Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-06-20
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:, SATURDAY EVENING. JUNE 20.
ToTHE TAXPAYERS OF VIRGINIA
TAXATION UNDER THE PROPOSED
CONSTITUTION.

The attention of the white people-the prop
erty holding, tax paying people Of the State
is asked to the following statement, based on
the reports of the commissioners of the reven-
ue of the real and personal property 10 the
State, filed according to law in the Office of
the auditor of the State:
Total value of real estate in
the State of Virginia, 1924, l43, 40 Sc
Total value of personal proper
ty in Che State Of Virginia, 4o,1so,54o 90
Total value of real estate and
personal property in the
State of Virginia, 70 1884, 1924, 0lO O5
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State tax at 5 mills on the dol $l,G7l, 62O 05
County and public free school
district tax at mills On
the dollar, 1,67l,62OO5
State capitation tax at one
dollar per capita, 22l,04l 90
County capitation tax at fifty
cents on the dollar, llO,52O 90
Total tax for school purposes, $3,674,SOl 10
Ordinary expenses Of government, 650,000 90
Special appropriations to literary
and benevolent institutions, 145, 900 90
Interest on the public debt at Il
per cent, 100000 90
@ -. .z4r3u s7,O49, solr 10
This statement does not embrace either the
county levy Except for school purposes or any
tax payable to the United States Government;
when these are added, the aggregate amount
of taxes for all purposes which the people may
expect to be required to pay, should this con-
stitution be adopted, will not fall far short Of
nine millions Of do liars, or nearly three per
ct. on the total value of the real aud personal
property in the State; nearly So in the hun.
dred dollars value of their property, instead Of
thirty cents, as at present.
1t will be seen that the maximum rate OF
Eve mills in the dollar lone halt of one per cent?
authorized by the constitution for school pur-
poses, is assumed as the tax for the first year,
which will probably be levied, in view OF the
fact that school houses in all the school districts
must be built, and all the necessary furniture,
books, &C., must be provided But it may be
safely assumed, when it is considered who will
levy this tax and who will have it to pay, that
it will never be less in any year, and il long
continued, will amount to virtual confscation
of the property of the whites for the bene6tof
the blacks and their abandoned white associ
ates. By the constitution the State is so
Gerrymandered as to give the negroes major
ity of twenty one in the Legislature; add to
this the effect of the disqualifying l4th amend
ment and the test oath (iron. clad) embraced in
it in excluding the whites, and it is plain they
will control the Legislature and may just tax
as they please, and spend as they please.
Owning no property and paying no taxes them
selves not even the capitation tax, as the re
turns to the auditors Office show,) who can
doubt that taxation will be carried to the ex-
treme limit? And that considering what sort
ofpeople will be to collect and account for the
taxes, much of them will he split before they
are applied to any purpose whatever? Thus
are our people brought face to face with p'ecu.
this vile fraud and imposture.
BY order of the State Conservative Com
mitee. K. L. DANIEL, Chairman.
Richmond, Va, June Is, 1868. at@