New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-30
CIRCULAR.
INSTRUCTIONS TO TAX COLLECTORS.

STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Auditors Office, 7
New Orleans, January rs. 1874.
The following instructions are issued tor the
il nation and guidance Of tax col ectors through
out the State:
l. Fourteen and half mills on the dollar having
been fixed as the rate OF taxation for all State
purposes for the year 1874, you will extend and
collect at this rate your assessment rolls for the
year 1873, apportionng to the several funds fol
lows:
Mills.
Henerai iunu- .''.................. ...........
Schooi lund ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Interest fund. So
AeVee 'u1id. ..............
AL collectite in eurYelcy..... ..1I4s
g. You will also proceed with the collection of
delinquent taxes on the rolls in your possession.
as the same TOW carried out thereon the
whole being twenty one and half mills. OF this
amount the following MUst he collected in cur
seney only. 10 Wit:
Mills.
Levse construction and repair .................S
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Penalties and costs on delinquent taxes due che
above funds are also collectible i'll currency.
aho luc tWtuty -Out aGu - VIZ
fourteen and half mills, together with penalties
and costs accompanying the same and back licenses,
u.s. under Che provisions of section fifteen of act No.
3, approved Sanuary "a, 1914, c,llectible either
in cash or Auditors warrants issued for CLAIMS due
prior to january 1874 Foy this portion of he
delinquent taxes all State warrants issued 1)r
services rendered claims due prior to January +,
1874 are receivable. except such affected
by injunct IONS VIZ
$l4 600 Issued under acts Tos 30 a,a 700 Of 1870.
during the months of August, September. and
October, 1872, to W. 4. Weed Il Co.
5000 issued under act No. so of 1878 during the
month of March, 1873, to various parties.
3. You will also proceed at one, with the collec
fion of licenses for the current year, making ys-
QUESTION this office for the necessary blanks.
licenses 40 well az taxes for the current gear
are all receivable IN cuYreuc. only.
1. All taxes are que and collectibie OF q e first
day VI February in each year. 1t has been susts-
mary to delay collections until rhe fall months.
but this is OF required by law, and is productive
of serious Inconvenience to this office as well to
collectors. You will be required to the utmost
diligence in making many collections as possible
early in the year. In most cases it is easy and
in portions of the State it is convenient
for taxpayers 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
fo- mer system is desirable in order to relieve this
and the Treasurers offices from the confusion
which results from crowding 60 much Of the busi'
ness of the year into the last few days of Decem-
Der, and at time when our books should be bal.
anced in order to prepare annual reports
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 s strictly
prohibited. These Ieceipts must be used for beth
current and delinquent taxes collected; but in
ease must one yeceip: cover :axes 5og mere than
one year.
Sad tax receipt BOOKS viii. III future, be held as
part of The records of the colleo tors office and
upon the final settlement the book Of books con-
tanning the stubs ard remaining unused receipts
must be returned to this Office.
tachreceip given TO Taxpayers should be mum.
Sefed, and the stub from which i was detached
must bear che corresponding: number and in all
other respects be properly ALLIED Up as indicates!
theyeO0s
CHARLES CLINTON,
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