Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1911 — Law Provides for Redemption Of Road Tax Receipts by Trustees. [ARTICLE]

Law Provides for Redemption Of Road Tax Receipts by Trustees.

Hereafter those holding road tax receipts need run no risk in their redemption. If they forget to turn them in on the first installment of their taxes, they can call on the trustee of the township in which the receipt was issued and secure the money. An emergency act was passed in February that reads as follows: “That whenever any road receipt for work done in lieu of taxes shall not have been presented for payment the year the work was done, or at the collection of the first installment of taxes of the year following, or before the regular settlement of the county treasurer with the township trustees, when all road funds remaining in the hands of such treasurer are paid over to the said trustees, then upon presentation of such road tax receipt or receipts, by the owner of t£e land for which said road tax was worked out, and for which said receipt was give) to the trustee of the township from which the same was issued and wherein such work was done, such township trustee shall upon presenting of such road receipts to him, by the holder of the same, take up, redeem, and pay such road receipts out of any funds available In his hands.” Section 2 provides “All payments heretofore made by township trustees

in good faith, in redeeming such road receipts, and same out of road moneys in hfe hands are hereby legalized and rendered valid.”