The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1883-08-25
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EDITORS OF THE COURIER:

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! EDITORS OF THE COURIER:
Gentlemen:-As it is well known i,
this community that your distinouishe,
paper is the trne and faithful protecto
OF the rights and claims of the Door at,s
the oppressed; aud as you are alway
willing and prepared to do an act o
justice to this class of society, We selec
your columns as the proper transmissor,
organ through which we can notify tn,
much harassed tax payer of certain fact,
favorable to him. And whilst we dt
tiis, we, ut the same time, beg and re
quest all good and true men, through
out this parish and State, to read anG
explain t" their poor and igneran
helghbols these extracts from the laws
OF thls$State herein copied from the
revenue bills passed by the Genera
Assembly of Louisiana in the years 1885,
and 1852; and to impress upon theil
minds the fact that no tax-eollector ol
sheriff, within the State of Louisiana
has any right, in law or in fact, to claim
or to collect from any tax payer any
mileage or commission, or pay, for the
service of any tax notice, except that
which the laws of the State permit. And
that if any tax collector or sheriff claims
or demands any pay or remuneration
for service or for mileage for any tax
notice, duly served on him or her, either
Ill person or otherwise, more than the
sum of t'renty.fre cents, said tax col
lector, or sheriff, is an extortioner, and
he should be at once denounced and bis
office placed i'll the hands of an honest
man In transmitting these facts to the
poor and illiterate tax payers you will,
certainly, deserve their friendship and
esteem.
The following are the laws of which
we speak and to which we refer:
Acts of 1880, Sect. IS of Act 77.-The
tax collector or sheriff shall either de-
liver to each taxpayer in person, or shall
leave at his residence or place of busi-
ness, or shall mail to him by registered
letter, postage prepaid, addressed to the
post office of said taxpayer, one of said
notices, for which he shall be entitled
to collect from said taxpayer twenty
five cents as costs.
Sect. 36, same Act.-Fhe tax collector
or sheriff shall publish, once week for
two weeks in one newspaper published
in his district or parish, if there be one.
OF III the manner provided for judicial
sales, if there he none published in his
PARISH, oie general notice, substantially
in the foregoing form, addressed to all
unkuunlt owners OF assessed immoyable
property situated in his parish OF dis
triet, in which he shall describe the pro-
petty us described in the tax roll. He
slial! also post a similar notice on the
door Of the Civil District Court. He shall
certify on his tax rolls that he has pub
lishtd and posted said notices, and said
certificates on either shall make full
proof thereof, until tlisproyed III Judi
cial proceeding. lie shall pay for said
publication and shall he entitled to col
lect us costs thereof, one dollar from
each unknown owner, or from he pro-
perty assessed to him.
Acts Of 1882, Sect 42 Of Act g6.-
The tax collector or sheriff shall either
deliver to each taxpayer in person. or
shall leave at his residence or place of
business, or shall mail to him by postal
card, addressed to the postoffice of said
taxpayer, one OF said notices, for which
lie shall be entitled to collect from said
taxpayer, five cents as costs; prDuided,
no notice shall be charged for unless
the same has been actually delivered or
mailed to the taxpayer; and prorided
further, no mileage shall be charged for
the service of a notice; he shall certify
OH both tax rolls that he has served or
mailed all Of said notices, and said Ger
titicates on either tax roll shall make
full proof until disproved in judicial
Sec. 43. The tax collector Or sheriff
shall publish once in il anewspaper, pub
lished in his district or parish, if there
be one, or III the manner provided by
law for jitdicial sales, one general notice
substantially in the foregoing form, ad-
dressed to all owners of assessed NOV
able property situated in his parish or
district, whose names, postolfices or
agents are unknown, in which he shall
set forth substantially that the taxes of
sax unknown owners are due and un-
paid; and il not paid within twenty
lays, that he will proceed 10 seize and
sell such quantity of the movable pro.
pertv of each of said unknown owners
Is will pay AL tile taxes, interest and
costs. He stall certify on both tax rolls,
hat he has published and posted said
3atiees, and said certificates nn either
shall make full proof thereof, unit! dis
proved in judicial proceeding; he
shall pa, for said publication, aud shall
,e entitled to collect Us cost thereof, one
lollar from each owner, or from the
assessed to him.
See. 50.-Tfe tax collector or sheriff
'iiall either deliver to each taxpayer in
person, oi shall leave ut his residence or
elaee of business, or shall mail to him
" postal card, addressed to the post
lfiiee af said taxpayer, one of said no
ices, as required in section 40 of this
,ct, for which he shall be entitled to
.oilect from said taxpayer, twenty five
,ents us costs; no mileage TO be clhlrged
or the service of said notice.
These are all the laws ON the subject.
t must be understood, however, that
whenever the tax collector or sheriff
eizcs any property for its taxes, he is
Untitled to demand and recover the
anne fees as he is allowed by law for
eizures under q writ of zfi. fa..
Very respectfully yours, yIDEx.
A Tilt With Tilne.
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