Regular Session February 5th. 1844

Present Joseph Smith Chief Justice, , , and Associate Justices Assessor and Collector of the 3rd. Ward reported six dollars and forty nine cents as delinquencies on Personal Property <​for the year 1842​> and Petitioned for Abatement of the same and the Court ordered the six dollars and forty nine cents to be abated. Assessor and Collector of the 1st. Ward reported his list of Taxes for the year 1842 and petitioned for an abatement of two dollars and sixty two cents on personal property. Court granted the Petition—

1/2 past 1. Court rose one hour for dinner

1/2 past 2 Court sat Assessor and Collector of the 4th. Ward reported his list of Taxes for the year 1842 and petitioned for an abatement of one dollar and seventy nine and a half cents on personal property. Court granted the Petition

Assessor and Collector of the 2nd. Ward for the year 1842 having some time since made his report to the and left the said Report was presented to the Court showing a deficiency in the Collection on Real and Personal Property of Eight dollars and three cents with the prospect that a part of the same might soon be collected without Cost and the Court considering the circumstances ordered the deficit to be abated.

Assessor and Collector of the 1st. Ward <​for the year 1842​> reported the following lots on which taxes remain due and unpaid <​for the year 1842​> with the Certificate of the that the same had been advertized for sale, on the 19th. February Instant and prayed that Judgment might be rendered accordingly. to wit