The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-13
TO FIX The RATE TO-DAY.
The County Tax Will Probably be
$3.50 on the Thousand.

The Reduction in the Educational
Budget May Make a Difference
of Cent on $1,000 in the
Tax-The Commissioners Will 11old
a Consultation With the City SAM
tary Board. to Arrange Some Plan
for the Proper Drainage of the Mus
grove Creek Watershed.
The county commissioners at their
September meeting to-day will fix the
rate of taxation for the ensuing year.
Commissioner Carson said yesterday that
it will be Sc 80 on the 81 900 which is an
advance of five cents on the thousand over
the rate of last year.
Commissioner Carson, together with
the other mem bers of the finance COM
mittee, has looked into the matter
thoroughly, taking into consideration the
county budget and the amount of taxa
BILE property, and he has satisfied himself
pretty well as to what the rate will have
to be. At $3.50 on the thousand, however,
the aggregate rate for state and county
will only be SO 80 instead of S11.10 as it
was last year, making a difference of
10 cents less.
COULD NOT MAKE 1T LESS.
In view OF all the circumstances the
county tax rate could not have been made
less or even the same as it was last year.
The commissioners eudeavored to cut
down their budget at every possible point,
but they were confronted on every hand
by expenses, some Of which they had not
thought of before. The list of county.
| poor kept growing and the amount which
| had to be expended for charities kept in
creasing.
Then, too, the failure of the Central
railroad depleted the income of several of
the county charitable institutions, and
the county commissioners were called
upon to aid them in their trouble. Other
| expenses were met with which were not
necessary the year before, and all helped
| to increase the budget of necessary ex-
| penditures.
WHAT CAUSED IT.
| Perhaps the large decrease in the
| amount of taxa bic property was more re-
| sponsible than anything else for the in
| crease. A large increase IN the valua-
| ton of the county's property was antici-
| pated, and the commissioners had made
their plans with that somewhat in view.
| While there was an increase in real es-
! tate values and in some other lines,
| which went all together good deal
above the falling off. the decrease in
| other property, was so great thaS it will
necessarily be felt in fixing the tax rate.
! The action & the board of education in
decreasing the amount of its budget by
| 81, 900 will make a difference of about one
| cent on $1,000 in the tax rate, which
otherwise would probably have been
1871.
OTHER COUNTY MATTERS.
Outside of the regular routine work
! of the county commissioners, there will
! probably be a consultation to-day be
| tween the drainage committee and the
city sanitary board with regard to the
draining of the Musgroye creek water
! shed.
The county will have q proposition to
| make to the city with regard to the
| draining of that section which is just
west of the city, and the sanitary condi-
| ton Of which is important to the City's
| health.
THE LIQUOR LICENSE QUESTION.
The matter of the revocation of
| the liquor licens granted by
| the commissioners to Bailey
! Carpenter, who does business out
on the Ogeechee road, will also come up.
A petition was sent in some time ago by
some of the citizens who live in that sec
tion asking that the license be revoked
on the ground that it had been illegally
| granted from the fact that there is a
| school-house within three miles Of the
place All parties to the case have been
cited to appear before the commits
| siOners to-day and show cause why the
license should or should not be revoked
Carpenter has been indicted by the grand
jury of the city court on two charges, sell
ling liquor without a license and selling
within three miles of a school-hOuse