The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-03-21
THE TAX BILL.

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ture. The County tax will be as given
below, and the State tax will not exceed
seven mills. Hence the tax will be- in
Anderson County, at the greatest, not
more than eleven and one-half mills for
State, County and School purposes. This
includes the fence law tax, and every
thing. Hence we feel that the people
have cause to congratulate themselves
upon the light tax they will be called
upon to contribute to the present Demo-
cratic government, and by this moderate
levy the Legislature has performed an
act which should extenuate many of its
short comings:
AS was expected, the tax lery was re-
duced from ! to Z mills, inclusive of the
2 mill school tax, making the tax for
general State purposes mills.
Section 2 of the bill provides for courlty
taxes, and in order that the exact amount
of tax authorized to be levied in each
county may be known / give the share of
the several counties in detail:
Abbeville, 8 mills regular tax, l mill
additional to pay past indebtedness.
Aiken, 8 mills regular tax.
Anderson, 8 mills regular tax, and l!
mills additional fence tax.
Barnwell, 8 mills regular tax, and l
mill additional to pay past Indebtedness.
Beaufort, 8 mills regular tax and II
mills additional for the payment of the
past Indebtedness oflS76.
Charleston, 8 mills regular tax, mill
of which is TO be set aside exclusively to
pay court expenses and dieting of pris-
oners.
Chester, 8 mills regular tax.
Clarendon, 8 mills regular tax, and l
mill additional to pay past Indebtedness.
Chesterfield, s mills regular tax, and l
mill additional to pay past Indebtedness.
. Colleton, 3 mills regular tax.
Darlington, 3 mills regular tax.
Edgefeld, 8 mills regular tax, and
mill to pay deficiency in appropriation
for 1876.
Fairfield, 8 mills regular tax, and 1.5
|of one mill for payment of the costs Of
assessments OF property by the county
for the fiscal year 1875.
Greensille, 8 mills regular tax and 2
mills additional to pay past indebtedness.
Horry, 8 mills regular tax and 2 mills
additional TO pay past Indebtedness.
Kershaw, 8 mills regular tax.
Lancaster, 8 mills regular tax and !
mill additional for pro rata payment OF
past indebtedness. .,
Laurens, 8 mills regular tax and ] mill
10 pay past Indebtedness for 1876.
f Lexington, 8 mills regular taz.
Marion, 5 mills regular tax.
Marlboro, 8 mills regular tax.
Newberry, 8 mills regular tax and
of a mill additional pay past indebted
ness.
'Orangeburg, 8 mills regular tax and ]
mill additional to pay past due school
indebtedness.
Oconee, 8 mills regular tax and II
mills additional to pay past indebtedness,
Pickens, 8 mills regular tax.
Richland, 8 mills regular tax.
Spartanburg, 8 mills regular tax.
Sumter, 8 mills regular tax and 1 mill
additional to pay past. Indebtedness.
Union, s mills regular tax and mills
additional to pay past Indebtedness.
williamsburg, 8 mills regular tax.
York. 8 mills regular tax.
By way of reminder, We deem this q
good occasion to present our readers with
synopsis of the last tax they paid to
Chamberlain's ring government, in order
that, by q comparison of these figures
with the present Democratic tax levy,
they may see the difference in the point
of dcllars and cents between the govern.
ment We now have and the one from
which We have been delivered. The tax
passed at the session of 1S75-76 for the
year 1876, was as follows:
For State purposes II mills, as follows
For salaries 1 mill, for penal and chari-
table purposes mill, for schools 2 mills.
for legislative expenses l LILO mills, fol
printing ] mill, for interest 2 mills, fol
the Little Bonanza 1 mill, for the Big
Bonanza ] mill, for deficiencies l 9-1C
mills. Total, IL mills. For County tax,
Anderson County, 8 ITO mills, making
total State and County tax of IA 7-1O
mills, or 3 1-5 mills more than the pres.
ent levy.
But great as this difference is, it is still
greater if We compare it with the tax
which Chamberlain and his co-usurpers,
the members of the Mackey House and
the Senate, which was then 8 Republican
body, attempted to levy upon us last
year. They passed tax bill levying Is
mills for State purposes, and 8 mills for
the County Of Anderson, making levy
of 1S mills, or 81 mills more than the
present tax levy. The present levy Of
7 mills for State purposes is not
half what they levied for State purposes,
and the present tax bill is-less upon An
deBon County by thirty-6ve thousand
dollars than the tax they tried to levy,
and it is $4,000 less for the County Of
Anderson than it did actually pay under
the LAST year Of radicalism.
Now, we have written the above to
show our people that while there may be
farther improvements to be made, that
they have already been saved enough in
the single matter of taxation to repay
them for sustaining the present admins
tration.
MILITARY REVIEW.