Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1905 — All Delinquants Must Pay The Penalty [ARTICLE]

All Delinquants Must Pay The Penalty

The following letter to County Treasurer Nichols explains itself. To The County Treasurer:Dear Sir-

There is a custom on the part of the County Treasurers in some of the Counties of Indiana, to continue to collect taxes after the first Monday in May and after the first Monday in November, without adding the penalty provided for in Section 8570 Burns’ Statutes, Revision 1901, and Acts of 1897, page 162. This custom is wrong, and after obis date all County Treasurers must close there duplicates for the collection of the first installment ol taxes after the first Monday in May and for the collection of the second installment ’after the first Monday in November and cake no taxes thereafter without ad ding and at the same time collecting the penalty as provided in the above named section.

It is the intention of the State ( Auditor to have this section en forced; and any County Treasurer, in the future, violating this lawwill be forced personally to pay the penalties, which he has failed to collect, as provided in said see tion, from the Taxpayer. After the first Monday in May and after the first Monday in November of each year, the Treasurer will, as soon as possible, turn over the duplicate to the County Auditor so as to enable him at once to (prepare his settlement sheet for use of the Treasurer in accounting to the State. The Treasurer will be required to make settlement with the State by the 15th, of June and by the 31st, oi December of each year as provided bylaw, in future in remitting money to tne State make all checks and drafts payable to the Treasure! of the State. Very respectively, WARren Bigler, Auditor of State.