Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-16

10 a comparative statement Of the State and
county taxes for the years 1860 and 1867, send
ysu the following figures as being correct, to-
wit.
STATE TAX FOR 1860.
! For Insane Asylum, on each 500 worth
=, Of taxables.......~...-....,-.:...-... x cent
Of taKables...;..:..,,.... cents
For Common School purposes. on each
500 worth Of cents
/ For contingent fund, on each 500 worth
Of taxables....-.-..-...-......-..-......-2 cents
! Total State tax on Sl00 Of real and per
boual prOperty...-.-..-.-.. cents
COUNTY TAX FOR 1860.
For county purposes. on each 800 worth
of 81 cents
/ For Common School purposes. on each
500 worth Of cents
| For Railroad purposes, on each
| 500 worth Of taxables cents
| Total county tax on 500 on real aud
personal property for l86O...............30 cents
State and county tnx for 1862. .........37 cents
state poll tax for 1850 in additions u
sTATETAx FOR 1867.
For State purposes, on eaen 500 worth
Of ies........-.. -.-.--........2 cents
For Common School purposes, on each
500 worth Of axables...................26 cents
Total State tax on each 500 worth of
real and personal property for ls67....-45 cents
COUNTY TAX FOR 1867.
For county purposes, on each 800 worth
Of real and personal property 20 cents
| For railroad purposes, on each 800
worth ofreal and personal property.-40 cents
Total county tax on each 500 worth Of
real znd personal property for 1867 go cents
state and county tax for 1867 on each
NlU property ---...,- %
State poll tax for 1867 in addition..-s1 50
Yours, respectfully.
P.L. NIcHoL. Clerk.
The taxes assessed in 1860 on property
exclusive Of slaves and polls was about
S27l 600 In that year the land in East
Tennessee was assessed at a valuation of
S.. Is, in Middle Tennessee at 1884 and
in West Tennessee at $500 Upon the
same valuation, the tax on real and per-
sonal property this year viii amount to
about 81 100000, while the poll tax win
reach at least S225,0OO if all subject to
that tax be returned We have thus
nearly 81, 100000 as the tax imposed upon
property and polls, while the tax upon the
same in 1860, slaves included, amounted
to only 1912, 100 The tax on privi-
leges has been largely increased, but
not 50. great as on property and
polls, but sufficient to bring the tax
assessment this year up to $l,800,0O0 or
100000 These figures will show the
people what Radical rule is costing them.
In 1860 me tax for common school
purposes was p cents on the 500 of tax
able property; now it is 20 cents, an
increase Of eight fold and yet there is
not to-day a common school in operation
in the State When the revenue law Of
May "A, 1868, was passed, it was supposed
that the taxes had been sufficiently in
creased to furnish money to pay the in
terest on the State debt and the current
expenses Of the State, and the Legisla-
ture, in a spirit of liberahty, enacted that
after doing this, "the sum Of eight hum
bred thousand dollars be applied to COM
mon school purposes, in addition to
what is now allowed by law for said pur-
poses. Bear in mind that the taxes
imposed we're then regarded sufficiently
high to yield revenue to do all
this What has been she result The
interest on the State debt wss not paid
but funded by an additional issue
of State bonds, and the 100000 has
never been applied to common school
purpose, neither has that NOW allowed
by law for said purposes All this has
gone to pay the extravaganza Of the
Observation-Disclosures administration such
as $32j,7S5 for legislative expenses,
90,29S for printing $Sl ,279 for metro-
politan police, S30,954 for Governors
staff, $I3,5SO for bank commissioners
and attorneys, and at least 100000 on
account Of the penitentiary that should
not have been expended, as with proper
management, that institution could have
been made to pay its own expenses.
Under the circumstances, the expenses
Of the Legislature, including public print
ing, should have been confined TO Sl00,>
600 We have in these few items over
half million dollars, wrung from an i'm
poverished and oppressed people, utterly
thrown away But the amount is much
larger, as may be readily shown by the
expenditures Of this administration. The
people of Tennessee see in these items
for what they are so heavily taxed. Ii is
to support the most extrayagant admins
tration we have ever had, and these men
hold out not the slightest hope these bur-
dens will be lightened if they shall be
-, 1870. E,r on,4hnr farm