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LANCASTER, WIS:
Tuesday Evening, Feb. 5, IBS' 7.
J. C. COVER. Editor & Proprietor.
M. P. RINDLAVB, Assistant Editob.
New Tax Laws.
A bill is before the legislature for
considerably changing the for
assessing property, and tor the col
lectiornof taxes and disposal of delin
quent property.
The bill is the product of a com
mittee appointed under a law of the
legislature of 1866, lawyers and land
agents doubtle. s, for re forming the
entire system. It makes county
Clerks the assessors—who may ar
range districts and appoint agents.
There are some very curious pro
visions, some of them like the late
laws of Michigan which required a
special meeting of the legislature to
overhaul and amend ami finally to
repeal entirely. This proposed law
provides, among other very cunning
legal tactics, that the lands of delin
quents may be deeded without re
quiring the County Clerk to adver
tise the unredeemed lists, which
would be the same as to allow sher
iffs to sell the lands of creditors
without giving public notice in the
newspapers. We have no doubt of
the hostility of the fraternity known
as the land pirates to the press of
the eouurty, but this appears as the
first attempt at tossing together the
delinquent taxpayers ami press fra
ternity, arid with a d—l of a shake
emptying- them <7 //i< .7 into the
pockets of speculators.
