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WHEREAS, it ha s be(?n ca lIed to the attention of the
City Council of the City of Clermont by Mr. H. W. Sheppard,
Certified Public Accountant and auditor for the City of Clermont
that there are fixed assets for sanitary privies of $44.50 and
certain delinquent real and personal property taxes for the years
of 1939 through 1948 hereinafter enumerated inclusive vI/rich have
been erroneously assessed or which have been found to be uncol-
lectible by reason of the persons against whom the assessments
have been made to be either deceased, out of business or removed
from the City of Clermont and have no visible property upon which
the City could levy if the City sought to foreclose said tax liens;
VIHEHEAS, it ha s been brought to the a ttention of the
City Council of the City of Clermont that in the year of 1940 on
pages 1 and 81 of the tax assessment ro]l there have been found
an assessment on page 1 against the City of Clermont for ~al estate
taxes in the amount of $2.25 which was an erroneous assessment, and
on page 81 a delinquency of $18.00 on taxes due to have been Gaid
by. the Tavares & Gulf Railroad and that in that year it js found
that a receipt for the taxes in full had been written by an acting
city clerk in error and that said delinquency of $18.00 together
with the delinquency against the City in the amount of $2.25 should
be cancelled from said books; and
V~EREAS, it is found to the best ihterests of the City
of Clermont that said fixed assets of $44.50 and the delinquent
taxes for the above respective years be cancelJed and declared
null and void, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Clermont
that the following personal property taxes which are no longer
collectible or which should not be collected as hereinabove set
forth be forever cancelled and the City Clerk of the City of Cler-
mont under the direction of the City Auditor is hereby directed to
take such steps as is necessary to cancel same on the books of the
City of Clermont, said taxes being more particularly described as
follows: