Louisiana's Poll Tax: 1888

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No. 81.] AN ACT In relation to free public schools, and to regulate public education in the State of Louisiana; to provide a revenue for the same, and impose certain penalties; and to apply fines imposed by district courts, and amounts collected on bonds, to the purpose of public education, and to provide for the payment of unpaid balances due to the public school teachers of New Orleans, for the years eighteen hundred and eighty (1880), eighteen hundred and eighty-one (1881), eighteen hundred and eighty-two (1882), and eighteen hundred and eighty-four (1884).

Approved July 12, 1888. FRANCIS T. NICHOLLS, Governor of the State of Louisiana.

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No. 85.] AN ACT To provide an annual revenue for the State of Louisiana by the levying of annual taxes upon all property not exempted by the Constitution from taxation, and by prescribing the methods of assessing and collecting the same, and of enforcing payment thereof.

Approved July 12, 1888.

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No. 89.] AN ACT Requiring the assessors in their respective parishes throughout the State to render a schedule list, by wards, of all persons subject to the payment of a poll tax, to the school boards of their respective parishes, by the first Saturday in October; and requiring the sheriff and tax collector to re- tarn a list (of which the list above mentioned shall serve as a basis of all the school poll tax to said boards, by wards, showing those who have paid and those delinquent, on the first Saturday of February each year, and to show cause in each instance of non-payment why they have not collected said poll tax.

Approved July 12, 1888. FRANCIS T. NICHOLLS, Governor of the State of Louisiana.