The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-06-10
TAXES LEVIED.

Property and Poll Taxes Lower
This Year Than Last-Con-
tract Let For Steel Cells -Eleo-
ton for Extra School lax
Commissioners to Meet Again
Next Tuesday.
The county commissioners were
in regular session Monday and
Tuesday and adjourned Tuesday
afternoon to meet again on Tues
day of next week, the 18th. Be-
sides the regular routine business
taxes for the year were levied
and the contract was let for put
ting in additional cells in the
county Jail.
The contract for new cells in
in the Jail was awarded the Nc
Allister HdW. Co. of Lumberton
for So, 294. Four new cells will
be installed in the room on the
north side of the Jail on the sec
ond floor, and the cell now in that
room will be placed in a room on
+ the first floor. Also the bars IN
the cells in the room on the sec
ond floor, south side, will be taken
out and hardened. The faulty
: construction of the Jail walls and
: some of the cells has rendered
escape altogether too easy, as has
been demonstrated several times,
d but when this work is done
D escape will be a thing of the
past. oo
: The tax levy for the year 1905
= is as follows:
It For State purposes, q cents;
g for pensions, A cents; for pubic
d schools, 18cts. making AZ cts. or
~ the 500 of real and personal pro-
e perry; poll, $1.29.
Is For county purposes, ~ cents
10 on the 800 and 60cts on the poll
% To provide sinking fund anc
ar pay semi-annual interest on S5O,
~ 600 court house bonds, 2 cents OF
W the 800 and 6 cents on the poll
ry To provide sinking fund an
ed pay semi-annual interest on $25,
yn 600 county funding bonds, l cen
al on the 500 and 3 cents on tn
~ poll. =,
Ut To provide a fund for work
r. ing the public roads and repair
n ing and maintaining bridges, z
cents on the $500.
,;s For county purposes unde
schedule 'B and CO of the Revt
ny nue. and Machinery Act, sam
OF tax as levied for State purposes
is The total tax this year is s
w. cents on the 500 worth of pr'
nv perty, the tax last year bein
10y two-thirds of cent higher-86
ler cents. Poll tax is 2 cents lowe
d. than last year-$2 last year, 81
an SO this. The court house, furnish
10 ed, cost the county in the neigl
a; borhood of SIS, 600, yet it will k
~ noted that on every $500 wort
10 of property the tax for cou
lge house bonds is only the price
s a a stamp to send letter.
on Special school taxes in 81 di
'olo tricts as voted by the taxpaye
ole of the district. These, wi
at amounts voted, have been ropol
18th ed from time to time in T
is Robesonian.
rim The Wake county system
a.. indexing has been adopted t
oei the county and books have be-
eX- ordered. At the meeting ne
Tuesday the commissioners W
an determine as to when the syste
mid shall be installed.
,oaa A petition was presented fri
ico' school district No. 1, Thompse
ols- township, for an election to W
on a tax of 5 cents on the 81
and Is cents on the poll in ad
ince ton to the special tax of Is &C.
norm on the 500 and rs cents on
49, poll voted in that district |
TIC June. 1t was ordered that
mage election be held on the 9th {
here of July, in the town of RoWla
aims and that new registration
J., oat had for said election. Mil
Lytch, of Rowland, was appoi
ed registrar. C. B. Cox and J
-pe Smith, of Rowland, judges.
Linz H. w. Hedgpeth was apo
ed a road trustee of Orrum to
De- ship, w. A. Leggett, who ;
'onal formerly appointed, being no
resident of the township.
AS it was not possible to
ates, access 10 tne minutes untll
hase- to hold over an itemized acc(
v the of bills passed by the board l
n the Mondays paper.
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