The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-08-16
An Ordinance

To Provide for the Assessment and
Collection of Taxes on All Taxable
PROPERTY in the Town of Manning,
and for the Assessment and Collec-
tion of Per Capita Tax in Lieu OF
Working the Streets Of said Town,
for the Fiscal Year Commencing the
Second Monday in April, 1905, and
Ending the Second Monday in April,
1906.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor
and Aldermen of the Town of Manning:
in council assembled, and by the author
itv of the same:
SECTION /. Thata q tax OF two mills
on every dollar of the assessed value
of all real and personal property lying
or being within the corporate limits OF
the Town of Manning, including bonds
and stocks of banks and other corpora
tions, and the gross income OF insurance
companies doing business in the said
town, except such property as IS exempt
bv law from taxation, be, and the same
is, hereby, levied for the fiscal year
commencing the second Monday in
April, 1905, and ending the second
Monday in April, 1906.
SEC. =. That it shall be the duty of
all persons, firms or corporations own
ING or having under their control any
property subject to taxation under this
ordinance, to list the same with the
clerk of council not later than Septem-
Der 20, 1905, and upon the failure OF
any person or persc1s, firm or corpora
ton 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 q list of the said
property for taxation as the same shall
be found to appear from the Office OF
the County Auditor for Clarendon
county.
SEC. ;. That 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 payhle. All able
bodied male persons between the ages
of eighteen (lS) and fifty (50) years, not
otherwise exempt, are liable to the SAID
tax; and all persons who shall be living
within the corporate limits Of the said
town up to the close of the fiscal year
ending the second Monday in April:
1906, shall become liable to the said
tax within thirty days after the said
persons shall begin living in the said
town, unless the said person or persons
can show satisfactory evidence OF hav-
ING performed road duty or duty upon
the Streets of some other town or city,
or produce receipt for payment OF
communication tax in lieu thereof: cov-
ing the majority part OF the fiscal year
included in this ordinance.
SEC. I. That all taxes levied under
the provisions of this ordinance shall
become due and payable TO the clerk
of the town council of Manning be-
tween October first. 1905. and Novem-
Der fifteenth, 1905.
SEC. 5. That if the said taxes are
not paid on or before the said fifteenth
day of November. 1905, q penalty of ten
per cent. shall be added until the tlf-
teenth day of December, 1903, after
which last mentioned date the collec-
tion of the said taxes and penalties
shall be enforced by execution.
Ratified by Council Aug. 1903.
D. NJ. BRADHAM,
F. J. BROWNE, Mayor.
Clerk.