Trustees may correct tax rolls. street commissioner shall make return thereof to the trustees of said village, who shall thereupon proceed to enforce said liens in the manner provided in section eight, nine and ten of this title, except that the return of said commissioners shall authorize said trustees to proceed immediately to advertise said property, as provided in said section eight; or said trustees may collect said unpaid taxes of the occupants of said real estate by action or otherwise. § 13. The trustees shall have full power in all cases to mistakes in correct the assessment and tax roll, and ward rolls and assessments, whenever it shall be made to appear to them that any mistake has been made therein; and they shall May correct have full power and authority to correct the description of the real estate therein, and to alter all necessary descriptions of the real estate therein when a proper description thereof has been omitted by the assessors, or when the description thereof by the assessors shall appear to the trustees to be in any way defective. description of lands. Village clerk, and his duties. TITLE VII. OF OFFICERS-THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the clerk of said village to keep all the books and papers belonging to said village; to attend all the meetings of the trustees; to keep a journal and record of the proceeding of said trustees at every meeting thereof; to record all by-laws, ordinances, rules and regulations, made and passed by said trustees; to receive, file and preserve all returns of the elections of village officers, and to record the same, all reports of the treasurer, all bonds of village officers, with the approvals thereof, all returns of votes taken on questions submitted to the electors and inhabitants of said village for approval or disapproval, and all other papers required to be filed by the provisions of this act, or by the direction of the trustees; 'to attend all elections of village officers, and at votings on any questions submitted as aforesaid, and to keep a poll-list of all persons voting at any such election, under the direction of the presiding officer; to put and post all notices in the manner and in the places prescribed and directed by this act, except those pertaining particularly to the office of assessor and street commissioner, or by any by laws or ordinances of said trustees; to serve written notices of the election on all officers elected under this act as soon thereafter as may be; to keep an accurate account of all orders, and the amount thereof, drawn by said trustees on the treasurer, in an order book to be kept by him for that purpose; to keep the corporate seal of said village; and to perform all the duties required by this act, or by the trustees, or by the by-laws or ordinances of said village. Copies of all Copies of papers filed in his office, and transcripts from the records records and of the proceedings of said board of trustees, duly certified read in eviby the clerk under the corporate seal, shall be evidence in all courts and places in like manner as if the originals were produced. Said trustees may allow to said clerk Compensa such compensation for his services as they shall deem clerk. proper, which compensation, when fixed, shall not be reduced so as to affect any clerk then in office. papers, how dence. tion of to receive burse from § 2. The treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging Treasurer, to the village, and give receipts for the same, and keep and disan accurate account of all the receipts and expenditures. moneys. All moneys, except the highway moneys provided in sub- Moneys, division thirty of section three, title five of this act, shall how drawn be drawn from the treasury in pursuance of an order of treasury. the board of trustees, signed by the president or presid ing officer of the board, and countersigned by the clerk, under the corporate seal. The books and entries of the treasurer and the order book of the clerk shall be open for inspection of any elector of said village at all reasonable hours. The treasurer shall exhibit to the board of Annual trustees, at least fifteen days before the annual election in financial each year, a full account of all the receipts and expenditures after the date of the last annual report, and also the state of the treasury, which account shall be filed in the office of the clerk. The treasurer shall keep a sep- Separate arate account of all moneys raised for highway purposes, highway and which shall be paid him by the street commissioners moneys. of said village, and pay out the same on the order of either of said commissioners, signed by the commissioner issuing the same, under the corporate seal of said village. The treasurer shall receive such compensation for his services as the trustees may allow, not exceeding the compensation allowed to county treasurers for similar services. report, account of Compensa tion. their §3. The assessors shall discharge and perform the Assessors, duties required of them by this act, and, in addition, powers and those which may be required of them by the trustees of duties. said village and not inconsistent with their office, and tion. Compensa shall receive such compensation for their services as the trustees may allow, not exceeding the compensation allowed to town assessors for similar services. Street com to give notice of receipt of ward rolls. 4. The street commissioner of each ward, upon missioners, receiving the ward roll provided in section four, title six of this act, shall forthwith give notice to all persons and corporations mentioned in said roll of the receipt of the same, and of the time and place in the ward for which said commissioner shall have been appointed where said persons and corporations may pay the tax therein levied and assessed against them, by posting notices thereof in at least three public places in said ward ten days before the time designated therein for receiving said taxes. Said notices shall also state that said commissioner will attend at the time and place therein specified, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon, to receive said taxes; and it shall be the duty of said commissioner to so attend, and to receive all such taxes as shall be voluntarily paid him; but he shall not demand or receive any fee therefor, except as hereinafter provided. To make complaint of non-payment of highway tax. Justice, to issue sum mons to delinquents. Service thereof. § 5. If any person or corporation upon whom such tax is imposed shall neglect or refuse to pay his, her or their said tax, at said time and place, it shall be the duty of said commissioner, within six days thereafter, or within such further time as said trustees shall permit, by resolution duly entered in the records of said village, to make complaint on oath to any justice of the peace of the town in which said village or any part thereof is situated, showing a full compliance with the provisions of the last preceding section by said commissioner, the default of said person or corporation, and the amount of the tax unpaid by them, or either of them, as the same shall appear in said ward roll. 6. The justice to whom such complaint shall be made shall forthwith issue a summons, directed to the police constable of said village, or to any constable of the county of Saratoga, requiring him to summon such delinquent to appear forthwith before such justice, at some place within the corporate limits of said village, to be specified in the summons, to show cause why he should not be fined according to law for such neglect or refusal; which summons shall be served personally, or by leaving a copy thereof at his personal abode; provided that, if such delinquent be a corporation, such summons may be served by delivering a copy thereof to the president, or other head of the corporation, secretary, cashier, treasurer, superintendent, a director or managing agent of said corporation. 87. If, upon the return of such summons, no sufficient Justice may cause shall be shown to the contrary, the justice shall impose fine. impose a fine on such person or corporation, equal in amount to the sum of tax mentioned in the complaint in such proceedings, and shall forthwith issue a warrant Warrant under his hand and seal, directed to the constable provided collection in section six of this title, commanding him to levy such thereof. fine, with the costs of the proceedings, of the goods and chattels of such delinquent. for levy and to collect § 8. The constable to whom such warrant shall be Constable directed shall forthwith collect the moneys therein men- fines. tioned, and shall pay the same, when collected, to the justice who issued the warrant, who is hereby required to Justice to pay the fine to the commissioner who entered the com- commisplaint. pay same to sioner. not to apply § 9. Section five, six, seven and eight of this title shall Provisions not apply to taxes on the real estate of non-resident to non-resi owners, nor to the collection thereof. § 10. Every fine received by said commissioners shall be set off against the tax of the person or corporation on whom such fine was imposed. And all taxes received under and by virtue of said ward rolls, and every such fine, shall be paid by said commissioners, within twentyfour hours after receiving the same, to the treasurer of said village, and his receipt taken therefor. dents. Taxes and paid to treasurer. fines, to be missioners, for labor § 11. It shall be the duty of said street commissioners, Street comunder the direction and control of the trustees of said vil- to make and lage, to make and keep in repair all streets, highways, repair gutters, cross-walks, sewers, ditches and sluices in their sewers, respective road districts, and to do or cause to be done walks, etc. all necessary labor, and to furnish or cause to be furnished all materials necessary for that purpose. An account in Accounts items for all such labor and materials, or either of them, and matershall be made on oath, by the person or persons per- made and forming or furnishing the same, and presented to the certified. street commissioner of the district or ward where such labor was performed or materials used, and, if correct, said commissioner shall annex thereto his order, under the corporate seal, and subscribed by the commissioner issuing the same, on the treasurer of said village requiring him to pay the sum or amount of such account, out of the ials, how Delivery of list of elect ors to as sessors, annually. Annual return of ward rolls Statement of taxes collected, and of unpaid taxes. Compensa tion, and how paid. highway tax, to the person claiming the same, or to the 12. The street commissioner of each ward in said vil- 13. Each street commissioner shall, at least fifteen days before the annual meeting in said village, return to trustees. his ward roll to the trustees thereof, and shall, at the same time, make return on oath to said trustees of the amount of taxes collected by virtue of said roll, the amount paid to the treasury, with his receipts therefor, the date of every order issued by said commissioner on the treasurer, the amount thereof, and to whom payable, and the amount of taxes unpaid and against whom assessed. Each of said commissioners shall be entitled to receive for his services such sum as the trustees shall direct, not exceeding two dollars per day for every day actually spent in the performance and discharge of his duties, as in this act provided, to be paid out of the highway tax; and said commissioners may, from time to time, present to allowed and said trustees an account in items of their said services up to the time of presenting the same, duly verified, which account, if correct, shall be indorsed "allowed" by said trustees, and subscribed by then, whereupon said commissioners may proceed to collect the amount thereof, as is provided in section eleven of this title. Accounts, how collected. Village collector, his duties. $14. The collector of said village shall exercise and powers and perform all the powers and duties required of him by this act, and, in addition thereto, such other as may be prescribed by the trustees and not inconsistent with his office, and shall receive therefor the compensation herein before allowed. Police con stable, his duties, fiabilities. 15. The police constable shall have the same power. and authority, and be subject. to the same liabilities and powers and obligations, except as herein otherwise provided, as stables elected in any of the towns of Saratoga county. It shall be his duty to obey such orders as he may from time to time receive from the trustees of said village regarding his duty; to report to the president all violations of the corporation ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations, with the names and residences of the witnesses; to preserve the public peace; to be vigilant for 1 |