The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-02-06


before them the Auditors instructions
% lax Collectors as they were officially
STATE OF LOUISIANA. !
Auditors Office, 7
New Orleans, Jan. %, 1874. }
The following instructions are issued
Tor the information and guidance OF
tax collectors throughout the State.
l.. tourteen and half mills on the
dollar having been fixed as the rate of
taxation for all State purposes for the
yearI1s74; you will extend and collect
at this rate on your assessment rolls for
the year 1873, apportioning to the sew
eral funds as follows:
Mills.
General fund.-. ...........,..
Interest fund 81
All collectible in curren cy...........14
z. You will also proceed with the
collection of delinquent taxes on the
rolls in your possession, as the same
are now carried out thereon, the whole
being twenty-one and one-half mills.
or this amount the following must be
collected i'll currency only, to-wit:
Mills.
Lcvce construction and repair. 3
Penalties and costs on dciinuuent
taxes due the above funds are also col
lectible in currency.
The balance of the twenty-one and a
half mills, viz: fourteen and a half
mills, together with penalties and costs
accompanying the same and back
licenses, is, under the provisions of
section fifteen of act No. 3, approved
January "a, 1874, collectibie either in
cash or Auditors warrants issued for
claims due prior to January I, 1874.
For this portion OF the delinquent taxes
all State warrants issued for services
rendered Or claims due prior to Janua-
ry l, 1874, are receivable, except such
as are affected by iniunctions, viz:
$141,O0O issued under acts Nos. 80
and 100 of 1870, during the months of
August, September, and October, 1872,
to w. A. Weed & Co.
$1,000 issued under act No. so of 1878,
during the month Of March, 1873, to
various parties.
5. You Will also proceed at once with
the collection of licenses for the current
year, making requistion on this office
for the necessary blanks.
Licenses as well rs taxes for the cur
rent year are all receivable in currency
only.
4. All taxes are due and collcctible
on the first day of February in each
year. 1t has been customary to delay
collections until the fall months, but
this IS not required by law, and is pro-
ductive of serious Inconvenience to this
office as well rs to collectors. You will
be required to use the utmost diligence
in making as many collections IT'S pos
slble early in the year. In most cases
1t is as easy, and in some portions of
the State it is more convenient for tax
payers to pay in the spring months
than later in the year. In all such
cases there is no good reason for delay,
and change from the former system
IS desirable in order to relieve this and
the Ircasurer'S offices frO.n the confu-
sion which results from croWding so
much OF the business of the year into
the last few days OF December, and at
a time when our books should be bal
anced in order to prepare annual re-
ports.
5. Blank tax receipts in book form,
with stubs attached, will be furnished
by this Office, and the issue of any
other, in receipt for taxes, is strictly
prompted. These receipts must be
used for both current and delinquent
taxes collected but in no case must
one receipt cover taxes FOR more than
one year.
Said tax receipt books will, in future,
be held as part of tho records of the
collectors Office, and upon the final
the book or books contain
ing tho stubs and remaining unused
receipts must be returned to this office.
Each receipt given to taxpayers
should be numbered, and the stub
from which it was detached must bear
Tho corresponding number, and in all
other respects be properly filled up us
indicated thereon.
CHARLES CLINTON,
Auditor.
These arc the names of the persons