The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1875-02-16

and ttgo-ffths) c0untice 80 Roord
addition to above, sold lot Lew a,.r,tv v
- ,es ore provided by law to be ''suspended,
e o11ae - tarr;t,ry sufficient in amount 10
- = az (seyen and fourJyths) counties,
ND oo,,aI "a total of II is counties OF 4Oo
sanare miles each of territory, now dein-
onent and nuiiified for purposes OF current
rovanuns and expenditures TO the otate,
rnunties aud said Levee Boards.
By reference to tables marked A, b, =, u;
showing comparative statement OF otate anu
county leyies fer taxes, ordinary anu special
and statements of indebtedness Oh the 01ate
- MississiDpi. it will be seen that said leEles
nave been increasing greatly, year by year,
r;tb aIso an increasing State debt annually,
tin the past fiscal year of 1874, and which
condition of things are to very great ex,
tent charpable to the causes above reclted
and referred to, causing the burdens OF state
and county, as we'll as Leyee Board taxation,
to he greater than it otherwise would, ana
70 he borne by such current resources as are
not pulliied or complicated, as heretofore
and herein recited, and further causing, In
MANY counties, q great depreciation OF oDll-
cations representing county debts, ana on
this account excessive levies to meet current
county expenditures, etc., etc, ana other
facts connected Herewith, to be reclted or
referred to. to-wit: That the taxpayers did
paw taxes on the greater portion of said tax
lands in the several counties throughout
the State, for the fiscal years 1866, 1901,
1868, 1869 and 1870, and until the flscal
year 1871, when, upon a re-assessment OF Ihe
realty of the State, said lands were put on
the assessment rolls of that year as State
lands, and the owners were denied the PRIV
ilege of paying the current taxes OF 1911,
and again of the subsequent years OF lo|z
and 1873, on occount of said claim or the
State on same. till provided for under the
Acts to quiet tax titles" ETC., ETC., and the
amendments thereto, and other laws peril
nent (see laws 1872, 1873 and 1874 the
availability of said laws for further delln-
ouent revenues on account of said lands, and
others, being to great extent exhausted.
By reference to the Levee Commissioners
reports 1872, 1878 and 1874, to-wit: Report
to session of 1872, pages 4, 5, E, z, 8, 3 and
10, it will he shown that the complications
on account of sales and errors Of sale Of
lands for leyee taxes, payment OF taxes on
same tor subsequent, years by the former
owners. to the tax collectors while still
claimed by the Levee Boards, on account OF
sales for taxes previously, the States claim
of paramount title on account of sale for war
taxes, ETC., ETC., and conflicting interests in
reference to liens for levee taxes, has like
wise resulted in the notification of the
eleven (11) counties embracing the Liqui-
dating Levee Districts, for the purposes of
current revenues and expenditures, and that
prior to the taeO Of 1871 providing for the
office of Levee Commissioner, and other
matters pertaining to the former Boards,
approved May 18th, 1919 and September
Al II
was put in charge of the books and papers
containing the transactions of the previous
period of four years and five months, and
as recited from said Levee Commissioners
report to January LIST, 1872, page 5, there is
shown to have accrued an actual increase of
debt to an amount of about $4,000 in ex-
cess of the original aggregate of recognized
Indebtedness, on account OF the excess OF
interest over amount Of taxes collected;
and by reference to subsequent years re-
ports and estimates, made as to time for
final liquidation, it is shown that while the
original estimate for 1867 was fUe gears
taxation at five and three cents per acre, at
the time of January 1st, 1874, and third
report of Levee Commissioner to session of
1874, the estimate for liquidation of debt,
after seven CD years transactions had inter
vened, was made as follows, to-wit: Four
teen (14) years more at five (5) cents per
acre, eight (8) years more at ten (10) cents
per acre, or five 90 years more at fifteeon
Q5) cents per acre; and it is further shown
that the collections and transactions of the
Levee Commissioners have fallen off and
decreased largely for the past eleven (11)
months of 1874 as compared with the pre-
vious year Of 1873, and proportionately
with the great decrease in collections of
State taxes on account of redemption, etc.
through Circuit Clerks offices, previously
recited. ETC.
1t is further shown by reference to Levee
Commissioners report, January LIST, 1872,
page 10, that out of about 100000 acres in
said Levee District, less than 100000 acres
of which are classed outside Ieuee" "va-
can't" school, and small part as &c State
lands" Which had not been subjected TO
sale for liens on account of levee taxes,
as required of the collectors under
the opinion of the attorneys of the
Levee Boards generally, in reference to the
worthless status of State claims to para
mount title, etc, ETC., to over 100000
acres of said lands (see order number Z, on
page of the Levee Commissioners report,
1922 while only 7S9, 966 acres paid the
current levee taxes for the fiscal year 1871,
and about 100000 acres remained unre-
ueehleu from saiu Lefee Doaru liens ana
sales.
The same condition of matters pertaining
to tax lands, might be recited for the Levee
District, embracing the counties Of Bolivar,
Washington and Issaquena, and part of
Suntiower; and In view of the recent deci-
sions of the courts, in reference to the lille
gality of the Act for the relief of the
Board of Levee Commissioners of the coun-
ties of Bolivar, Washington and Issaquena.
approved April 9th, 1872" better known
as the Omnibas BIZ for which see Laws