Louisiana's Poll Tax: 1818

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ACT No. 77. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 3 of Act 87 of 1886, entitled: “An act to provide for the better and more speedy collection of the poll tax.”

Approved: July 3, 1918. R. G. PLEASANT, Governor of the State of Louisiana.

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ACT NO. 228. AN ACT To repeal Act No. 89 of 1888 of the General Assembly approved July 12, 1888, entitled “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 Board of their respective parishes, by the first Saturday in October; and requiring the Sheriff and Tax Collector to return 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 11, 1918. R. G. PLEASANT, Governor of the State of Louisiana.

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ACT NO. 272. AN ACT To amend and re-enact the title and Sections 1, 3, 5, 6, and 8 of Act No. 34 of the Extra Session of 1917, entitled, “An Act to provide for the exercise of their franchise by qualified electors of this State absent from their election precincts on account of military service.”

Approved : July 11, 1918. R. G. PLEASANT, Governor of the State of Louisiana.