New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-12

Further Extension OF Time for settling
with the Auditor.
Lt Board OF REe1sTRArIoN,
state of Louisiana, =
New Orleans, April e. 1858 }
At a regular meeting of the Board, held on
Wednesday, April %, 1868, the following
resolution was adopted:
Resolued, 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,
1865.
By virtue of the foregoing resolution, |
hereby notify all Tax Collectors and Sherlfts
throughout the State to continue to collect
the Convention tax up to the nrst day oil
June, 1868.
The Tax Collectors and Sheriffs are fur
Their instructed that they Will be held re-
sponsible for q rigid enforcement OF the
ordinance adopted by the Convention Jauu.
ary 4, 1868 (which is hereinafter published
for the information of all concerned), ex.
acting penalty for nonpayment OF s@o
tax.
The Convention RENTED all penalties up
TO the twentieth day of March, 1865, and
from that time the penalty will be eXacted
in all the parishes where the tax rolls were
ready at that date, and thirty days after the
tax rolls were completed in the other par
ishes the penalty will be exacted.
S. B. PACKARD, Chairman.
Il, e. RICHARDSON, Secretary. apo lot
oRDINANCE.
SEC gqNt3. Be IL ordained By 1te Constit's
tiondL comb, afioi ~ the State Of louisiana,
That the hA IFS I'd tax collectors of the
State, EXCEPT OF the city ofNew Orleans, Or
leans Right Sank, and parish of Jefferson,
shall give notiee to the taxpayers Of their
respective parishes to pay the tax of one
min per cent, levied by ordinance of the
twenty-fourth December, 1867, by this Con.
yention; 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 Twenty-Five per cent upon the sum due
by them for the first default, and an addi-
tional tax of ten 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. 2. Be it further ordained, That the
sherifis and tax collectors OF the CITY OF
New Orleans, Orleans right bank, and par
ish 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
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 ia
default.
SEC. 3. Be it further ordained etc, That
Immediately after the taxpayers shall have
been put in default by the expiration Of the
thirty or ten days, az the case may e,given
in the notice required by the first and sec.
ond sections of this ordinance, the sheriffs
and tax collectors throughout the State
shall proceed to seize and sell after ten daye
notice property of the delinquent taXpay
ers, movable or immoyabie, 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 sixtyeight,
(Signed) JAMES G. FALIAFERRO, n
President Of the Convention.
(Signed) WILLIAM V1GERS,
myl l5t Secretary.