The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1840-02-04

1899, Of ninety thousand FIVE hundred and
one dollars and two cents, exclusive Of ipfer.
est, and when added to the amount due on
the LIST Of March, 1889, IL one hundred and
twenty-three thousand, four hundred and
eighty-one dollars and twenty-nine cents
10 which estimate may be added the coun4
ties of DeSoto, Kemper, Noxubee and Tun-
ica, which have made no return, which may
be seen by reference to exhibit, (A.)
Exhibit marked A. accompanying this re-
port, will shew the amount Of taxes assessed
for each county, as far as returns have been
made to my Office, for the year 1898. with
the amount paid in By each, also. the Ill
ances still due. Those ia arrears Cor tha
year 1898, hare been notified, that unless
the respective amounts are promptly paid
by the first day Of March next, their ac-
counts will be placed in the Attorney Gen.
erals hands for collection.
II the lands on the Tombigby, Big Black,
Yazoo, Noxnbee, Yalobusl,a, iTallahatchie
and Cold Water, had been classed a. antici.
pated, in my last report, the revenue Of the
State would have been considerably increas.
ed; large portion of the lands 10 the State
are acknowledged to be taxable. which have
not heretofore been source Of revenue: and
as the classification of lands as now based.
was made prior to the lands coming into
market, would respectfully suggest that
they be classed as No and 3.
The laws in relation to Hawkers, and
Pedlars, and transient merchants, seem to
be inadequate to the purposes of their enact
ments, and as suggested in my last report
to the Legislature, the mode by which be-
lieved a considerable revenue would be col
lected. Task leave, again to call your at
tention to the subject; reflection has more
thoroughly convinced me, that should the
Legislature pass law making it the duty Of
the Justices of the Peace, to take bond and
security from transient merchants, and
hawhefs, and pedlars, and return it to the
assessor of his county, who should be re-
quired to place it on his. assessment roll
and make it collectable as other tax, tha28
very considerable revenue would reach the
Treasury, which Sfnow, by some means OF
other, evaded.
The Legislature, at its last session, pass
ed : law, entitled San ACT, for the benefit Of
education" and made distribution Of the
fines, forfeitures, and amercements, accrus
ing to the Literary fund, designating partic-
ularly to what ecademies they should be
paid notwithstanding the law, the sum Of
four thousand, two hundred and seventy dol
| lars and ninety-three cents, on account of
fines and forfeitures; and the sum of two
hundred and twenty-five dollars and eighty
cents, from hawkers and pedlap, have been
paid into the Treasury during the year 1889.
would call your attention to making some
provision bylaw, authorising the Auditor Il
Public Accounts, on the production Of such
testimony, as may be designated, to pay
over by warrant, the amount paid into the
Treasury, to those entitled BY the act above
referred to, to receive it.
The 9Th section of Gan Actt provide for
selling the thirty-six sections Of land, grant
ed by the United States, to the State q
mississippi for Seminary of learning, and
to dispose on the proceeds of said SALE" pro
vides that the Auditor Of Public Accounts
shall collect and receive all the moneys nc
cruing from the sale Of said lands, and shall
vest the same in Planters Bank Stock, and
report to the Legislature at each session
thereof, in what manner he has performed
1.-THE duties required of him by the act. DR.
lring the last year; there has been collected
the sum of twe9tysone thousand seven hum
Idred and fourteen cllar1 and twenty-three
cents, belonging ldals fund, which was mo-
vested, as the law does not authorize thu
Auditor to RDplhase, but to vest It Ia stocl
Iof the Planters Bank. If vested, It vouli
be at one hundred dollars per share, and ]
purchased, the Stock Of the Planterss Banl
| is selling for fifty dollars per share. Tn
lgreat difference, determined me to wait IN
til the action Of the Legislature might b
|had upon the subject, aud . moro amplepFo
Iv,son be made, providing for the pulchasl
lof the Stock Of the Bank
| Ibelieve the revenue Of the State, j
lequally based, and promptly paid into a.
Treasury, will be sufficient for all the oedi
mary demands Of the State Governments. =.
This estimate is made excluding the public
buildings and appropriations for intsrnsl i'm
provements, which if added, greatly exree,
the amount of the receipts into the Treasury
4 The tax collectorsd 81 Carroll and Noxube'
q counties, applied for recsipt Warranty q
/ pay into the Treasury, on account Of ID,
tax of their respective counties, the pspe
Fl Of non-specie paying banks some few day
q after the expiration Of the time required By
! law, with their affidavitsin proper form; ba
under the existing statute, did not feel an
q thorized to issue my warrant to the Tree
surer to receive It.
4 In the settlsmapts with the tax collectors
since the FIR of ldateh last, the account
j has been lbsn a a the thirty per csn