Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-02-18

purpose of raising srevenne therefrom; !;
one hundred cents on the hundred dollars
of all salaries, including public officers, ex.
cept officers of the Army and Navy, and on
all wages, from whatever source derived, ex.
cept wages of FIVE hundred dollars or less
per annnm. & s%F r
: II. All taxes levied on nproperty, as pre-
scribed 10 the irsttseotion Of this Act, shall
be paid to the Tax Collector for the tar dis
,trict in which said property is located 8 Pro.
oidetl, that where negroes have been re-
moved from any Districts or Parishes by
reasonsof. the dangers arising fromsthe in
vasion. CT occupation thereof by the enemy,
it shall be lawful to pay the taxes upon the
same to the Tax Collectors of the Districts
sor Parishes from which said negroes were
removed. That allstaxes levied on proper
ty irf this State during the continuance OF
III 3 war between the Confederate and Uni.
ted States of America, may paidin Con-
federate notes or other current funds, the
commissions to be received by the various
Tax Collectors Of this State, for the year
commencing on the first day Of October,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-twe,
shalIbe at the rate Of seventy per centum
Of the commissions now allowed them BY
lay, except suph Districts and Parishes as
pay an amount less than eight hundred
dollars to the Collector.
ELI. The Tax Collectors in the several
Districts and Parishes in this State, in their
returns hereafter to be made, are hereby re.
aniIed and enjoined to state the precise,
amounts of taxes collected by them for sup
porting the police Of the said several Dis.
tricts and Parishes aforesaid, stating the
rates per centum on the amounts Of the
State tax collected for said District and
Parish police purposes, and the total q.
mount Of commissions received by each and
every of such Tax Collectors, and the rate
per ceutum of his commissions, and the
Comptroller General shall return, the same
in his report.
". Free negroes mulattoes and mesti.
zoes are hereby required to make their re-
turns aud pay their taxes during the month
of April; and the Tax Collector Of St. Phil
lips and st. MichaePs is allowed until the
month of June to receive the taxes of white
persons.
Y. The lots and houses onsullivan's ISL
and shall be freed from taxation during the
existing war between the Confederate States
and the United States of America, the same
being used by the troops Of the Confederate
States or by the works for defence.
VI. That the Tax Collectors be agthor-
fised to extend the time for the receipt, and
also for the payment Of taxes, and also for
the payment thereofinto the Treasury Of
this State, for period of thirty days be.
yond the periods therefor hitherto allowed
by law.
VII. That the sum of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, received by Wilmot
G. DeSaussure, as Agent Of the State,
from the Confederate Government, and by
him paid into the Treasury of this State,
under the resolution of the Confederate
Congress relative to the conaagration in
the city of Charleston on the eleventh day
of December, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty one, and aleo, all such other sums
of money as may be received from the Con.
felerate Government during the present
year and placed in the Treasury, be sub.
ject to such appropriations as may be made
by the General Assembly Of this State.