Register of Tax Assessments in New Orleans
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1864-1869.
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1864-1869. / Series 4: Finance and Property Records
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1026, Subseries 4.5
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content: Archival materials
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content: The four-volume register of educational tax assessment in New Orleans is arranged by initial letter of surname of the property owner, with volume 1 containing letters A-E; volume 2, F-K; volume 3, L-P; and volume 4, Q-Z. The undated volumes stamped "Board of Education," probably pertain to the period 1864-65. A few of the tax bills are listed as being paid in 1865. The entries in each register are arranged by bill number. Each entry gives the bill number, district number, name of the individual, folio and square number form the tax rolls, description of the property taxed, and occasionally the date the bill was paid. At the end of volumes 2, 3, and 4 are summaries of the total value of all property listed in the volumes. Volume 1 has a cumulative total on each page, which eliminates the necessity for a final summary page. There are name indexes for volumes 2 and 3, arranged by initial letter and first vowel of the property owner's surname, thereunder by district, and thereunder by bill number. The number to the left of the name in the index entry is the bill number; the number to the right of the name is the page number of a pertinent entry in the register.