The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-08-24
An Ordinance

To Provide for the Assessment ane
Collection of Taxes on All Taxable
Property in the Town OF Manning
and for the Assessment and Co!lec
ton Of a Per Capita Tax in Lieu OF
Working the Streets Of Said Town
for the Fiscal Yelr Commencing
the Second Monday in April. 1904
and Ending the Second Monday il
April, 1905.
BE 1T ORDAINED by the Mayo1
and Aldermen of the Town of Man
ming, in council assembled, and by
the authority of the same:
SECTION i. That tax of two mills
on every dollar of the assessed value
of all real and personal property ly.
| ing or being within the corporate
limits of the Town of Manning, in
cluding bonds and stocks of banks
and other corporations, and the
gross income of insurance companies
doing business in the said town, ex.
cept such property as is exempt by
law from taxation. be, and the same
is. hereby, levied for the fiscal veal
commencing the second Monday ir
April, 1904, and ending the second
Monday in April, 1905.
SEC. ,. That it shall be the duty oil
all persons, firms or corporations
owning or having under their con
troll any property subject to taxa
tion under this ordinance, to list the
same with the clerk of council not
later than September 30, 1904, and
upon the failure Of any person OF
persons, firm or corporation to list the
said property, it shall be the duty OF
said clerk Of council to enter up
against said person or persons, firm
or corporation list of the said prop.
erty for taxation as the same shall be
found to appear from the Office OF
the County Auditor for Clarendon
county.
SEC. 3. That a Communication tax OF
two dollars per capita on all persons
liable to work on the streets of said
town for the fiscal year above men
toned, in lieu of working on said
streets, be, and the same is, hereby
levied, which said communication tax
shall become due and payable when
other town taxes are payable. All
able-bodied male persons between
the ages of eighteen (18) and fifty $50,
years, not otherwise exempt, are LA
BILE to the said tax; and all persons
who shall be living within the cor
porate limits of the said town up to
the close of the fiscal year ending the
second Monday in April, 1905, shall
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thirty days after the said persons
shall begin living in the said town,
unless the said person or persons can
show satisfactory evidence of having
performed road duty or duty upon
the streets of some other town or
city, or produce a receipt for pay
ment Of a Communication tax in lieu
thereof, covering the majority part
of the fiscal year included in this Or
dinance.
SEC. 4, That all taxes levied under
the provisions of this ordinance
shall become due and payable to the
clerk of the town council OF, Manning
between October first, 1904, and No
vember fifteenth, 1904.
SEC. 5. That if the said taxes are
not paid on or before the said fif-
teenth day of November. 1904, pen.
atty of ten per cent. shall be added
until the fifteenth day of December,
1904, after which last mentioned date
the collection of the said taxes and
penalties shall be enforced by execu-
ton.
Ratified by Council Aug. s, 1904.
D. NJ. BRADHAM,
Mayor.
E. J. BROWNE, Clerk.