The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-22
BLo&HAM COUNTY BILLS
There will be a Scarcity of Coin to
Meet Them

you about this creation of Bloxham
county, inasmuch as it is now left to
you whether it is created (Which priv
ilege you would not have had had it
not been for the efforts of the oppo-
sition to the bilD, feel that you
should be in possession of all the
facts, so that you may vote intelli-
gently.
If you vote Bloxham county, then
all the officers to which the county is
entitled will be appointed, commits
stoned and assume the duties of their
respective offices on the first Monday
in October, 1915.
Now of these officers the following
are paid out of the public funds,
namely: Clerk of court, $50 per
month; supervisor Of registration, SO
per month; superintendent of schools,
500 per month; each member of the
board of county commissioners, "a
per day, and mileage each way; each
member of the school board, $4 per
day and mileage, and extra for the
clerk for making the semi-annual
financial statements to the comptrol-
Ter (S1OO) twice per year; and then
there is your pauper list land you
will have one) which costs us (since
the list has been rigidly revised by
the commissioners $3.50 per month,
and it will cost you as much as it
does US, for you will have a county
about the same size in population and
wealth, besides the other actual run
ming expenses of the county govern
ment; now all of this will have to be
met each month, and / ask what are
you going to meet it with?
When you are created and your of
ficers assume and take charge of
your county government, Oct. 1st,
1915, you will not then have a dollar
in your school fund, nor in your road
fund, nor in your fine and forfeiture
fund, nor in your general county
fund, nor in any other fund, except it
be sub-district funds, which you will
be entitled to, but which can't be
utilized for any of the above pur-
poses. So, what are you going to do
about your expenses, which will be as
above stated, and in all probability,
more than / have enumerated? 1t is
true, you can issue scrip to pay those
expenses with, but with what are you
going to pay this scrip? You won't
have a dollar, therefore, the erich"
who have money, will discount your
scrip, and you will have to take less
than dollar for dollar for it, besides
your county commissioners will be
limited in the amount of scrip they
issue, so will your school board, to
the amount of the estimated levy for
the year 1915, as made by the school
boards of Levy and Marion counties,
for school purposes, and to the
amount levied by the county commits
sioners for Levy and Marion counties
for general county purposes, roads,
bridges, fine and forfeiture, ETC., for
no scrip (since the act of the legisla-
ture) can be issued in excess of the
estimated levy, if so, then the MEM
Der of the school board or county
commissioners voting for same will be
held personally liable and also on his
bond.
The only money you will get for
any of the above purposes from Oct.
1st, 1915, till Nov. 1st, 1916, will be
the money that will be paid to your
lax collector by the tax collectors of
Levy and Marion counties, as the bill
creating Bloxham county provides
that as R. M. Fugate collects the
taxes assessed on the 1915 tax books,
then the taxes on that part of the
property cut off from Levy and plac-
ed into Bloxham, he will turn it over
| to your tax collector on the first Mon
day in each month, so likewise will
be done by the tax collector of Mar
ion county. So you will see that you
will have no money to cash your
scrip with that is issued in October
or in November or in December to
amount to anything, for the 1915
taxes are not collected to any great
amount till in January, 1916, and the
bulk of them are not collected till in
| MaTcn ana April, 1910. 30 you Will
be issuing scrip for practically six
months with no money to take it up
with. Do you wish to go into this
kind of condition?
The county commissioners of Blox-
ham county will not have any author
ity to make any levy till in July
1916, and then you will not get any OF
that till December, 1916, and very
small portion thereof then; the bulk
of that levy you will not have collect
ed and available for use till in April
and May, 1917.
Now, men, these are cold facts and
ask you to think about this condi-
ton that you will be in if you vote
Bloxham county into existence.
l have no desire to misstate the
facts to you. think too much of you
for that, but l do feel an interest In
you, and in your welfare, and l ap-
peal to you to reason this matter
among yourselves and then make W
your minds from the actual facts and
the condition you will be in when you
have voted this new county into ex.