Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-09-14
ALEXANDRIA,,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER a..
AR SsowDEN:

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y, through yoa, prepared an answer TO
.sa specious apology Of Native Alex
.ndrisn;' but having subsequently obtain.
y from able leg advisers, an entire cor.
,obora,ion ofmy drst view of the subject,
deem it Improbable to trouble you at
,,,csnt With sciong communication, and
.b.ll, therefore, offer to the public little
.l,s man the annexed opinions of R. |.
r,yloa and T. w. flEwirr, Esqrs.
From these il willie clearly seen, that
80 c,oyement can be made. by the Levy
coua until after the termination OF the
session Of Congress; nor even then,
uoIess some Ineligible law be passed in
The jaierim.
So narrow has been our escape, sir, from
the grasp OF oppression, thar it behoyes US
to be more yigilaDt than we have been, in
regard 10 our rights. and 10 unite our ex-
.erlions to place so important an establish
meut as the Levy Court on more equita-
BE and useful footing. A meeting of the
citizens should be held tor the purpose;
the voice of all interested should be fairly
taken upon the main question whether il
isiust that the whole burthen Of the coun-
" should be borne in like proportions by
The rieb and the poor; and judlcious per-
SOUS should be appointed to petition Con-
gress for the enacting OF law suitable to
our condition. Ii the course which take
the liberty 10 recommend, be approved of,
and adopted, viii then endeavor, sir. 10
show the anti-republicsn, unjust. and inl-
politic operation oil the present laws; how
these laws were obtained; by whom; and
for what psrpose. But one sentiment pre-
walls with regard to the debts of the coun-
", building necessary Offices, and levy.
ing taxes for the accomplishment of these
objects--all are willing that these things
should be done-and will have them done
fairly aud legally. The act OF TWO
MEN will not be allowed to Cypress the
poor aud screen the rich; nor will the
blame, justly imputable to few, be charg-
ed to the many. LEX.
~ The act of Congress of the last session hav.
ne invested the Levy Court of Alexandra
county with the powers which the County
Courts ofVirginia possessed and exercised on
the 9th dayof February, 1901, in relation to
having the county levies--to ascertain what
those powers are, and how they are to be exer.
eised. it isneeessary to refer to the laws of
Virginia, as they were at the period abo<e
mentioned,
The first act which has any bearing on the
subject, Is, the act of 18th December, 1872,
prescribing the mode of ascertainins the taxa
bic property. &c This act, in its terms, re-
lales only to the public or state revenue; but
some Gifts provisions are afterwards adopted
in the act regulating the mode of laying the
county levy.
By this act, the County Courts are required
toappoint commissioners of the revenue an.
nnally, in The months of September or Octo-
Der, These commissioners are to commence,
On the 10Th of March following, to take lists
dtaxabls property, as it stood on the day pre-
eedins, and TO proceed, without delay, until
ms whole taxable property has been tax Zen in.
The act OF the 9th of the same month,
concerning timetables, and directing the
mode oflaying and collecting the county le-
W. provides that the commissioners OF tax
within the several counties. shall, at the same
period IN each year in which they are collect
~ lists oftaxable property under the above
nentoned act, proceed to receive lists OF tithe-
a0ics, which they are required to arrange In
aPaaSetical order, and to return to the clerks
athe County Courts. ON or before the last
Jay May. The clerks are required to set
uPmthe Court;houses oftheir respective coun.
aes' tar copies of these tables, at the next
Court after they shall have been so returned.
'ne County Courts are required, in the
months of June or July. 10y the act of 1876,
'aansed to September or October to proceed
make up on their minutes an account
~au expenses incurred by the Courts under
say law, aud chargeable on the county-stat-
N's Tue sums due-for what, aud to whom, and
s'ea'ts owing TO the county; and when the
s''an's due from the county is ascertsined,
y oedncting the sums due to the county from
muse owing by it. the justices are to proceed
"'esy aud assess, on the titheable persons in