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TAX LEVY 1943
GEORGIA— Chattooga County.
It appearing to the Board of Com
missioners and Revenues of said
County that the taxable value of
the real and personal property of
said county, as same appears on the
digest for the year 1943, aside from
the corporations which make re
turns direct to the comptroller
general, is $4,174,470.00, including
homestead exemptions, and after
deducting homestead exemptions
the taxable value is $3,137,045.00,
and it further appearing to the
Board of Commissioners of Roads
and Revenue of said County that it
will require, in addition to the
taxes received from said corpora
tions the sum of $66,890.59, to pay
the accrued and the necessary ex
penses and the obligations of the
County for the year 1944, aside from
the tax levy for educational pur
poses, it is therefore ordered that
a tax levy of twenty mills or $20.00
on the one thousand dollars be, and
the same is hereby levied on every
species of taxable property both
real and personal, to pay the nec
essary running expenses and the
accrued expenses, and obligations
of the County to accrue for the
year 1944.
It is hereby ordered by the Board
of Commissioners of Roads and
Revenue of said County that the
tax levied as aforesaid be, and the
same is hereby levied for the fol
lowing specified purposes: To pay
the legal bonded indebtedness of
the county due or to become due
during the year or to become due
in the year 1944, Four Mills or Four
and no] 100 Dollars of taxable prop
erty, estimated to raise $16,697.88.
To build and repair court houses,
jails, bridges, or other pub’ic im
provements, three mills or three
and no] 100 dollars on the one thou
sand dollars of taxable property,
estimated to raise $9,411,13.
To pay Sheriffs, Jailer’s, or other
officers’ fees that they may be le
gally entitled to out of the county
one mill or one and no|loo dollars
on the one thousand dollars of tax
able property, estimated to raise
$3,137.04.
To pay expenses of the county
for bailiffs at court, non-resident
witnesses in criminal cases, fuel,
servant hire, stationery and the like
one mill or one and no] 100 dollars
on the one thousand dollars of tax
able property, estimated to raise
$3,137.04.
To pay expenses incurred in sup
porting the poor of the county and
as otherwise prescribed by the
Code one and one-fourth mills or
one and 25]100 dollars on the one
thousand dollars of taxable prop
erty, estimated to raise $3,921.30.
To pay jurors a per diem com
pensation one mill or one and no] 100
dollars on the one thousand dollars
of taxable property, estimated to
raise $3,137.04.
For the working and improve
ments of the public roads of said
county, same together with the
commutation tax, to be known as
the "Public Road Fund,” and to be
used and expended for the purpose
of paying the salaries and wages of
employees engaged in working, re
pairing and improving the public
road, and the support of the chain
gang while engaged in working up
on the public road, of said County
four mills or four and no] 100 dol
lars on the one thousand dollars of
taxable property, estimated to
raise $12,548.18.
To pay ten per centum of the
cost of administration, and the cost
of paying the assistant and bene
fits provided for under the terms
of the act of the general assembly
of 1937 of the State of Georgia, en
titled "Public Assistant to Aged,”
same to be paid to the County De
partment of Public Welfare upon
the request of the Director thereof,
three mills or three and no|loo dol
lars on the one thousand dollars of
taxable property, estimated to raise
$9,411.13.
To pay- expenses of quarantine
and necessary sanitation one fourth
mill or twenty five cents on the
one thousand dollars of taxable
property, estimated to raise $784.26.
To pay for collection and presen
tation of records of birth, death,
disease and health one-fourth mill
or twenty-five cents on the one
thousand dollars of taxable prop
erty, estimated to raise $784.26.
To pay agricultural and (or)
home demonstration agents one
half mill or 50 cents on the one
thousand dollars of taxable prop
erty, estimated to raise $1,568.52.
To provide medical or other care
and hospitalization for the indigent
sick people of the county three
fourths mill or 75 cents on the one
thousand dollars of taxable prop
erty, estimated to raise $2,352.78.
It is further ordered by the
Board of Commissioners of Roads
and Revenues of said County, that
in addition to the taxes hereinbe
fore levied and assessed, a tax of
Five mills or Five and no] 100 dol
lars on the one thousand dollars of
taxable property is hereby levied
and assessed in accordance with
the acts of the general assembly,
approved August 18, 1919, amend
ing Paragraph 1, Section 4, Article
8 of the Constitution of the State
of Georgia, on every species of tax
able property, both real and per
sonal, in said county except within
the corporate limits of the town of
Trion, for the support of the public
schools of said county. Said levy
for the support of the public
schools of said county is made in
accordance with and upon recom-
mendation of the Board of Educa
tion of said County to be distributed
equitable according to the school
population, tax values, number of
teachers, and grade of license,
among the public schools of said
county, outside of the independent
system now excepted in the town
of Trion.
Be it further ordered by the
Board of Commissioners of Roads
and Revenue of said County, that
in addition to the taxes hereinbe
fore levied and assessed, the fol
lowing taxes are hereby levied and
assessed in accordance with the
act of 1908, for educational pur
poses within the school district
hereinbefore specified, the Board
of Trustees of said School District
having in each instance determined
the amount necessary to be raised
by local tax on all of the property
in each of said Districts as will
raise the necessary amounts to be
collected, to-wit: On all taxable
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1943
property, both real and personal,
in the county for school purposes
for the year 1944, except in the in
dependent school district, and all
lawful commissions.
It is also ordered that the fol
lowing tax rate fixed by the County
School Superintendent, and Trus
tees of the local tax digest be and
it is hereby levied and ordered col
lected:
Bolling school district, For Main
tenance 5 mills.
Cloudland School District, For
Maintenance 5 mills.
Echols School District, For Main
tenance 3 mills.
Gore School District, For Main
tenance 5 mills, for bonds 10 mills.
Hanson School District, For
Maintenance 3 mills.
Lyerly School District, For Main
tenance 5 mills, for bonds 2 mills.
Pine Grove School District, For
Maintenance 5 mills.
Sublfcna School District, For
Maintenance 5 mills, for bonds 6
mills.
Teloga School District, For Main
tenance 2 mills.
Summerville Consolidated School
District, For Maintenance 5 mills,
for bonds 8 mills.
Menlo School District, For Main
tenance 5 mills, for bonds 8 mills.
It is hereby ordered that the Tax
Collector of said County collect the
taxes herein levied in and for the
School Districts heretofore speci
fied, and pay over said taxes to the
proper authorities of the aforesaid
School Districts.
Passed at regular session, this
the 16th day of August, 1943.
Commissioners of Roads and
Revenue
F. A. JUSTICE,
Chairman
G. W. AGNEW
R. C. FLOYD
C. J. HARLOW
H. B. HIX
Oak Hill News
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hawkins and
family spent Sunday in Alabama.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Whaley were
guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. C.
C. Brooks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Massey are
visiting relatives here.
Mrs. John Echols and Norman
Bryant from Rome and Pvt. Mack
Bryant from Louisiana spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Haw
kins.
Mrs. Bud Warren was week-end
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Rickett.
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Ward were
guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Hu
bert Jones.
Mrs. Milton Jones entertained
her Sunday school class with din
ner Sunday. Those present were
W. M. Yarbrough, Virginia Mitch
e’l, Bobbie Yarbrough, Leia and
Sarah Rickett.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mitchell were
guests Sunday of Mrs. Fronia
Mitchell.
Mrs. Holt, of Lyerly, was week
end guest of Mrs. Walter Gardner.
THE ANSWERS
1. 238,857 miles average distance.
2. No; each state proclaims its
holidays.
3. 138.
4. 29,141 feet; Mt. Everest is the
Himalayas.
5. Off Mindanao, in the Philip
pine group, about 35,000 feet.
6. Yes; a slave was counted as
“three-fifths” of a person.
7. 11,400,000.
8. 12,865,518 by the 1940 census.
9. 68,509.432 gross tons.
10. Borneo.