New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-02

New Orleans, april - 1893.
At a regular meeting of the Board held on
Wednesday, April 80 1868, the following
resolution was adopted:
Resotoed, That the time for the final set
Element of the Convention taxes by the Tax
Collectors and Sheriffs throughout the State
with the Auditor of Public Accounts be and
is hereby extended to the first day of June,
1868.
BY virtue of the foregoing resolution,
hereby notify all Tax Collectors and Sherifis
throughout the State to continue to collect
the Convention tax up to the first day OF
June, 1858.
The Tax Collectors and sheriffs are fur
Their instructed that they will be held re-
sponsible for rigid enforcement of the
ordinance adopted by the Convention Janu.
ary 4, 1868 (Which is hereinafter published
Tor the information of all Concerned), ex.
acting penalty for non-paymeut of said
tax.
The Convention RENTED all penalties up
to the twentieth day Of March, 1868, and
from that time the penalty viii be exactcd
in all the parishes where the tax rolls were
ready at that date, and thirty days after the
tax rolls we're completed in the other par.
isaes the penalty will be exacted.
S. B. PACKARD, Chairman.
~ a. RICHARDSON, Secretary. ap30 I5t
SECFte l. BG il ordained By the C0HStitH-
ti0h0l Gov seatiOR IF the State Of Louisiana,
That She 81 riffs 81 4 tax collectors of the
State, exeep lpf the city ofNew Orleans, Or
leans Right Bank, and parish of Jefferson,
shall give notice to the TAXPAYERS OF their
respective parishes to pay the tax of one
mill per cent, levied by ordinance of the
twentyfourtk December, 1867, by this Con
vention and thirty days after service of said
notice, those who shall not have paid the
tax due by them shall be considered in de-
fault, and the sheritfs and tax collectors
shall exact an additional tax from such per.
sons of tlCentj fire per cent upon the sum due
by them for the first default and an addi-
tional tax Otter per cent to be computed on
The original tax for every subsequent thirty
days said persons shall continue to be in de-
fault, up to the date of the final settlement.
SEC. q Be it further ordained, That the
Sheriffs and staX collectors of the city of
New Orleans, Orleans right bank, and par
isA of Jefferson, shall by public notice in one
newspaper published in their parish call
upon all taxpayers to pay the tax levied by
the ordinance of December "a above men.
toned, and all persons who shall not have
paid the amounts due by them on account
of said tax ten days after the publication of
the above required notice shall pay an add.
tional tax Of twenty-five per cent on the
original tax, and an additional tax of two
and half per cent on the original tax of
one mill per cent for every subsequent ten
days said persons shall continue to be in
default.
SEC. 8, Be it further ordained, etc, That
Immediately after the taxpayers shall have
been put in default by the expiration OF the
thirty OF ten days as the case may be, given
in the notice required by the first and sec.
und sections of this ordinance, the sheriffs
and tax collectors throughout the State
shat proceed to seize and sell after ten days
notice property of the delinquent taxpay
ers, movable or immovable, sufficient TO
pay the original tax, all additional taxes
herein levied, and costs.
Adopted in Convention at the city of New
Orleans this fourth day of January, Ammo
Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
(Signed) JAMES G. TALTAFERRO
President Of the Convention.
tSigned) WILLIAM YIGER5,
my1 l5t Secretary.