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An Act to impose a Special Tax on the persons and property of the citizens of the City of Columbus residing and being in the same, annually hereafter, and to provide for the collection thereof; and to punish those who may refuse or attempt to defeat the provisions thereof. 1841 196 (1841)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0315 and id is 1 raw text is: county and issue scrip thereon, bearing an interest at the rate of eight per centum per annum, payable whenover tho county treasury shall be able to redecem the same ; and the said justices are hereby authorized to allow interest on all orders or contracts already passed or entered into for build- ing causeways, bridges, andti any law to the contrary not- -withstanding. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That an act assented to on the twenty-fifti day of Decmiii- ber, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled an act to authorize the Inferior Coart of Lowndes county to levy an extra tax for the support of the invalid poor of said county be, and the same is hereby repealed, any law to the con- trary notwithstanding. WILLIAM B. WOFFORD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT M. ECHOLS, . President of the Senate. Assented to, December 10th, 1841. CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor. AN ACT to impose a Special Tax on the persons and pro- perty of the citizens of the City of Columbus residing and being in the same, annually hereafter, and to provide for the collection thereof; and to punish those who may refuse or attempt to defeat the provisions thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives of the State of Georgia in Gencral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this aet, the persons and property of the citizens of the city of Colum- bus, residing and lying and being in said city, under the direction of and subject to the control of the mayor and aldermen of said city, to wit: on all free white males of the age of twenty-one years and umner sixty years, the sun of one dollar each, as a poll tax and in comnuutation of pa- trol duty; on all negro slaves twenty-five cet.,; on all Free male persons of color of the age of twenty-one and under sixty years, six dollars; on every hudred dollars worth of town property in said city, in town lots, buildings and improvements thereon, twenty-five cents ; on every hun- dred dollars worth of stock and trade in goods, wares and merchandize, to be computed at prime cost and returned at the highest estimate of said stock on the first day of Jan- 196 TAXES.

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