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Ordinance 0056ORDINANCE N:O. 56 . In Ordinance providing for the collection of a street poll tax; and providing that same may be paid in work; and defining the duties of street Commissioner in regard thereto. Be it ordained by the Council of the Town of Edmonds. SECTION 1: Between the First day of March and the First day[[���� of December of each year, the Street Commissioner of said Town, shall demand from each and every person in said lover, liable for Street Poll tax for said year, the amount due from each person as such Street Poll tax. If any person liable for the street Poll tax, as provided by Ordinance, to be assessed and collected, refuse to pay the same when demar_ded by the Street Commissioner, and such person is it the employ of any person, firm, corporation, ar' company in said Town of Edmords, the said Street Commissioner shall ascertain from said person, firm, corporation or company, whether or not said person refusing to pay such Poll tax has earn- ed and there yet remains unpaid a sum of money sufficient to pay such Poll tax and the necessary costs of suit, he shall forthwith file with one of the Justices of the Pease of the Town of Edmonds, a statement settirg forth the facts as above, and thereupon the said Justice shall immediately issue summons to such person refusing to pay said Street ?ol.l tax, directing him to appear before said `Justice and show cause why judgment should not be entered against" him for such sum due and costs of suit. The Constable serving such summons, shall at the same time serve the person, firm, corporation or company in whose employ such person may be, with a summons to appear before said Justice, which summons shall be issued by said Justice, at the same time as the party summoned as defendant, and answer touching his or their liability as garnishee defendant. SECTIOA 2: The Justice upon the trial,, unless a good defense is shown, shall enter judgment against such person refusing to pay such Poll tax, for the amount thereof and for the costs of suit, in- cluding an Attorney fee of five dollars, and shall also enter judg- ment against the garnishee defendant for the amount of the said judgment and costs, and if the amount is found to be due to such person from such garnishee defendant, and no exemption. 54 O.WSECTION 5* The Street Poll tax may be paid in labor on the streets udder the direction of the Street Commissioner. The Street 04 Commissioner shall give all persons who have not paid their Street .doll tax in money, at least three days' notice either in writing -or ver- bally, when and where he will be required to appear and perform labor on the -public streets, it said Town, in payment of his Street Poll tax, and every person who shall appear at the hour of eight o'clock A.M., and perform eight hours faithful and diligent labor in the public streets, under the direction of the Street Commissioner, shall be entitled to a credit of Two (2.00) Dollars a day for his personal labor, and if required to furnish a team and wagon, plow or other implement for the use of the public streets, he shall be entitled to a credit of Four ($4.00) Dollars a day with such team, wagon, plow or other implement, when furnished with team. provided, that. when employing persons on the public streets in the Town of Edmonds, under the provisions of this Ordinance, the Street Commissioner.shall warn and notify not less than five men to appear on any one day. ?assed by the Council this 19th day of July 1895. Attest: J.H.Dowd, Clerk. C.T.Hoscoe, Mayor. Town of Edmonds,ss. I, J.H.Dowd, Clerk of the Town of Edmonds, in the State of Washington, do hereby certify, that I have compared the foregoing copy of Ordinance numbered 56, entitled, "An Ordinance providing for the collection of a street Poll tax, and providing that the same may be paid in work and defining the duties of Street Commis- sioner in regard thereto", with the original thereof as passed by the Council, and that the same is a full, true and correct copy of said Ordinance and of the whole thereof. I further certify that the same was published according to law in the weekly"Edmonds byre" on the second day of ,L�ugust 1895. J.H.Dowd, Clerk.