New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-03
BOARD OF REGISTRATION.

STATE OF LouIsTA
June 30, 1856
At arsgular meeting Of the Board held on Tue
June 30, 1868, the following resolution was adol
Resolved, hat the time for t g final settle
Of the venti taxe BY the Tax C0ilsctOrsI
Sherifs throughout the State Gu the Audit
Public Accounts b. and is hereby extended n
first day of August, 1868
By virtue Of the foregoing resolution herebl
tify all Tax Collectors md Sheriffs throughout
State to continue to col ect the Convention d
to the first day of august, 1868. The Tax Cole
and Sherffs are further instructed that they vi
held responsible for rigid enforcementrof TIL
dinance adopted by the Convention January \
(which is hereinafter published for the informl
of ali concerned, exacting penalty for nonI
ment Of said tax.
The Convention rem tied all penalties up /!
twentieth day of March, 1865, and from that tin
penalty viii be exacted in all the parishes wher
tax lis were ready at that date, and thirty
after the tax rolls were completed in the Other
ishes the penalty will be exscted
The attention of Tax Collectors is also called
fact that the Commanding General refuses T.,
the courts to grant injnnctions re training
from Sc ling the property of delinquents to me u
payment of the Convention tax The Tax Ooll5
will be held resp ,nsible by the Auditor in hi
Element with them for the full amo unit of tn,
atty. S. B. PACKARD,
, CHARM
ORDINANCE.
SECTION l. Be it ordained by the Constitu
Convention OF the state of Louisiana, THAI
Sner W N ana 5sE Coeetors Of me state except
parish of jefferson, shall give notiee to the Ia
ers OF their respective parishes to pay the tax
mill per cent levied by ordinance OF the tv
fourth December 1867 by this Convention
thirty days aft er service Of said notice those
shall not have paid the tax dge by them shall b
sidered in default, aud the Sheritfs and Tar "a
Ors shall exact an additional TAX upon persons 81
twenty tive per cent upon the sum due by the
the first default. and an additional tax Of teA
cent to be computed on the original tax for (
subsequent thirty dap $ said pt rsons shall cor
to be In default, up to the date of the final
ment.
SEC 2. BE it further ordained, That the 81
and Tax Collectors of the city of New Orlean
leans right bank, and parish of Jefferson sha
public notice IN one newspaper published in
parish. call upon all taxpayers to pay the tax
by the ordinance of December twenty.four
mentioned, d all persons who shall not bav
the amounts due by them on account of said L
days after the pull licatiOn of the above reguin
tice thal pas an additional tax of twenty fl
cent on the original tax, aud an additional tax 4
and half per cent on the original tax of onk
shall be in default 49,
SEC 3. Be it fur her ordained, etc, Tha
mediately after the taxpayers shall have been
default by the expiration Of the thirty or ten
as the case may be, given in the notice requi
the tr-t and second sections of this ordinan
Sheriffs and Tax Collectors throughout the u
shall proceed to seize and sell, alter ten days
property of the deli Quent taxpayers, moyalk
immovable. sufficient 10 pay the original tax Z
dit onal taxes herein levied. and costs.
Adopted in Convention at the city of Ne
leans, this fourth day of January. Anuo
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
(Signed) JAMES q. TALIAFERRd
President of the Convent
GSigne6 WILLIAM YIGERS,
jyl Dl0tW2t Secre;