The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-06-05
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Taxes Decentralization OF officers
and Other Matters.

Taxes DISQUALIFICATION OF Officers
and Other Matters.
The Justices of the Peace met with
the County Commissioners Monday
and reelected Messrs. A. E. Conrad,
.Jno. W. Fries and N. W. Sapp as
commissioners and A. l. Butner as
superintendent of Public Instruction.
The tax listers for the various town
ships having been notified to meet
with the Board proceeded to make
and agree upon the following as Il
sort of rate by which to be guided in
listing the taxes for 1890, to wit:
Horses, first-class, 5000, End $3.50,
Sd 500, 4th SIS; mules, first-class,
5000, End $50, Sd 500, 4th $75;
cattle, first-class, $50. End $50, Sd
$40, 4th $40; jacks 500, jennets
500, sheep 81 per head, hogs, gross
3 cents per pound. bacon and lard
10 cents per pound. corn per bushel
60 cents, wheat 50 cents per bushel,
rye per bushel rs cents, -four per 100
$3.50, whiskey per gallon so cents,
brandy per gallon 80 cents, oats per
bushel A cents, hay per 100 81, fod-
der per 100 81. tobacco in the leaf
80 to $50 per 100, manufactured to-
bacco $40 to $40 per 100, brick at
the kiln 50 per 900, lumber 60 cents
per 100 feet, cotton 10 cents per
pound, wool 15 to 80 cents per pound,
bees per stand 81, goats per head 81,
with the right to use their discretion
in valuing the various articles sub
ject to taxation.
The Board of County Commission
ers and Justices, sitting together,
proceeded to make the following levy
of taxes for the year 1890. to wit:
State tax, general fund on property
rs cents; poll rs. School tax on
property 12A, poll BIZ.
County school tax on property five
cents, poll 10; county general fund tax
on property 21A cents, poll 63h;
County pension tax on property
three cents, poll nine; County road
tax on property 81 cents, poll Zoe.
Ordered that the County levy the
same tax on all subjects of taxation
under schedule B and c as the State
levies except tobacco warehouses
which shall be only one third as
much. as the State levies.
1t was moved and carried that we
continue the present system OF work
ing the public roads and that we
levy Il tax of 81 cents on property
and 10 cents on the poll for road
purposes.
Moved and carried that the chair
man of the Board be authorized to
make a settlement with M. E. league,
retiring sheriff, and transfer the bal
anco Of tho tayoS dino from 1890 RI
John Boyer, who succeeded him as
sheriff according to a decision of the
Supreme court of the State in the
contested election case, Boyer VS..
league.
The returns of the recent stock
law election held in Lewisville were
examined and approved and it was
ordered that the stock law go into
effect on Monday the 18th day of
June, 1890, there having been a ma
jority of legal votes cast in favor of
stock law.
John Boyer, who succeeds NJ f.
league as sheriff. filed his several
bonds which We're examined, approx
ed and ordered to be recorded and
filed. whereupon said Boyer took the
oath and was solemnly indicted into
the office of sheriff of Forsyth county.
An error which occurs in the settle
ment of 1.-The school tax with sheriff
NJ. E. league, was referred to A. E..
Conrad, chairman, for investigation
and adjustment.
The amount of county claims al
lowed and paid was $685.. S4.