The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-15
THE NEW TAX LEVY.
IN AGGREGATE STATE And COUNTY
TA1OF sEVENfEEN MILLS.
The Tax for Interest on tho Public
Debt Based on a Bonded Debt OF Ten
Million Dollars-Tho Scrip Case-EIec-
tion Returns.
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COLUMBIA, Novemberl4.
Comptroller. General Neagle will tomorrow
issue circulars to the various county officers
fixing the rates of the tax levy for 1872. They
will be as follows: For general purposes, siz
mills; for school purposes, two mills; for in.
terest on the public debt, elk mills; for county
purposes, three mills-total, seventeen mills
An effort was to-day commenced to obtain
from the proper legal officers an opinion to
the effect that no county tax to exceed three
mllls could be levied. The six mills tax, for
the payment of interest on the public debt,
is tased upon debt OF ten millions of dollars
It mas trauspred that Messrs. Pope and
Haskell, counsel In the case of the State ez
rel. E. F. Gary, late State Auditor, vs. the
State and county treasurers, otherwise com.
monty known as the Blue Ridge scrip case,
have refused to go on further as counsel in
the matter until they are paid portion Of
their fees, and Comptroller General Neagle,
who Is now virtually State auditor, under the
acts of the last General Assembly apparently
to show that he was In earnest In the prose.
cutIon of the test Of the validity Of the scrip
act-hss given his own check for five hundred
toward paying the counsel. Your correspond
ent also saw In his hands to-day, In the hand
writing of Governor Scott, three orders on
the Governors contingent fund, for five hum
dred dollars each, In favor Of e. F. Gary, and
two orders, on the same fund, In favor OF
Messrs. Pope and Haskell, for FIVE hundred
each, which, he was informed by the holder,
(Neagle,) had been taken up by him. making,
therefore, altogether three thousand dollars
as the test of Neagle's earnestness, as an off,
Ger OF the Slate, In the prosecution of the
scrip matter
It Is stated that an application is to be made
tomorrow TO Judge Melton for an Injunction to
restrain the present State treasurer from is.
suing any of the moneys to be collected under
present levy In any manner. This movement
ls said to be In the Interest OF certain holders
Of pay certificates mistrustsd to be bogus.
The State canvassers have concluded all
their labors save the Charleston case, which
comes up tomorrow. Blythe, of Greenville,
is confirmed as solicitor Of the Eighth Circuit.
The Lancaster case was decided as expected
by the county commissioners. Elliott appear
ed for the contestants, and Colonel Wylle for
contestees. C. W. Butts has received for soil.
cltor of the First Circuit 175e majority.
At the executive department twenty coun.
ties have made returns of the Presidential
vote cast. These give Grant majority OF
80, 500. The twelve counties remaining to be
heard from will swell this majority to nearly II
not quite $4,000. Lexington County, which
went Democratic In hesitate election, gives
Grant 553 majority.
Tie epizeotic ls spreading here, and there
are thirty cases In one stable. Only one death
is reported as yet.
One span of q bridge over the Wateree
River Is reported to have fallen 10 to- day. No
one Injured.
The woman whom c0roner's Inquest yes
tsrday found guilty of child murder has been
arrested.
Many members elect of the Legislature and
scores of county officers are here, Including
Senator Galllar6 and others from Charleston.
SANTEE.