The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-01-20
TAX RETURNS.
OFFICE COUNTY AUDITOR,
CLARENDON COUNTY,
Manning, S. c., Dec. 16, 1896


Manning, S. c., Dec. 16, 1896.
The Auditors office will be open
from the first day of January, 1897,
to the twenth day of February, 1897,
to receive returns of personal prop
erty for taxation in Clarendon county
for the year 1887 and for the conven-
ience of taxpayers will have deputies
at each Of the places nameds below
to receive returns for the said year: :.
-Pinewood, Monday, January 18th,
1897.
Packsville, Tuesday, January -,
1897.
Pamela, Wednesday, January 18th,
1897.
David Lewis Store, Thursday, Jan
uary 14th, 1897.
Summerton, Friday, January, 18th,
1897.
Brunson's X Roads, Saturday., Jan
uary 18th, 1897.
Jordan, Monday, January 18th,
1897.
.Johnson's Store, in st. Marks
township, on Raccoon road, near
DUTIES old store, Tuesday, January
18th, 1897.
Foreston, Wednesday, January
Goth, 1897.
Wilson'S, Thursday, January 21st, 1897
Alcolu, Friday, January 22nd, 1897.
w. NJ. Youman's, Saturday, Jan
uary 23rd, 1897.
saurs Store, Monday, January
25th, 1897.
New Zion, Tuesday, January 26th,
W.. Gibbons, Wednesday, Jan
uary 27th, 1897.
J.J. McFaddin's Store, Thursday,
January 2Sth, 1897.
McIntosh's Store, Midway town
ship, Friday, January Goth, 1897.
Taxpayers return what they own
on the first day Of January, 1897.
All personal property, must be re-
turned this year.
Assessors and taxpayers will enter
the first given name of the taxpayer
in full, also make a separate return
for each party for the township the
property is in, and where the tax
payers owns realty, to insert the
post Office as their place of residence,
and those who only own personal
property, to give the party's name
who owns the land they live on as
their residence, which aids the tax
payer as well as the county treasurer
in making the collections and pre-
venting errors.
Every male citizen between the
ages of twenty-one and sixty years
on the first day of January, 1897, ex-
cept those incapable of earning
support from being manned, or rom
other causes, shall be deemed tax
able polls. This does not apply to
Confederate soldiers over fifty years
af age.
All the returns that are made after
the twentieth day of February will
have penalty of 50 per cent, added
thereto, unless out of the county
during the time of listing. Not
knowing the time of listing is no e1
cuse.
The assessing and collecting Of
taxes is all done now in the same
year, and we have to aggregate the
number and value of all the horses,
cattle, mules, &C., and their value
that there is in the county, and have
same on file in the Comptroller Gen
erals Office by the thirtieth day of
June each year. And from that
time to the first day of October each
year the auditors and treasurer's
duplicate has to be completed and
an abstract of the work in the Comp
troller's office by that time, which
will show at a glance that the audi
tor has no time to take in returns
or DO anything else much, between
the first day of March and the first
day of October each year, but work
on the books and blanks Therefore
I hope that all taxpayers will do NE
the favor of making their returns in
time.
J. EBERT DAVIS,