Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-09-08
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I'LL MOUTH, Inn, AUG. 81, losu.
Editor Repnbiicon.-I saw in your
issue of the 18th of August, from Bour-
bon correspondent, an account of one of
the Plymouth "cliquc' going round col
leciing taxes. He says that the collector
charged few cents or few dollars oyer
and above the usual amount of interest.
costs and percentage. Does correspondent
know what he is talking about2 Or is he
dreaming? The facts are these The law
allows the collector constable's fees for
the collection of delinquent taxes, and
that is what | take and no more and til at
fee is in addition TO the interest and pen
atty, and. of course that fee docs moi 60
into the pocket Of the Bourbon cores
ponGent. He says that in one instance,
| charged S. 10 one man for dog tax for
twelve months for one dog 1 did no
such thing, | have nothing to do with
charging the tax. and any but a sap-Lead
knows better than that. He says the
man followed me to town. lie did not
do it. He with The rest oil those who
we're delinquent met me--or were 10 meet
me in Bourbon, and there is where il was
all done. did give him back So 90, for
he claimed that iheIe was mistake in the
books. gave it back with the assurance
from him that lie would bring his receipts
and compare them with The books at the
court house, and if he was wrong, he
would pay it back. The s. for dog lax
was for the year 1869 and former yeas.
and not for Ole year only. Although he
had his 1868 receipt, which showed that
his dog tax had been paid, but so ne OF
his elder receipts showed ihst he had not
paid on dog.
Another way of getting few cents was {:
where the tax was S25, and 81 was paid
on ii, charged full per cent. Now, Mr..
citizen it is worth as much 10 travel five
miles for So, as ii is 10 travc. the same
distance for $50, as far as the milage,
service and return fee is concerned.
Now. when man tells me7that he will
pay the res; in few. take my costs out
and give him q, receipt accordingly, and
his next receipt will be made out without
further cost Ia him. l could name a
number of them, il necessary, "for
receipts after being written and signed
won't lie." When first begun the busl-
ness, when q man would pay part, with
u promise that the remainder would be
paid ID lew days, | gave him credit for
the full amount and reserved nothing for
my trouble; the rest was not paid at all
and experience taught me that II was a
dodge To keep me from getting my dues.
| quit that, and concluded that men can
wait on me as easily as for me to wait on
them. II is curious that all men are
honest but officers
lie says That such officers should be in
their wifes petticOats, aud on their way
to Canada Canada affects such men as
the Bourbon correspondent more than a
bug in his ear. Some men were opposed
To going TO war, and lived up to what
they professed by not going, others were
strong war men like our Bourbon cores
pondeut, and made a grand rush to get
the boys TO go in his place. He would
have been perfectly willing to have made
any sacrifice TO have put down the rebel
lion, even Ia the sacrificing all his wife's
relations. / will pay no more attention
to such correspondence, written by pig
mics. COLLECTOR.