Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-07-14
CENTURY OLD PAPER.
Tax Warrant Dated One Hundred
Years Ago To-Day.


Tax Warrant Dated One Hundred
Years Ago To-Day.
| The Gouldsboro correspondent Of THE
AMERICAN sends copy OF warrant fol
the collection Of taxes in the town OF
Gouldsboro, dated just one hundred years
ago to-day. The paper is written and
printed in old English characters, and
there is not period in it from start to
| finish. 1t is as follows:
Hancock IS; To Mr. Jonathan Furnald-col-
iecfor Of the T0t0n Of Goutdsoorouqh within
the said County GREErINe
| In the Name OF the Commonwealth OF Mas
sachusetts, you are required to levy and coll
lect Of the several persons named in the List
herwith committed unto you, each one his
respective proportion, therein set down, OF
the sum total of such List, it being Sixty one
Dolls, So cents Of this Towns Proportion
OF a Tax or Assessment of One hundred thir-
ty three thousand three hundred and two
Dollars and fifty two cents granted and
agreed upon by the General Court of said
Commonwealth, at their session begun and
holden at Boston on the fourth day of March
---~~ - NSAA"y ms VIC hcCcSsaTy CnATReS OF
securing, protecting and defending the same.
and you are to transmit and pay in the same
as follows:
To Josiah Dwight Esq Treasurer and Re-
ceiver general of this Commonwealth or his
successor in that ofice-the sum Of Sixty one
Dolls & thirty three cents
To Thomas Hill, Esq Treasurer of said
Town the Sum OF Twenty five cents
YOu are n counIata aud r,aEa go, - =.
count of your collection, OF the whole sum !,
and pay in the same, as above directed, on or
berore the first day of April next
And IL any person shall refuse or neglect to
pay the sum he is assessed in the said List,
to distrain the goods or chattels of such per-
son, to the value thereof; and the distress so
taken, to keep for the space of four days, at
the cost and charge Of the owner; and if he
shall not pay the sum, SO assessed, within the
said four days, then you are to sell at public
vendue the distress SO taken, for the payne Mt
thereof, with charges; first giving forty EIGHT
hours notice Of such sale by posting up ad-
vertisements thereof in some publick place in
the town And the overplus arising by such
sale, ii any there be, besides the sum assessed,
and the necessary charges Of taking and keep
ing the distress, you are Immediately to re-
store to the owner; And for want of goods or
chattels whereon to make distress (besides
tools or implements necessary for his trade
or occupation, beasts of the plough necessary
for the cultivation Of his improved lands,
arms, utensils for housekeeping necessary
for upholding life. bedding and apparel neces-
sary for himself and family for the space of
twelve days, you are to take the body Of such
person, so refusing or neglecting, and him
commit unto Common Gaol Of the County,
there to remain until he pay the same, or such
part thereof as shall not be abated by the AS
SCISSORS for the time being or the Court Of Gen.
eral Sessions of tie peace OF said County.
Given under our hands and seals at Goulds-
borough. this fourteenth day OF July one
thousand eight hundred and nine
JOHN BLACK, Assessors OF
THOMAS HILE, Gouldsborough