Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-04-03

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Auditor cf Public Accounts.
The Auditor has also issued circular con-
tainiug instructions to the collectors Of State
taxes Throughout, the Commonwealth, 10 regard
to receiviog coupons from tax payers when ten
dered 10 payment of taxes. lie says:
'Only such coupons can be received as shall
have matured at the time OF tender, aod bear
upon their face that they are receivable for all
taxes, debts, dues, and demands due the State.
No coupon endorsed with credit for part pay
ment is receivable, and IN no case will coupons
be received, unless accompanied by the afida-
Wit rtquired by law.
ut has been agreed between the Second Au-
ditor aud myself, that the market value OF the
bond upon which the tax is assessed, shall be
sixty.eiyht dollars. You will govern your cal
cuatioDs of the tax upon this valuation, which
l. fixed by law at $50 cts in the 500 of the
market value of the boud. 10 facilitate you
in your calculations, | would state that
there are but three denominations OF coupons,
to wit: The $50 coupon, the SIS coupon, the
SO coupon; and that the tax upon each cou-
pm will be as follows: % the $50 coupon,
one dollar and seventy ccuts; on The SIS cou.
pom, eighty FIVE cents; and on the So coupon,
seventeen cents.
%. L dpDcUu dS pdTG vi tutS CiiCutdIy COpy VI
the ll7th section of the act approved March
81, 1876, entitled an act for the assessment OF
taxes on persons property, income, licenses,
&C., and imposing taxes thereof for the sup
port of the government aud free schools, aud
to pay the interest On the public debt, as to
tax Oh State bonds.
II would call your attention particularly to
the TACT that the tax is required to be deduct.
ed from all nlatured coupons when rendered
10 payment ut taxes, or other dues, to the
Commonwealth, whether the bonds from
which they were detached be owned by resi-
dents or nop residents Of this State.
Section 1T of the act Imposing taxes upon
persons, property, &C., approved March 9th,
1876, is as follows:
Out OF all interest which shall be due and
payable at the treasury, 90 bonds OF the State
whether the same be funded or untunded),
there shall be retained tax equal IN amount
to fifty ceuts on the hundred dollars market
value of bonds, from which said interest is, de-
rived, as of the first day of April of each year;
and such bonds shall be exempt 10 the hands
of the holders thereof from the property
tax imposed by the State. 1t shall be the
duty of the Auditor of Public Accounts
and the Second Auditor, Immediately
upon the passage Of this act, and Oh the first
day of April, annually thereafter, to ascertain,
from the best sources attalnaole, the market
value 10 currency of State bonds, both register
cd and coupon aud it ia hereby made the duty
of the Auditor of Public Accounts, Immediately
after tho ascertainment of said value by circular
or otherwise, to forward to every office through
out the Commonwealth, charged with the COL
lection of taxes, tho value of all coupon bouds,
ascertained as aforesaid who shall deduct trouI
. rod Uhioh ms no
rendered to him 10 payment OF taxes or other
dues to the State, such tax as is now, or may
hereafter be imposed thereon by the General
Assembly; and every such collector shall en-
durse on tne back of each coupon out of which
the tax has been 80 deducted or retained, the
words tx retained -- dollars, and shall
sign the same and account therefor to the pro-
per officer. All sums 80 retained shall be paid
into the treasury for the use OF the Common
wealth But whenever the State shall pay less
interest on The said bonds than six per centum
per aGuum, aud shall issue TO the holders there
of a certificate for the unpaid interest, the said
tax shall not be deduct d from the interest paid,
but trom the portion unpaid, and certificate
shall be issued for the unpaid interest, less the
tax. Auy collecting officer who shall receive
payment of taxes or debts in coupons without
deducting the tax provided for 10 this section
shall forfeit and pay to the Commonwealth five
hundred dollars. Nothing in this section shall
be construed to exempt State bonds from as
SessmeDt for local tsxation.'
Special dispatches from Kansas City state
that during the snow storm last Monday night
Mis-. George Holton and two little children,
living near Wamsga, Kansas, on the line Of
the Kansas Pacific Railroad, started to 70 to a
ncighbors house, ouly quarter of mile dis
tam. Darkness comi X on and the storm beat
Ing them so turiously they became bcwildercd
and wandered about the prairics uutil cxhaus;
ed. They we're found yesterday frozen le
death, DOT twenty rods from the h,use they
We're in search of. The mother had takep of
nearly all her clothes to protect her children,
aud was herself 10 an almost naked coudition.
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