The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-22
each; five of fifty dollars each;
four Licenses of one hundred
dollars each; which l agree to
collect or return to him or his
successor in office. -
J. A. HERON,
Tax Collector.

/ Tax Collector.
Received, Bellevue, Louisi-
ana, March 10Th, 1872, of Jas.pf
n. Platt,president Police Jury,
the following parish Licenses
| for the year ending Dec. 31st,
1872; for which [ am to return
or otherwise account for, viz:
Forty License at S15 each; for
ty Licenses at S65 each; ten
ILicenses at S25 each; five Lii
censes ait $50 each; twelve Lii
I ,censes at 80 each; twenty-five
!, Licenes at $40 each; ten Licens- {
es al, s75 each; two Licenses at
4 $780, 90 each; FIVE Licenses at j
s5'each. '2Voh JHA. HERKoN,
!, II = Tax Col. Bossier parish.
4 LciW9aBaker, president of p
7 the BoarH of School Directors
Of the parish of Bossier, La,
then presented the following
1 petition in words and figures !
4 as follows, to-vTit :nG la9ws 81
II To THE POLICE jury OF Bos :
sIER PARIsH-ffeatLemen In be- I,
half of the people of Bossier9
parish, Twill say 20 you, that, as
President of the School Board OF
Bossier, L have repeatedly de-
manded of Z. w. Conway, State
Superintendent of Education, and
James Graham, Auditor of Louis
. lana, a report of the amount, of
poll tax fund due to Bossier par.
islI, and that they have positively
) refused to render such account.
i Previous to the year 1870, the
n law provided, That ninety per
cent. of the poll tax should be ap-
propriated exclusively to Public
School purposes, in the parishes
where the same was paid, and the
balance to charitable purposes.
0 See r, r. S., Secs, 1926 and 1926.
nj BY the Revenue Act of 1870,
( and subsequent enactments on
B1 the subject-this law was changed
, -onlyin this: That ten per cent. of
the poll tdr shall be paid into the
4 State Treasury, to the credit of the
Charity Hospital fund. See act No.
y 6S, Ext. Ses. 1870, p, 127, sec. 8;
n Act No. 42, 1871, p. 1O5, sec. 3;
K Act No. IA, 1872, sec. l..
t., This ninety per cent. Of the poll
S tax is not a part of the State
Or School Revenue, see Act No. 6.
!. Ext. Ses. 1870, p. 90, secs. 81 and
% 35; neither does the law provide
for any of the State officers to re-
- ceive, control, keep or pay out the
Il
: same; and, since 1871, no liability
? attaches to State Tax Collectors
:, on their bonds for the poll tax, as
- is not assessed and charged
~ against them by the State. See
~ Act No, AZ, 1871, p.l 11S, sec. 40. :
III In the years 1868, 1860 and 1870
IN there were more than $500 per-
ys sons in Bossier parish liable for
I'd poll taxes, which shows a deficit,
lg OF d delinquency, in favor of the
d. parish of about S11, 900 at the end
al of the year 1871, and for the pres
.. ent year there will be about $4,000
q more due from the same source,
90 making the sum of about $4,000
a of money belonging to the people
Of Bossier parish, in. the hands et
- irresponsible parties. d
''' As the authority of your hon.
orable body to act for the people
u. of Bossier parish, extends to the
ord control and safe keeping of al
es1 parish Revenues and Rights, mo-
w othsfpoise prorided for By Begista
it: tire eRactments, you should Ger
- ~, 1th IN 30 I