The Bolivar County Democrat., 1922-09-16
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
IN TIE MATTER OF TAX LEVY FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR 1922.

Under and y virtue Of the authority
of the laws of the State of Mississippi,
| and particularly that of an act of the
| Legislature Of the STATE entitled. "An
Act to Amend Chapter 63 Of fhe Sheet
Aots of 1892, being an Act entitled AN
Aci to provide for the appointment OF
Leyee Commissioners to raise revenue
to loaintaio the levees in the Mississippi
Levec District and to authorize the
issuance of bonds by the Board of Mis-
sissippi Levee Commissioners, and for
other purposes, Approved March 10th,
1896, and of the several Acts amenda-
tory thereof, with especial reference to
the amendment to Section Is of said
Act, approved March 18th, 1914, and
IAN Act to amend Chaptep 125 of the
Acts of l9OS,' entitled can Act to
amend Chapter of the Acts of 1885,,
entitled "An Act to provice for the
payment of levee taxes by Railroads in
Mississippi Levee District of the State, y
approved March 5th, 1903, as approved
February 2sth, 1914.
1t is hereby ordered by the Board of
the Mississippi Levee Commissioners
that the levee taxes for the current
fiscal year are fixed and ordered to be
collected as follows to-wit:
A uniform tax of five per cent on each
and every acre of land in the counties
of, Bolivar, Washington Sharkey, lssa-
quena. Humphreys and Warren included
in the Mississippi Levee District and
not in an incorporated City Town or
Village in said District, and divided into
lots of less than one acre, and tax of
FIVE cents on each and every lot Of less
than one acre, in every city, town or
village in said District and the emer
gency provided for in Section Is of said
Act of March 18th, 1896, as amended
by the Act approved March 18th, 1914,
now existing uniform advalorem tax
of 10 mills on the assessed valuation of
all property, real and personal, lying
and situated in the aforesaid counties,
included in Mississippi Levee District,
as the same shall appear upon assess
ment rolls of said counties respectively.
A tax of 13 of one cent per pound on
all lint cotton grown during the year
1882 in said district, and l-9 of one cent
per pound on all seed cotton raised and
grown during the year 1922 in said dis
trict and not ginned therein. And there
being no reduction in other taxes, the !
Railroad tax for levee purposes during
the fiscal year of 1922 shall be as pro-
vided by the act of the Legislature of
the State of Mississippi, approved
March 5th, 1903 and styled "An Act to
amend Chapter Z, of the Seeet of Acts !
of 1885,, entitled ''An Act to provided
for the payment of Levee taxes by
Railroads in the Mississippi District of
the State" as amended by "An Act to
amend Chapter of the Acts Of 1886 as
amended by Chapter 1875 of 1908 as
amended by Act approved February
28th, 1914, as follows:
Upon all railroads and parts of Rail
roads lying and situated in the said levee
District, and to-wit: Upon each and
every mile of the main and trunk line
of all broad or standard guage railroads,
not including side tract switches. the
the sum of Three Hundred Fifty $3.50. 00)
Dollars per annum; Upon each and
every mile of narrow gauge of railroad
or railroads of less width than standard
guage, not including side tracts or
switches, the sum of Eighty Seven &
5O-lO0 ($S750) Dollars per annum; And
upon each and every mile of broad or
standarl gauge Railroads not used ans
operated as a main or trunk line, but
&C Constituting and used as feeder to or
br; nch of main OF trunk line, or to
COZ meet such main or trunk line with
scme other system, the sum Of Two
Hundred Ten ($2l0.00) Dollars per
annum.
The Secretary of this Board is direct
ed to notify the Tax Collectors of the
several countins, the State Auditors and
the Railroad Companies, and to make
publication hereof as required by law.
w. l.. CROUCH,
Secretary e. Treasurer.