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AN ACT
To Establish a Uniform Mode
for the Valuation of Property and
Assessment of Taxes.
szeTioN I. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Peonsylvania, in General
lissrmidy met, and U is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same, That the asses
sors of the several wards, townships, and
districts, within this Commonwealth, shall
immediately on the receipt of the precept
from the county commissioners according
to the second section of the act entitled
•• An relating to county rates and levies,
rut township rates and levies," passed
'he fifteenth day of April, °tie thousand
•ight hundred and thirty-four, and be
'..re entering upon the duties of their ol- ,
bee, take and Pubscribe the following'
ttli or affirmation: You do (swear or af
irm) that you will support the constitu
on or the United States, and the consti
t•ttion of the State of Pennsylvania; that
• will as assessor for (ward, township,
district,) use your utmost dilligence
.tt ability, to discover and ascertain all
.I t .. property, real and personal, within
v or township. ward or district, and all
other objects subject to taxation by the
kw% of this Commonwealth, and take a
correct and accurate account of the same,
and that you will justly and honestly as
vess and value all teal estate, and person
al property, and all other objects and
things made taxable by the laws of this
Commonwealth, within your township,
ward or district, according to the actual
value thereof, and at the price for which
they would bona fide sell, and that you
will rate a l .l offices, posts of profit, pro
lessions, trades and occupations, accord
ing to what you believe to be the actual
yearly income arising therefrom, and that
you will perform your duty as assessor of
said township, ward or district, with hon •
esty and fidelity, according to the laws
of this Commonwealth, without fear, fa
vor, or affection, hatred, malice. or ill
will.
• Seem*/ 2. The several assistant as•
sensors beh•re entering upon the duties of
their offices, under the several laws of
this Commonwealth, shall take and sib•
scribe an oath or affirmation similar to
Sbat subscribed as aforesaid, For the asses
airs of the said wards, townships, or tlis.
tr;cts, which said several oaths or affirm•
•tinns of assessors and their assistants,
11l all be taken before some officer, having
authority by law to administer oaths, a n d
duly certified by him, anti returned by
e respective assessors to the commis
signers of the proper county, at the time
of returning their assessments us directed
V, law.
SECTION S. Il any assessor, or assist
het assessor, shall knowingly and inten
tionally omit, neglect, or refuse to assess
sad return any property, person or thing,
Made taxable by law, or shill knowingly
end intentionally assess, rate, or value
bheaasne. at more or less then he shall
ft.c,c - te, and believe the just cash value or
rate thereof, or neglect pr refuse to assess
lax required by law, he shall be 01-
is" of it misslemexner in offiee, and on con•
THE JOURNAL.
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1841.
viction thereof, be subject to imprison.
meat, not less than three, nor more than
twelve months, and fined iu a sum not
less than one hundred, nor inure than two
hundred uullars.
Si CTP/N 4. The third and sixth sec
tions of the act entitled "An act relating
to county rates and levies," passed the
fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-faur, and all the laws
of this Commonwealth which require the
assessors of the several townships, wards,
and districts, to fix a uniform standard
of value of objects made taxable by law,
be, and the same are hereby repealed, and
Iron) and after the passage of this act, it
shall be the duty of the several assessors
and assistant assessors, to assess, rate,
and value all objects of taxation, whether
for state, county, city, district, ward,
township, or borough purposes, according
to the actual value thereof, and at such
rates and prices, for which the same
would seperately bona fide sell, and on
the return of such assessment or valuas
lion into the office of the county contorts,
stoners, after the same shall have been
carefully examined and corrected, it shall
be lawful for said cot , missioners, if they
believe any property or any thing made
taxable, has otian assessed and valued be
low its actual value, to raise the same to
the actual value thereof, or if the same
has been assessed and valued above its
actual value, to reduce the same thereto :
Protided, That in no case the said com
missioners shall impose a dinerent rate
per eentuni, on odic' ent townships in
their county, but the sane shall be equal
throughout, and all rates shall be levied
on the assessments as returned and cor
rected.
SECTION 5. If the several assessors of
this Commonwealth, in the discharge of
their respective duties, shall have reason
to believe any person or persons or corps.
ration shall have rendered a false return
of his, her, or their property, trade, pro
' fession, occupation, or any article made
taxable by law, or shall not make a full
disclosure of the same, the said assessors
shall return what they shall believe to be
the full value and amount thereof to the
commissioners of the proper county, and
as the person or persons or corporation
thus assessed shall feel aggrieved, an ap
peal may be had, according to the exist
ing law, from such assessment, and it
shall be lawful for the °aunty commis-,
sinner a to administer an oath or affirma
tion to the person or persons or corpora
tion taking such appeal, touching the vat
ue and amount of their property, trade,
occupation or profession, or any article
made taxable, and it they deem an abate
ment proper, the same shall be made; but
the sund commissioners may, it they see
proper, receive other evidence.
SECTION 6. That within four weeks of •
ter the nextgeneral election, the com
missioners of every county shall issue
their precept to the assessors of their re
spective townships, wards and districts,
who shall proceed to make out and re
turn, within sixty days thereafter, a just
and perfect list. in such form as the com
missioners shall direct, of the names of
all the taxable persons residing within
their wards, townships and districts, res
pectively, and of all property taxable by
law, together with a just valuation of the
me, to be made in the manlier hereto
""re provided 'Or in the previous section
°I this art, said valuation to continue un
til the next triennial assesment, at which
time the assessment shall be made by the
assessors and assistant assesors, as pre
scribed by the provisions of this act.
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SECTION 7. So mu he proviuo
in the fourth of an act
entitled "An act to crea itioual re
venue, to be applied towards the pay.
inent of interest and the extinguishment
of debts of this Commonwealth," passed
the eleventh day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and forty, as authorised
the deduction of the value of any ground
rent, dower or mortgage, on any real es
tate. within this Commonwealth, in esti
mating the value thereof, be and the
same is hereby repealed, and said real
estate shall hereafter be estimated at its
lull value, and taxed accordingly.
SECTION 8. It shall be the duty of the
commissioners of the several counties of
this Commonwealth, immediately after
the return of the assessments and value
ation of their respective counties in Jan.
nary next, as required by this act, and in
every year of triennial assessment there
after, to mike out in a tabular form a lull
statement of such assessment, showing
the amount at which all the real and_per
sonal property, and the respective offices
and posts of profit, professions, trades,
and occupations, aid all the other matters
and things made taxable by the laws of
this Commonwealth, have been valued
and assessed ; also, the gross amount of
tax assessed for county purposes in said
county, and the rate per centum imposed
to raise such tax, and transmit the same
by mail to the auditor general to be filed
in his office.
"ONE COUNTRY, OhE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
A. W. BENFIDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
SECTION 9. It shall be a misdemeanor
in office for the commissioners of any
county to neglect or refuse to perform
the duties required of them by law, in
the assessment or collection of any tax
which has been or shall be imposed by
the laws of this Commonwealth, and on
conviction of said offence he or they shall
be punished by a fine of not less than
fifty nor more than twohund red dollars.
SECTION 10. So much of 'all laws (4
this Commonwealth which are hereby
altered or supplied, be and they are here
by repealed.
WM. A. CRABB,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JNO. H. RN% ING,
Speaker of the Senate.
APrROvED--The fifteenth day of May
Anno Domini, one thousand eight hund.
red and forty.one.
DAVID R. PORTER
Nov. 24, 1841. 3t.
TEMPERANCE SONGS.
Written for the Iluntingdon
Washington Temperance
Society,
Tvprz—" The Campbells are coming."
The "bruisers" are coming, 0 ho! J ho!
he "bruisers" are coming, 0 ho! 0 ho!
The "bruisers" are coming from taverns
all running
The "bruisers" are coming, 0 ho! 0 ho!
A bright and happy throng are they,
As moving on their temperance way,
They look behind where all was drear— '
Then see before a glorious cheer.
The "bruisers" are coming arc.
No more the same "old drunk" ti►ey are
As in old times when tar met tar;
The bravest Grecian then was he,
Who most excelled in revelry.
The "bruisers" are coming, &c.
Brains are now still, that used to turn,
And cheeks are cool, that used to burn;
Eyes now are clear, that once were sore,
And legs can walk that tell before.
fhe "Lruisers" are coming,dgc
The shattered, :wrecked, and broken
frame—
Disease and death.—and blasted name,
Around the drunkard's pathway lie—
Why doth he not to safety tly?
The "bruisers" are coming, &c.
Why think of cups--and poison gills,
And fiery liquid from the stills?
Tear down the Rum--God from on high,
And check your wives & childrens cry.
The "bruisers" are coming, &c.
They come from valley hill and town
To crowd our standard sheet around—
Then join beneath its starry blaze.
Our chorus song aloft to raize.
The "bruisers" are coming 0 ho! 0 ho!
The "bruisers" are coming 0 hi,! 0 ho!
The "bruisers" are coming, from taverns
all running
The "bruisers" are coining, o_4l 0 its!
Tune,—"Scot's. wa haw."
RI ENDS of freedom swell the song,
.11.: Young and old, the strain prolong,
Make the temp'rance army strong,
And on to victory.
Lift your banners, let them wave,
Onward march a world to save;
Who would fill a drunkard's grave,
And bear his infamy?
Shrink not when the foe appears;
Spurn the cowards guilty fears;
Hear the shrieks, behold the tears
Of ruin'd families!
Raise the cry in every spot—
" Touc h not—Taste not—Handle not,"
Who would be a drunken sot,
The worst of miseries?
Give the aching bosom rest;
Carry joy to every breast;
Make the wretched drunkard blest,
By living soberly.
Raise the glorious watchword high—
"'l ouch not—Taste not till you die!" •
Let the echo reach the sky,
And earth keep jubilee.
God of mercy! hear us plead,
For thy help we intercede!
See how many bosoms bleed!
And heal them speedily.
Hasten, Lord, the happy day,
V hen, beneath thy gentle ray,
TZMP'RANCE all the world shall sway,
And reign triumphantly.
From the Sunday Mercury.
SitOast Patent Sermons.
NEW SERIES—No. I.XX 111.
The following are the words of my test
for this occasion :
'Twas said of ow—deny it who can—
The only laughing animal is man.
My hearers—When we come to look
over the whole field of animated maitre,
we find that Man is the Only creature that
evinces his joyful, pleasurable, or mirth
tul emotions by a broad grin and convul
sive ha ha! A dug may shake his tail
in gladness at the return of his absent
master---a kitten, in its merry moods,
may play with a nut, or whirl round and
round after its own posteriorial spindle—
a jackass may pick up his ears in joy at
the sight of a bunch of thistles ; but neith
er of them can laugh audibly and without
gesture, as can that crazy-headed, sell'
supreme creature, called Man. The risi•
ble faculties of the mute creation, my
friends, are never excited except through
a sense ofjoy or of gladness, They nev
er laugh at the ludicrous--never laugh to
scorn--and they never laugh to ridicule;
'tis only when they are really happy that
nature prompts them to show any indica
tion of laughter. It would be a blessed
thing for mankind in general if they could
but take a lesson from the brutes, and
learn to laugh only when the exhilerating
gas of true joy is at work within them. I
wouldn't have you think, my dear friends,
that I am teetotally opposed to laughing.
Five miles from it. lam fond of a merry
heart; a cheerful disposition, and I do
think that an occasional fit of laughter
that has a touch of the earthquake, torna
do and thunder about it, is esseltial to the
welfare of the human system ; inasmuch
as it shakes up, and works off, all the
bile of hatred and envy—clears out the
'cobwebs of moroseness, and makes a
person feel new all over, from the top of
his ears to the tip of his toes; but there is
altogether too much laughing in social)
communities at things ludicrous, things , 1
frivolous—aye, even at the pains, suffer-
ings and misfortunes of others. Some
will laugh at all their own folly—some at
the folly of others--some at the sight of a
dog with a tin ketttle tied to its tail--some
at the clawing s of a tortoise with a coal
of fire on its back —and Timuleon the'
younger died of laughter on seeing an ass
eat figs. It is a wonder to me the ass had
not also died of excessive mirth on behold.
ing'fimoleon holding his sides and grin
ning at Death, with fire in his eyes and
fun in his soul.
My hearers—a habit of eternal giggling
and sound sense don't jingle together any
more than a lump of dough and a ball of
cotton. fly continual laughing you so
agitate the milk of a good story as to stir
in the cream of the joke as fast as it rises
—leaving the narrator in a pitiful quan
dary as to whether you haven't laughed at
the worst and lost the best of it. Although
animals never laugh, still it is almost
enough to make a cat laugh to see a son of
Momus with his mouth always stretched
from ear to ear. He looks like an alliga
tor gasping to catch flies. He is as dull
as the back of a razor in comprehension--
as shallow as a saucer in intellect—and
as obtuse as a Dutchman's pipe in under
standing. 'Laugh and be merry,' is a
good motto ; but I advise you, my friends,
never to laugh unless it is when you are
really merry. This laughing merely be•
i cause others laugh is the fat of foolishness,
and betrays a soul small enough to be be
yond the microscopic power of the Al
mighty's eye, but no doubt sufficiently
large for the devil to pick up with a pair
of tweezers.
My dear friends—above all things nev
er laugh to ridicule. If you see anything
that doesn't exactly accord with your no
tions of pea soup and propriety, spread
on the mustard of rPproof as thick as you
please, but don't ridicule; for it bespeaks
low breeding, and can have but little ef
fect, as the old rain said when lie butted
the strain engine. I don't want you
should laugh, I say, except when you
feel merry and gay round the outskirts of ,
the heart. I don't want you to laugh at
my preaching unless it happens to fill your
waistcoats with glory--then, you may lie
down and roll in bliss, and shout in ex
tacy, as though the infernal regions were
out of fuel, and heaven had been enlarg
ed. But there are times when Astra as
well as Momus should reign. Yes, my
friends, there is a time to weep as well
as to laugh. There is a time to too, med
itate and reflect; and to meditate rightly
requires a man to be as sober as a sepul'
ehre. He can't reflect upon his former
follies, nor meditate upon his future doom,
and laugh. He must shut his lips to con,
fine his wayward thoughts—. shut his ears
to the outer world, open them inwardly
and listen to the instructions of a lordly
reason, and to the admonishings of a mas
terly conscience.
My hearers—this is the season of the
year when the laughing animal, man, ought
to be as sedate as a swill tub, and as
thoughtful as a thousand of convicts. He
should go out into the fields—observe
how the hand of desolation is stripping
each inautiful wreath from the bonnet of
summer —how the fading, the faded, the
dying and the dead leaves of the forest
whisper of life's last decline and of that
tomb in which now repose the ashes of
those who 'tote, like us, laughed in tner
riness of heart for a few brief moments,
and then closed their dim eyes in dark
ness for ever! No, not for ever; they
wake again in another and a better world,
where all is bliss and joy—but no laugh
ter. tio mote it be / Dow, Ja.
Aping the Aristocracy.
Yesterday we perceived a carriage in
our streets with driver and footman wear
ing livery badges ! We could not ascer
tain whether it was owned by a French
Marquis or a British Viscount Assur
edly it did not belong to an American.—
Louisiana Adv.
It could not have belonged to an Amer.
ican, a republican American. It may
have been occupied by some frowsy old
dame, and a bloated, purse-prord scav
enger, who had been elevated, by some
freak of fortmie, from the kennel in which
j they were born, to roll in wealth and snow
the world what fools such things are; but
whether the) may claim their birth-place
in America or not, they are not, cannot
be Americans, You might as well call a
scullion a King because he was born in
the kitchen of a palace. We have Ire.
quently had occasion to notice, in this
section of the cour,try, the prevalence of
such a spirit of aping the conte:npt Ude lol
lies of the foreign "nobilty." A dandta
lied stripling, whose respectable father
and worthy old mother commenced life
in a hovel, and by honest industry accu
mulated a considerable sum of money,
must needs make the tour of Europe, and
and return with his shallow brain addled
by the glare and glitter, the tinsel and
foppery of fashionable foreign life, he,
like the travelled monkey in the fable,
sets himself up as the pattern of refine
ment, anti with his face disfigured by mus
taches. imperial and whiskers, he struts
about a living personification of "puss in
boots." The animal meets with cungerii
al taste in some silly girl just escaped
' from the misery; and a wedding, on the
most fashionable stye. is soon the talk or
the elite. The; must needs set up a car
riage, and to lie fashionable, some poor
, creatures are discovered who for the sake
of a mouthful of cold victuals, are will
ing to wear the badge of slavery is the
shape of a threadbare coat with rusty
copper lace bound on to keep it together.
They must, forsooth, have a coat of arms
too, with which to emblazen the pannels
of an old hack carriage, and the wag of a
painter, who pla:s the part of "garter
king at arms," furnishes them with a
goose and gridiron, supported by two
mules, to show that their mothers were
kitchen maids and their fathers stable boys
and that they have a touch of the propen
sities of long eared animals. such are
the specimens of yankee nobility that we
see, and the effect of their foolery is that
they are dispised.—Bull, Sun.
Anecdote.
A FACT.—A very genteel, iupudent
looking young man, was seen to enter
church in time of service—he paused at
the entrance —the congregation stared--
he advanced a few steps, and deliberates
ly surveying the whole assembly, cont
inence(' a slow march up the broad aisle
--not a pew was opened—the audience
were to busy for civility—he wheeled, and
in the same manner performed a march,
stepping as if to kaolin Castle, or the
dead march in Saul, and disappeared, a
few moments after he reentered with a
huge block upon his shoulders, as heavy
as Tie could well stagger under, his coon •
tenance was immovable—again the good
people started and half rose from their
seats with their bunks in their !mods. At
length he placed the block in the very
centre of the principle passage and seated
himself upon it. Then, fin the first time
the reproach was felt ! Every pew door
in the house was instant') - flung open !
But no—the stranger was a gentleman—
,he came not here for disturbance--he
moved not, smiled not ; hut preserved the
utmost decorum, until the service was
conccluded, when he deliberately shoul- '
dered his block, and to the same slow
steps bore it off and replaced it "here he
had found it. The congregation is now
the most polite sod attentive to strangers
of any in America.
INDEPENDENCE OF MIND.-There nre
some men who go in leading strings all
their days. They always follow in the
path of others, without being able to give
any reason for their opinions. There is
a proper mental independence which all
should maintain—self respect and the stabil
ity of our character require it. The man
who pins his opinions entirely on anoth•
cr's sleeve, can have no respect for his
[WnoLE No. 30W
;owe judgment, and is likely to be a
changeling. ‘Vhen we c:.n•oler catefu'-
jly what appeals to our minds and exer
,cise upon it our reason, taking into IT
spectlul considernion what others say
upon it, and then come to a conclusion of
our own, we act as intelligent beings
should se, and only then. This prnprr
independence of mind is far removed front
presumptu ,, us self confidence, than which
there is nothing more severely to be con.
demned. Presumption is the associate of
ignorance; and it is hateful in the ex
treme to hear some hall•taught stripling
delivering his opinions with all the au
thority of an oracle. This is not what
we wean by mental ineependence, and
it is hoped none will mis , ake what has
been said. We refer to a modest yct
firm and independent exercise of judg
ment upon subjects which the mind un
derstands; in short, we intend only the
opposite of that slavish habit which makes
one man the mere shadow of another.
From the National Intelligeneer.
MR. BADGER AT HOME.
upon his late return to North Carolina'
the lion. Geo. E. Badger, Ex-Secretary
of the Navy, was welcomed and compli
mented by the inhabitants of the beautiful
little city of Raleigh (the place of his
resi•len-e) with a Public Dinner, at which
;I....nibbled a large number of respec
,ahl, intelligent citizens than had ev
er before been gathered together at that
place or neighborhood on any like occa•
sion.
After the third toast had been drank
Mr Badger rose and addressed his assam
bled friends in a speech that is very high•
ly spoken of for its eloquence, and of
which the following sketch, professedlya
brief one, token down at the time, is pub
lished in the Raleigh Register, and aft' rds
no doubt a correct view of the general
ground occupied by the gifted orator:
Mr. BADGER commenced by remark.
ling that he should indeed be wanting in
sensibility not to be touched by the testi
monial of undeserved approbation this
day offered him, and by the complimenta
ry sentiment which had just been so kindly
received. He was fully aware that there
were considerations other than personal
connected with this mark of respect; and
it was no doubt exuected, surrounded as
he was by his old friends, and by those
best aide to estimate his motives that ha
should say something as to the dissolution
of the late Cabinet, the present posture of
our affairs, and the course proper to he a
llopted by the Whig party of North Caro
lina.
I It was never known to his friends that
he had never soup,ht for office, that he had
nn fondness for it, and that he took it
from considerations no way connected
with his own personal interest and ad
vancement. Had he believed himself tt
liberty to consult only his own wishes and
his own interest, he would have remain
ed in his native State, and been contented
to attract that degree of respect and es
teem to which he might be thought enti
tled. Having been influenced by public
considerations to take office, he felt deep
ly gratified, on laying it down, to find his
!conduct approved and his motives justly
) regarded by those who had the best op
portunity to know him.
The events of the past year, continued
Mr. 8., must have excited the astonish
inent of every observant man. It seem
ed to him only yesterday, when this grove
was filled with thousands of determined
Whigs, collected from every part of the
State—brought together by no base or
mercenary motives; but by the solemn con
vietion tlitit the fate of the whole country
was involved in the issue of a great pollt
ical struggle. They were fired by the
same spirit of liberty that impelled our
Revolutionary forefathers, and, like them
felt that the success of their eforts was
necessary to the welfare and happiness of
their posterity. They did succeed.
Day after day the cheering tidings came
in, that State upon State had declared for
the IVhig cause. At length the voice of
the whole American People was collec
ted, and HARIII4ON, the Patriot, Sae t te,
S , atesman, Soldier, and best of all Vais
thm, was called to direct the nation, To
his voice, said Mr 11., I yielded, and be
came a member of his Cabin et. And
%Own, air, I saw and knew DIV, noble old
min, yid those whom he had called Ws.
boot him—when I heard hi', n , in the mid st
of thousands of his co . ,ntevinen, t,,ke•
'hit solemn oath which bound him to sa
d oon the pledge then given of faithf. 4111e_
votion to his count' 7 , I felt deep *smut
! ranee that misrule, was at an end —that
the one man pow er was repudiated from
our system, an the Nation secure of a
true Represeettative Government.
But a fereful change has come over our
la's't.--Tl•.ere is a voice of mourning, and
a feelini; of distrust seems to pervade et/.
ery part of the country. Why is this ?•
Are Whig principles less valuable now
than they were twelve ininiths ago ? Are
Loc o Foco doctrines less fraught with
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