Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1848-09-23

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last number we made some remarks reIa-
tive 10 the specific tax imposed.''y the polio
Sims, &c. The Importance Of the subject
has aruu ed the attention of the citizens OF
the corporation, and steps, we have no
| doubt, will soon b. taken 10 seek redress.
Although the citizens of the corpuration
have a heavy tar 10 pay for Keeping mp OF
roads and bridges, the ma n enance Of pau
pers, &C., they have never refused TO pay
TO the parish their quota of taN"s on the
value oftheir real estate and slaves, even
when refused a cent from the funds Of the
parish for any purpose whatever-but they
are not y illing TO have any extra and I'M
called for taxes imposed on them and will
not quietly submit to it. The specific tax
in question il levied will amount to about
fifteen hundred dollars, and the tax on real
estate and negroes will amount to about
fifteen hundred dollars more-tbus at a time
when a tax of SO, 665 Is levied, the CO. po-
ration, though not receiving one cent OF
the funds of the parish, Is made to pay one
half of its taxes.-t is ridicUlOus-ii ls
strangel Let us at once ask for our emafl-
c~ipation from parish taxe0, we ask the
parish no odds, we receive nothing from
them, and ought to he determined that II
will not continue to- he an onero,ls expense
TO us--it the parish after receiving otlr
funds in its Golfers refuses to give us a cent
for our good, for Heavens sake let il not
he suffered to do any harm In 1880 II
Jaw was passed by the police jury granting
two hundred dollars per2",annrm payable
quarterly on the warrant of the corpora
ton, which sum shall be applied to the
support Of the paupers residing within said
corporation. After paying the said tax for
sixteen years the police jury thought Wtse
~, no dU,tbt. hat even that sinai p~ittante
was too much To- bestow on a portion .oI
the parish which paid about half the taxes,
aud repealed said law. The corporation
in lS47 paid about $l400 for paupprs,
temporary relief, apothecaties bills, doc
tors salary, the burying of indigents, &c,
where we have no doubt the parish for the
same purposes did not pay $500, A prom
inent member Of the police jury told lis
sotne days ago that had we, or some other
person had represented to The police jury the
facts we state, that bin would not have
~passed-thus IL il, we have no fair repre-
sentation-we have lut two members and
one oithem lives IN the sixth ward, about
htne miles from the ward he represents,
and WIS not present when the bill was
passed, thus il Is we are made to feel The
baAeiul effects Of partial legislation, The
parish members seems to be at war with
the corporation and determined to oppose
its interest, why Ia this 7 II is clear that
the citizens ofthe corporation have the
power to get rid Of said taxes then let
them act. Let no compromises be acted
upon unless it he, that the parish shall lay
no specific taxes and shall pay a proper
ton OF our paupcr tax we may be salts.
fled with paying u proportionate tax on
slaves and real property, the same as the
other portions of the parish pay, but any
tax on trades, professions, stores, billiards,
bar rooms, DC, we shall oppose, or re-
fuse to pay n parish tax altogether, unless
we deem II absolutely necessary, which
might have been the case last year, but is
not certainly repaired this year,