, 1884-08-09
LEVYING THE TAXES.
The County Commissioners Oficl-
ally Announce the Amount
Which the Taxpayers Must Con-
tribute the Present Year.
What Cheyenne People Will Be
Compelled to Pay.

The County Commissioners met yester-
day afternoon at the County Clerks office,
tor the purpose of making the annual levy
of taxes for the year 1884. Mr.. Thomas
Swan, chairman of the board, together
with Commissioners Hoyt and Dyer, were
in attendance.
County Clerk Jeffrey laid before the
board a communication which he had re-
received from Deputy Territorial Auditor
Stewart, announcing the result of the
labors of the Territorial Board of Equali-
ration lately in session, and which gave in
a tabulated form the figures and valua-
tons of the corporate property of the Ter
ritory, he number of animals in the Terri
tory and their aggregate value in classes.
the amount of the levy for the year 1884
for general purposes, and the amount
levied as IN indemnity fund.
After consulting the records, figures
and estimates and such other data as was
of service to them in arriving at a proper
conclusion, the board proceeded to make
a levy for the year 1884 as follows:
For Territorial purposes I offs mill on
the dollar.
Stock indemnity } mill per dollar, Ito
be collected on that class o~fproperty only.
County revenue 4 mills per dollar.
Poor and pauper fund . mills on the
dollar.
Roads and bridges 3 mills per dollar.
District Court mills per dollar.
Annual school tax ? mills per dollar.
Poll tax 50 per capita on those assessed
or to be assessed.
LEVY FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
School District No. l. (Cheyenne), Al
mills on the dollar.
No. =, 1t mills per dollar.
No. 3, no levy needed.
No. 4, ~ mills per dollar.
No. 5. II mills per dollar.
No. 6, % mills per dollar.
No. :, 2f mills per dollar.
As will be seen by the foregoing, the
actual levy for all county purposes in this
county is l21 mills on the dollar, which is
only one-fourth Of a mill more than it was
last year.
During the present year the county has
been oblie ed to incur a very large expense
for the building of bridges and for the
running of the County Hospital, which in
neither case it had to do last year. and
which (both matters included) will make
a difference of at least $l5, 900 in the ex-
penses of running the county, in excess of
what it cost last year.
In addition to this it should
also be remembered that by
the recent act of the legislature the
$4,000 annual revenue from the issuances
of licenses for all purposes has been taken
away from the county and transferred to
the city of Cheyenne, 50 that really there
is a difference between this and last year of
about S2s, 900 against the county. Stat
ing it in another way, the county, deduct
ing what it has lost by the act of the
legislature, has to pay $2s, 600 more this
year than in the year 1883, and yet the
levy of taxes for all county purposes is
only a quarter of a mill more. Of course
the total value of taxable property has
quite largely increased, but after all, when
everything is taken into account and
figured up, it is discovered that, consider
ing what the county must pay now com
pared with what it had to pay in 1883, the
tax is in a lesser proportion now than it
was then.
The total valuation of all the taxable
property in the county is IS, 4e7, 2l2. 65,
and those who are curious to investigate
the matter can figure for themselves as to
the amount of taxes that will in all have
to be paid by the people of Laramie
County.
Including the school and Territorial tax
the people of Cheyenne will be called
upon to pay a tax of lsl mills on the
dollar, which. in edition to the amount
they will pay in poll taxes, will foot up
pretty well, to say nothing of the tax of
about : mills on the dollar which they will
pay as city taxes.