The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-03-27

throughout the State.
/. Fourteen and a half mills on the dollar hay
ing been fixed as the rate OF taxation for all
State purposes for the year 1874, you will extend
and collect at this rate on your assessment rolls
for the year 1873, apporti0ning to the several
funds as follows:
Mills.
General fund 4
School
Interest fund 81
Leyee Il .--.-....... 8
All eollectable in currency. l4}
2. You win also proceed with the collection Of
delinquent taxes on the rolls iii your possession,
as the same are now carried out thereon, the
whole being ~tWentY-One and one half mills. OF
this amount the following must be collected in
Mills.
School 2
Interest .-.s-.- 9
Leyee construction and repair.--.... 8
Penalties and costs ON delinquent due taxes
the above funds are also coiIeetable in currency
The balance of the tWenty-one and o half mills,
viz: 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., approved January. "a,
1874 cOllectaDie either in cash or Auditors war
rants Issued for claims due, prior to January 1,
1874 For this portion of the delinquent taxes
all State Warrants issued for services rendered
or claims due prior to January /, 1874, are re-
~ Nb1RANs SA1SPpE uSAA 40 ~ AAAhllGLu ~ u
items, viz: At
Sal 600 issued under acts Nos. 30 and 100 of
1879, during the mouths of August, September
a1d October, 1872, TO Wa. Weed u Co.
S9700 issued under act No. so of1s73, during the
month of March, 1878, to various parties,
3. You will also proceed ut once with the col
lection of licenses for the current year, making
requisiti0n on this office for the necessary blanks.
Licenses as well It's taxes for the current year
are all receivable iH currency only.
f. AL taxes are due and c0leetable on the first
day of February in each year. 1T has been Gus.
teinary todelay collections until the fall months,
but this is not required bylaw, and is productive
ofSeFl0us Inconvenience to this Office as well as
to collectors. You will be required to use the
utmost diligence in makingias many collections
as possible early in the year. m most cases 1t is
as easy, and in some portions of the Statesit ib
more convenient for Taxpayers to pay i'm the
spring months than later in the year. III all
such cases there is no good reason for delay, and
a change from the former system is desirable in
order to relieve this and the Treasurer'a offices
from the confusion which results from crowding
SO much OF the business of the year into the last
few days OF December, and at atime when our
books should be balanced in order to prepare
annual reports.
3. Blank tax receipts in hook form, with stubs
attached, Will be furnished by this office, and the
issue Of any other, in receipt forta8es. ii strictly
prohibited. Thesereceipts must be used for both
current and delinquent taxes collected but In
10 ease must enc receipt cover taxes for more
than one year.
Said tax receipt books win, in future, be held
as part of the records OF the collectors office,
ana upon the nnal settlement the book or books
containing the stubs and remaining unused re-
eciptS must be returned to this ofi3e.
Each receipt given to taxpayers should be
numbered and the stub from which it was de-
tached must bear the corresponding number.
and IN all other respectsb be properly Allied mp as
indicated thereon.
ZEN s1tf AmGjto.