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shall be forwarded by the treasurer to the supervisor of the tax district in which such real property was assessed, and such supervisor shall, prior to the first day of the annual meeting of the board of supervisors in such county, add to the assessment-roll of the tax district in which the real property is situated, for the then current year, an accurate description of such real property, the correct amount of taxes thereon, the tax of each year and kind of tax separately, stating that it is a reassessment, and charge the same therewith. The board of supervisors shall direct the collection of such taxes so added to the assessment-roll, and they shall be considered the taxes of the year in which the description shall be perfected. If such tax be not levied upon such real property as herein required, the board of supervisors shall cause the same with interest thereon at the rate of ten per centum per annum, to be levied upon the tax district in which originally assessed and collected with the other taxes of the same year.

§ 89. Unpaid taxes on resident real property to be reassessed. When the tax on any real property, not assessed as nonresident, is returned as unpaid and so remains, the county treasurer shall, unless such tax shall have been rejected as provided by section eighty-eight-a, immediately deliver a transcript thereof to the supervisor of the tax district in which such tax was assessed. Such supervisor shall, if in his power, within thirty days thereafter, cause an accurate description of such real property to be made and returned to said treasurer, with the correct amount of taxes thereon, each kind of tax being stated separately, and if necessary, he may cause a survey and map of any of said real property to be made, and the expense of such survey and map on or for each lot or parcel shall be returned to said treasurer, and be a legal charge upon such real property and be collected with the taxes thereon. The amount of such tax shall bear interest at the rate of ten per centum per annum from the first day of February until paid, or until the sale of such property to satisfy such tax by the county treasurer, or if the property is located in a county embracing a portion of the forest preserve, until the return of such unpaid tax to the comptroller. And such real property and the tax thereon shall be regarded for

all purposes of assessment, collection and sale as nonresident, and subject to all the provisions of the tax law in relation to nonresident real property and nonresident taxes.

§ 90. Payment to creditors of the county. Each county treasurer shall pay to the creditors of the county from the moneys paid to him by the collectors of taxes of the several towns therein, such sums and in such manner as the board of supervisors of the county direct.

§ 91. Payment of state tax. The comptroller shall charge each county treasurer with the amount of the state tax levied on his county, except the tax for schools, crediting him with his fees, if any, but no fees shall be allowed by the comptroller for such portion of the state tax as is credited by him for unpaid nonresident taxes. The county treasurer of each county shall, after retaining his fees thereon, at the rate of one per centum thereof, which shall not, however, in any case exceed fifteen hundred dollars, for all taxes for state purposes, including schools, pay the state tax to the treasurer of the state, as follows: One-third of the state tax exclusive of the state tax for schools on or before the fifteenth day of February, one-third thereof on or before the fifteenth day of April, and unless otherwise provided by law, the balance thereof on or before the fifteenth day of May in each year, and notify the comptroller of such payment. Whenever the state tax for schools, payable by any county, shall exceed the apportionment to such county of state school moneys as made by the state commissioner of education, in accordance with the provisions of the education law, such excess shall be paid by the treasurer of such county to the treasurer of the state on or before the fifteenth day of March in each year, and such treasurer shall notify the state commissioner of education of such payment. If there are not sufficient funds in the county treasury standing to the credit of any town to pay the state tax chargeable thereto, the treasurer shall borrow sufficient money upon the credit of the county and charge the same against such town, with interest thereon until the same is paid. If any county treasurer shall not pay over the state tax, including the state tax for schools, as herein directed, the comptroller shall charge on all sums withheld such rate of interest as

shall be sufficient to repay all expenditures incurred by the state in borrowing money equivalent to the amount so withheld, and such additional rate as he shall deem proper, not exceeding ten per centum, from the dates herein before provided for such payments in each year, which shall be regarded as funds in the hands of the county treasurer belonging to the state and for which his sureties and county shall be liable. The fees of the county treasurer for collecting and paying over the school tax shall be allowed and paid by the commissioner of education.

§ 92. Accounts of county treasurer with comptroller. The comptroller shall state annually on June first, the account of each county treasurer, and if any part of a state tax is unpaid at that date, the comptroller shall transmit by mail to the county treasurer a copy of such accounts and a requisition that he must pay the balance due the state within thirty days, and if the tax is not paid within such time, the comptroller shall, unless he is satisfied by due proof that the treasurer has not received such balance, and has used due diligence in collecting the same, forthwith deliver a copy of the account to the attorney-general, who shall take the necessary proceedings to collect the same of the county treasurer or his sureties or otherwise, with interest as provided by the last preceding section. The comptroller may also, in his discretion, direct the board of supervisors of the county to institute the necessary proceedings on the undertaking of such county treasurer and his sureties. The comptroller shall also transmit to the board of supervisors on or before October tenth, a statement of account between his office and the county treasurer.

§ 93. Losses by default of collector or treasurer. All losses sustained, and all deficiencies in any taxes, or in the pay. ments to be made therefrom, by reason of the default of any collector, shall be chargeable to the town or city of which he is collector. If occasioned by the default of the treasurer of any county in the discharge of his official duties, such losses shall be chargeable to such county. Any judgment against such treasurer for any such loss or deficiency on account of the state tax upon which an execution shall have been issued and returned unsatis

fied shall be conclusive as to the fact of such loss or deficiency, and the amount of such deficiency shall thereupon become a charge against such county, and the board of supervisors thereof shall add all such losses or deficiencies to the next year's taxes of such town, city or county, and levy the same thereon.

§ 95. Article, how applicable. This article shall apply to all the cities or towns of the state, in so far as the matters herein provided for do not conflict with the special and local laws of such cities or towns.

ARTICLE 5

Collection of Nonresident Taxes

Section 100. Return of unpaid nonresident taxes. 101. Rejection of taxes.

102. Admission of nonresident taxes by comptroller and its effect.

103. Payment to the county treasurer of excess of arrears credited.

104. Cancellation of tax by comptroller.

105. Transmittal of statement of canceled taxes to board of supervisors.

106. Correction of imperfect descriptions.

107. Nonresident taxes, when and how paid to comptroller.

108. Deduction of overcharges.

109. Overpaid taxes.

$ 100. Return of unpaid nonresident taxes. The collector shall return the original assessment-roll to the county treasurer, and when the treasurer finds an account of unpaid taxes on real property or unpaid taxes on corporations, received from a collector to be a true transcript of such original assessmentroll to which the collector's warrant is attached with the descriptions furnished by the supervisor as provided in section eightynine, he shall add to it a certificate that he has examined and compared the account with such roll and found it to be correct, and after crediting the collector with the amount thereof, he shall, except in Saint Lawrence, Lewis, Clinton, Warren, Washington and Oneida counties, in case his county embraces a portion of the forest preserve, before the first day of May next ensuing, transmit such account, affidavit and certificate to the comptroller who may, before acting thereon, return any such account to the county treasurer for correction, who shall make such correction. and return to the comptroller in one month thereafter or as the comptroller may otherwise direct.

§ 101. Rejection of taxes. The comptroller shall examine every account of arrears of taxes on lands of nonresidents re

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