The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-03-13
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INSTRUCTIONS TO TAX COLLECTORS.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Auditor's Office.

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STATE OF LOUISIANA, }
New Orleans, January %, 1874.
The following instructions are issued for the
and guidance of tax collectors
throughout the state.
/. Fourteen and a half mills on the dollar hav-
ing been fixed as the rate Of taxation for all
State purposes for the year 1874, you will extend
for the year 1873, apportioning to the several
funds as follows:
st@ Mills.
School fund
4nleIesI uha 81
LeVee
r A col1eetable In currency. ~ 14&
2. You will also proceed with the collection of
delinquent taxes Oh the rolls in your possession.
as the same are now carried out thereon, the
whole being twenty-one and ono half mills, OF
this amount the following must BIO collected in
as55 Mills.
HRlASNA utAN - 4
Levee construction and repair. 5
Penalties and costs on delinquent due taxes
the above funds are also cOlleGtahle in currency.
The balance of the twenty-oIle and O half mills,
yia: fourteen and q half mills,' together with
penalties and costs accompanying the same and
back licenses, is. under the provisions of section
fifteen of the act No. 3, approved January "a,
1874, colleetable either III cash or Auditors war
rants issued for claims due, prior to January !,
1874. For this portion of the delinquent taxes
all State warrants issued for services rendered
or claims due prior to January ], 1874, are re-
eelyaAle, except such as are affected by injunc-
tfOIs, viz
sI41 900 issued under acts Nos. 90 and 100 of
1870, during the months of August. September
and October, 1872, to W. A. Weed 81 Co. !
s97OO issued under act No. 5oof 1878, during the
month of March, 1878, to various parties,
3. fpn WlH also proceed at once with the col
lection of licenses for the current year, making
requisttion Oh thisoffice for the necessary blanks.
Licenses as well as taxes for the current year
are all receivable In currency only,
4. AL taxes arr, due and cpllectable on the first
day pf February In each year. 1t has been GUS
toflary todelay cOfleetionsn until the fall months,
but this is not required by low, and is productive
OF seI1ops inconvenience TO this office as well as
to collectors. Son Will be required to use the
utmost diligence In making as many collections
as possible early in the year. In most cases it Is
as easy, aud In some portions Of the State it is
spring months than later in the year. In all
such cases there is no good reason for delay, aid
a change from the former sy steln IL desirable In
order to- relieve this aud the Treasurer's offices
from the confusion which results fr0ll crpWdiig
so much af the business Of the year into the last
few days of December, and at q time when our
books should be balanced in order to prepare
annual reports.
s. Blank tax receipts in book form, with stubs
attached, viii be furnished by this office, and the
issue Of any other, IN receipt for taxes, Is strictly
prohibited. These receipts must be used for both
current and delinquent taxes collected but In
NO case must one'reeeipt cover taxes for more
than one Se
Said tax receipt books win, in future, be held
asnaftnf the records. Of the COLLECTORS office,
aIid HHnM tie final settlement the book or books
containing tlesstIbs ana remaining ungtsed re-
eetpta must be returned to this office.
Each receipt given to taxpayers should be
numbered, and the stub from which IL was de-
taehed must bear the corresponding number,
ana IN all other respects be properly filled up as
indicated thereon.
CHARLES CLINTON,
FEB e~tf Auditor.