The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-29

addition thereto the tax Of one-eighth Of
one per cent provided by this act shall be I'M
posed and levied.
The tax for the support of the State army,
called the metropolitan police, is commanded
BY section ~ Of the act of 1868, as follows:
That the Common Councils of the cities Of
New Orleans, Jefferson and Carrollton, and
the police iuries Of the towns of Algiers and
Gretna, and CT the parishes Of Orleans, JEFF
ferson and ST. Bernard are hereby respect
lively empowered and directed annually to
order and cause to be raised and collected,
by the tax upon the estate real and personal
subject to taxation according to law, within
tine said cities and parishes, the sums OF mo-
ney as aforesaid annually estimated and ap-
portioned as the share of such city or par
ishes of said total expenses of the metropoll-
tan police district.
Again, in Act No. 81 of 1870, section 5, it
is provided:
That all ordinances, resolutions or other
acts passed by said Councils of the city of
New Orleans, Jefferson City and Carrollton,
and the police juries of the parish OF Or
leans, Right Bank; parish of Jefferson, Rig ht
Bank ;.parish of Jefferson, Left Bank, and the
parish of ST. Bernard, passed after the pas
sage Of this act shall be null and void unless
the proportion of expenses applicable to said
cities, towns, police juries and parishes within
the Metropolitan Police District, and now
binding on them, be paid, or means provided
for the payment of the same; and for the
future, all said ordinances, resolutions and
other acts, shall be null and void unless pay
ment is made, or means are provided for the
payment of such expenses from the day they
become binding on said cities, towns, police
jnries and parishes.
The school tax is dictated by act No. s, ap-
proved February %, 1871, section Z, which
provides:
That the Board of School Directors for the
city of New Orleans shall, Immediately upon
their organization, and also at the commence
ment of each year thereafter, ascertain the
amount of funds necessary to carry on the
schools under their charge for the current
year, and report the same to the Board OF Ad-
ministrators of the city of New Orleans, who
shall, at such time as they may deem neces-
sary, levy the amount on the taxable property
of the city, and direct the same to be col
lected in the manner and at the time by them
deemed most desirable but the time shall not
exceed six months from the date OF their
notification of the amount required.
The city debt tax is prescribed by act No.
70, of 1872, section IA, which requires the
City Council to adopt annually estimates Of
receipts and expenditures, in November or
December, for the ensuing year; and in sec
ton Is it is provided that the Council shall
proceed, after the estimate of expenses, to
levy the annual taxes required by such esti-
mate. The first is 1.-The city debt tax, which
shall be based upon the detailed estimate of
the sinking fund and interest falling
due. No limit other than herein laid down
shall apply to this tax, which is hereby de-
clared q vested right of the bondholders
interested"
We make these quotations from the statute
books Of the Radical usurpation for the con-
veaiance of the readers of the BULLETIN and
to show the obstacles placed in the path OF
the present Mayor and Administrators and
their immediate predecessors.