1933_public local laws_523_2
CHAPTER 522 AN ACT TO AMEND HOUSE BILL 1405 ENTITLED AN ACT TO FIX THE SALARIES AND COMPENSATION OF CER- TAIN OFFICERS OF BLADEN COUNTY, RATIFIED APRIL 28TH, 1933 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That House Bill fourteen hundred five of the present session of the General Assembly, ratified April twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred thirty-three, the same being: An act to fix the salaries and compensation of certain officers of Bladen County, be and the same is, hereby amended by striking out and rewriting section one thereof so that said section shall read as follows: Section 1 That the sheriff of Bladen County shall receive the salary of twenty-one hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly, and, in addition thereto, shall also receive fees and commissions as sheriff and tax collector of said county as follows: The sheriff of Bladen County shall receive for his services in collecting all taxes, commissions at the rate of one per centum on the first fifty thousand dollars of taxes collected, commissions at the rate of two per centum of all taxes collected by him in excess of fifty thousand dollars up to and including but not in excess of, one hundred thousand dollars, and commissions at the rate of four per centum of all taxes collected by him in excess of one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, however, that the said sheriff shall keep an accurate account of all commissions so received by him upon such tax collections, and make accurate report thereof to the Board of Commissioners of Bladen County at each regular meeting of such Board, covering such collections for the preceding calendar month, the said report to be audited and passed upon by the County Auditor or County Accountant, and all sums received by said sheriff from such commissions on taxes collected as hereinbefore set out, in excess of the sum of four thousand dollars per year, shall by said sheriff be paid over and into the treasury of Bladen County as a part of the general fund thereof, such ascertainment and settlement to be made as of the first Monday of December in each calendar year. The sheriff of Bladen County shall also receive, in addition to the compensation as above provided for, all fees and emoluments of his office which are, or may hereafter be, allowed by law for the service of process, including a fee of fifty cents for each levy made on personal property in the collection of taxes, and also all such fees allowed for his services in connection with sale or foreclosure of land for delinquent taxes, as allowed to the sheriff by chapter one hundred forty-eight, Public Laws nineteen hundred thirty-three.