The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1919-03-13

IAAES COLLkCTED IN COUNTY
LIST. Total for Fiscal year
1918 to March 8, 1919,
on real and personal
property .....................S S2.87l .8S
End. Total Poll-Tax, for
= same period 2,sss.oC
from Jan. /, 1918, to
Jon. /, 1919s...-- s,1s4.5O
9Th From Automobile
Owners (18s in number) 1,1ee.79
9TH. Communication road
taxes to March 3, 1919.... 4,647.OO
9th. Total Dog Tax, up to
March 3rd, 1919............... 2,938.O0
ath- Railroad Tax...-:.-:.... 21,365.99
9th. Cumberland Tele-
phone $709.63, Postal
Telegraph $211.01.. 92O.64
9th. Western Union $l21.70
Pullman Pal. Car Co.
@lUJ.Dc -......-.........-............F 231. .28
10th. American Express Co. .63
Total all sources. $120, ,294.81
Out of above amount must be de-
Quoted the commissions allowed to
the Iax-Collector and the County
Treasurer.
COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS
1st. Bonded Debt............ .$161 900.
The bove includes the separate
school district bonds, issued for the
Separate School District Of Herman
vile, Bethel and Reganton. The reg
ular annual expenses for county pur-
poses has not yet been obtained.
Hence the annual expenses are not
given in this statement. Nor. is the
city Of Port Gibson bonded or other
Ind Hal.A
TAX LEVY FOR YEAR 1918.
lst. Levy for General purposes
s mills.
2nd. For Sinking Fund, 25k mills. |
3rd. For Public Schools, 4 mills.
4th. For Ad valorem Road Fund,
3 mills.
9th. Tick Eradication, mill.
9Th Bethel Separate School Dis
trict, / mill
7th. Reganton Separate School
District, 81 mills.
9th. Hermanville Separate School
District, mills.
The above does not include Munich
pal levies, for Port Gibson, Herman
vile or Pattison. The levies by dis
tricts, in three districts including the
levy to pay interest and create a sink
ing fund, on the Separate School Dis
trict issues Of bonds, are as follows:
1st. Port Gibson, 1415 mills. This
of course does not include the city
levy for Municipal matters
End. Outside of Port Gibson and
Separate School Districts, 185z mills.
3rd. In Bethel Separate School
District, 1914 mills.
4th, In Beganton Separate School
District, 22 mills.
9th. In Hermanville Separate
School District, 221z mills.
9th. To be added to each Of above
State Tax, 51h mills.
The above, then, shows county levy,
to which adding state levy, there re-
sults in the order above given 20, "a,
246, 2716 and % mills, for state and
for Port Gibson, Hermanviile and Pat
tison must be ascertained to get at
the actual taxation for Fiscal year
ending March 3rd, 1919.
MILES OF ROAD IN COUNTY.
Entire county, eA' roads, 1854,
"BD roads ia, esecond class, 1471s.
District One: GAP roads, %, "B"
roads, 25, Second Class, n.
District Two: "a" roads 9, "B"
roads %, "Second Glass" 10.
District Three: "a" roads 21, "BD
roads 341s, Second Glass" 23.
District Four: "An roads %, "Bn
roads 21, Second Glass" 345z.
District Five: "a" roads 81, "B"
roads 81, "Second Class" 43%.
Of course, what are known as "Post
Roads" are included in "A" Roads.
The Post Roads are as follows. Post
roads are those shown on maps pre-
pared by officials having in view the
of main lines Of roads,
with aid of United States appropria-
tons, etc. So far as at present de-
signed these aggregate about So
miles. The present lines as located
extend from Warren county at Big
Black bridge, through the Third Dis
trict, western side of Fourht District,
and through the First District to jeff
erson county line This may be de-
signated the North and South road
OF course it win connect with main
lines of roads, that open up traffic
and travel over an indefinite mllage,
north and south. The other Post
Road, may be designated as The East
and West line, and the North East
and South West line. The East and
West road connects with Copiah coun-
y, while the North East road con-
nects with jefferson, near the N. ].
& G. R. R. and with Kinds county
near the northeast corner Of Clai-
borne. The Post Roads are given c
that name because they are really s
Intended as Postal lines and Inter I
State lines. They, too, may be class
ID as military lines.
The writer Of this article is, as c
Chairman Of the Information Com
nittees appointed, under direction Of c