swear that the sum paid over in money.or warrant is all that he lias collected to that time; he shall make report to the Secretary of the city within thirty days after the first of October and monthly thereafter, if he has not ! collected any faxes, and shall make oath to such report; and if he shall not report to the Secretary as aforesaid, and pay over to the City Treasurer within ten days after the thirty-first day of j? October, and of the last day of each month thereafter, during f-~ the time of collecting taxes, he shall be subject to a fine not ex-If-: ceeding fifty dollars, but the Secretary after notice to such '>	^ '
fc, Collector and continued failure by him to report and pay over a#
above provided, shall report such failure to the Board of Mayor/’, y ^ and Aldermen, \yho shall remove such Tax Collector from office-	’.
arin the mode and manner as provided for in this act; it shall bo	/
‘ the duty of said Tax Collector to present bis cash book, which	\ ’’V
, he is hereby required to keep, V: the Board of Mayor and Alder-	*'
*	men when required, and upon final settlement with the Secre- ,	4
S * tary said book shall be produced before said Board, and they ,'
■	shall endorse on it the fact and the date of such presentation, v',
iand that they have examined the entries it contains of payments P made to the City Treasurer, and that such entries are correct;	k	’
and such book «hall remain in the office of said Collector as iv >' • ^ t ' record of the t.ffice when he goes out of the office, and said f Assessor and Collector shall perform all such other duties aa-:<■ shall be provided by ordinance.	■	*
" Sec. 48. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the •
= . Treasurer of the city to Ijeep regular accounts of the receipts and S?" and expenditures of all funds of the city coming into his hands and ~ all the funds or moneys due to itor from it; he shall receive andi *. ■ -j/
■	keep the moneys of the city and disburse the same agreeably to the	*
:: order of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen ; he shall once in each , f
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