Pennsylvania Act 1864-156 — DEBTS - COLLECTION OF DISTRICT AND TOWNSHIP

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DEBTS - COLLECTION OF DISTRICT AND TOWNSHIP
                 Act of Mar. 31, 1864, P.L. 162, No. 156              Cl. 53
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to the Collection of District and Township Debts in the
        several counties of the Commonwealth.

        Section 1.  Special tax for payment of debts due by any
     district or township
        When it shall be shown to the court of quarter sessions of
     any county of this state that the debts due by any district or
     townships in said county shall exceed the amount which
     supervisors or overseers may collect, in any year, by taxation
     as at present regulated, or when the proper officers refuse to
     levy a tax for the purposes set forth in the seventh section of
     the act of the twenty-fifth of February, 1835, it shall and may
     be lawful for said court, after ascertaining by proper means the
     amount of indebtedness of any particular district or township,
     by a writ of mandamus to direct the proper officers, by special
     taxation, to collect an amount sufficient to pay the same:
     provided always, that if the amount of such indebtedness is so
     large as to render it unadvisable to collect the same in any one
     year, taking into consideration other necessary taxation, the
     said court may direct the same to be levied and collected by
     annual installments or proportions, as may be adjudged
     reasonable and proper, and may order such special taxes to be
     levied and collected during such successive years as may be
     required for payment of the same.  1864, March 31, P.L. 162,
     Sec. 1.