The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-05-24
CITY TAX RATE
FOR THIS YEAR
IS INCREASED
COUNCIL Fixes THE RATE AT
ONE FoRTy-FivE in IRIS
ORDINANCE.
AAdditicnaI School Tax Levy included
and Also Five Mills for the Sink
Ne Fund, Making the Total Fifteen
IA HissserThan Last Year.

= The tax rate for the city of Bruins
wick was fixed at the meeting of
council on Monday night, and for
the present it will be $1.45, an in
crease from last year from $1.30. This
increase is due to the special levy
made Tor school tax purposes and
the action of council in levying an
additional five mills to go into the
sinking fund.
The ordinance as passed gives in
detail the rate and the specific pur-
pose fer which it is to be used. The
ordinance in full is as follows:
An ordinance to levy and assess a
tax for the support OF the govern
ment Of the city of Brunswick for
the year nineteen hundred and eleven
Q91n, and for the payment of the
ordinary and extraordinary expenses
of said city for said year; providing
Sow and when said taxes shall be
paid and collected, and for other pur-
poses.
Section I. Be it ordained by the
mayor and aldermen of the city ,of
Brunswick, in council assembled, That
for the support of the government of
the city of Brunswick for the yeat
nineteen hundred and eleven, and fol-
the payment of the ordinary and evf
traordinary expenses of said city f6{
fid year, an ad valorem tax of OF
I'D forty-flye one-hundredths (14Ex
lrcentum be, and the s1tks :.
hereby levied anG IN 30
sed lpon all real ard n- nal
estate. in said city nd subject 10 ftax-
Iation, whether owned by individuals
or corporations, resident or non-resi-
dent Said rate to be divided and ap-
piled as follows:
One-half 1-2) of one percentum
shall be levied and collected for the
purpose + laying the. ordinary cur
rent rent q q M Of ne city fof said
One-half &f-2) Of one percentum
shall be levied and collected for the
payment of the principal and interest
upon the public debt of said city.
Thirty-five one-hundredths (35-100)s
Of one percentum shall be levied and
collected for paving and macadamiz-
ing streets. and
One-telith G-10) of one percentum
shall be levied and collected for edu-
cational purposes to he paid to and
disbursed by the board 81 education
Of Glynn county.
Sec. II. Be it further ordained by
the authority aforesaid, that said tax
shall be paid in two equal payments.
1 one on or before the Both day of June
1911, and the other on or before the
90th day of November, 1911, provided
salowever, that 'any tax payer shall
have the right to pay the whole TAX
at the time the first installmeit is
due.
Sec.s BE. it further ordained. by
ta srisy aforesaid, THAT should
person or corporation liable for;
#said tax, fail to pay either Install
suent thereof. after the same becomes
due, it shall be the duty of the clerk
'50f the mayor and council of the city
of Brunswick to issue execution
against such defaulting tax payer for
the amount of such taxes. Said exc
cution shall bear interest from date
Of issue at the rate Of seven (7) per-
centunl per annum until paid, and
saalls he enforced by levy and sale
as provided by the ordinances and
laws of this city.
IS Sec. A. Be it further ordained. by
sthe authority aforesaid, That this
ordinancessha be subject to amend
nlent and the right is hereby reserved
TO levy such additional ad vaIorum
tax for said year 1911 as may be
deemed necessary.
Sec. v. Be it further ordained, by
the authority aforesaid, That all or
dinances and parts of ordinances in
conflict with this ordinance be, and
the same are hereby, repealed.