The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-03-06
MESCELLANEOES.
TARCULAR.
TRUCTIoNs TO TAX COLLECTORS
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
AuditOr,c nfln,

STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Auditors Office,
New Orleans, January %, 1874.
me following instructions are issued for the
Information and guidance of tax collectors
throughout the State.
l. Fourteen and a half mills ON the dollar hay-
ing heel nXed as the rate of taxation for all
state purposes for the year 1874. YOU will extend
ana collect at this rate on your assessment rnI1S
Tor the year 1878, appOrtiOning to the several
FUNDS us follows:
con,u Mills.
ScnoOl
Interest fund
LcVce fund. ~
All collectablc in currency IA
:: 1on VII also proceed with the collection OF
detlnQucnt taxes on the rolls in your possession
as the same are now carried out thereon thn
whole being twenty-Onc and one half mills NJ
Ihls amount the follOwing must be collected in
currency only, to-wit:
co,o, ,uu Mills.
InTao -, .
Penalties and costs on delinquent due toyes
'HG ahSVt FUNDS are also collectable in currency.
Inc hiiancc OF thetwenty-One and a half mills
VIZ: fourteen and il half mills, together with
l'ellaltlcs ana costs accompanying the same and
nack hceilScs, Is. under the provisions of section
nltcch 0i me tlct No. 3, approved January "a,
1874, collectablG either in cash or Auditors war,
rants issued for claims duf. mior to Tonunr,1
M; FOR TINS portion of the delinquent taxes
all state warrants issued for services rcndered
or claims due prior to January l, 1874. are re-
cclVablc, except such as are affected by iniunc.
| tons, viz: 'N
Sal 900 issued under acts Nos. 90 and 100 of
1870, during the months of August. September
and October. 1872, TO W. \. 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 ut once with the col
lection OF licenses for the current year, making
requlSltlon on this office for the necessary blanks,
Licenses us well as taxes for the current year
are All receivable i'll currency only.
4. All taxes are due and cUilectabIe on the first
day OF February in each year. It has been Gus,
tOlnary todelay collections until the fall lnopfhs
but this is not required by law. and is prOduotive
OF serious inconvenience to this office as well az
to collectors, You will he required to Use the
utmost diligence in making as MANY collections
as possible early in the year. In most eases If il
as easy, and in some portions OF the State it in
more convenient for taxpayers to pay in the
spring months than later in the wear, In All
such eases there is no good reason for DELAY, and
a change from the former system is Desirable in
order to relieve this and the Trcasurer's Offices
from the confusion which results from providing
so much of the business of the wear into the last
few days of December, and at Il time when our
books should be balanced in order to prepare
annual reports.
5. Blank tax receipts in book form, with stnhs
attached, will be furnished by this office, and fhe
Issue OF any other, i'll receipt ~f0rtaxes, is strictly
prohibited. These receipts must he used for hath
current and delinquent taxes collcctei INT 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 the records of the collectors office.
ana upon the hnal settlement the book or books
containing the stubs and remaining unused re-
Ceipts must be returned to this office,
Each receipt given to taxpayers should he
numbered, and the stub from which it was de-
tached must bear the corresponding number.
and III al other respects be properly filled un as
CHARLES CLINTON,
lch 6-l1 Auditor.