Register of the Tax Base for School Districts
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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 4.4
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content: Archival materials
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content: The register of the tax base for school districts, undated, probably pertains to the period 1864-65. The volume is arranged by parish and thereunder numerically by district. For each school district, the volume includes the value of real estate and personal property as assessed in 1862; number of children (5-12 years old); number of adults; number of acres of cotton, corn, and cane planted that year; number of sawmills; location and size of the district; location of school buildings; and amount of tax levied for schools.