Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-09-10
DELINQUENT TAXES
TO Be COLLECTED
BY LAWS PROCESS
Council on War Path to
Get in Money Long
Owing to City
PUBLISH DELlNQUENTS
Giving Five Days No
tice Before a Levy
Is Made

Faced with an acute financial sit
uation the city council last night de-
cided to give delinquent tax payers
five days notice for the payment of
back taxes, then to publish the names
of delinquents, and allow five days
more for collection before levying on
sufficient amount Of property to be
sold, just as is done by the county.
According to a statement of the
delinquent taxes more than $4,000 is
owing to the city in this one item.
In addition to this there are several
thousand dollars outstanding on over
due paving certificates and license
taxes.
The decision of council to take
drastic steps to collect overdue taxes
followed a statement of City Attor-
ney Merryday that the East Florida
Savings & Trust Co., is right in its
contention that the council has no
| legal right to borrow from the sink
ing fund to tide the city over in an
emergency, especially in view of the
/ fact that the sinking fund is already
| OverdraWn.
Will Lend the City Money
President Adams, Of the bank, eX-
planned that it was not tte intention
Of the bank to embarrass the city in
this emergency, but that there is a
certain inviofaiTJfftity of sinking funds
that must be observed to preserve
the integrity of the bonds, especially
if they are maintained on the ten per
cent preferred list and used as gilt
edge collateral. He explained the
technical reasons why the bank felt
it incumbent upon it to make objec'
tions to the transfer of $4,000 from
the sinking fund to relieve the city,
emergencies.
Mr.. Adams said that the bank will
accept and cash the city's' warrant:
drawn on it for pay rolls until a suf
ficient amount of cash comes in witt
, which to redeem these checks, the
usual discount rates being charged
, Council accepted Mr., Adams otfe1
with thanks, very much relieved owe
situation that was fast becomins
: critical.
, In the meantime the chief of polio
and Patton Anderson, of the engi
neering department, are on specia
duty collecting paving assessments
and considerable money has bee
brought in in the last two days. |
is believed, with the aid Of this mon
; ey, that all immediate debts can b
discharged. All current bills wer
approved last~night, with the under
f standing that they are to be paid a
+ fast as the money comes in.
= To Use Wood Crossings
q ficials of the Atlantic Coast Line o
n proper crossing material, reporte
d that the officials had outtalked hil
d and he believed the oak board cross
T. ings were, perhaps, the best, How
It ever the officials agreed to put dow
e two of these, one on Water street an
r one on River street, so that they ca
d be inspected before any others al
@ put down. Mr.. johnson reported th'
e City Sngineer Randolph was of tt
e opinion that concrete crossings we
If Alderman johnson, of the speci
committee named to confer with o
t. impracticable.
h A resolution accepting the pavir
ID on Thirteenth, Lemon, Laurel al
t Madison streets was passed and a
e. sessments against property holde
x for the first third of their share b
II comes due Immediately.
10 The report. of Chief of Police Fe
r. nell showed that fifty arrests we