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96 Advalorem and Poll Tax. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE. ADV ALOREM AND POLL TAX. AN ORaIN ANCE levying a-ivalor.-m and poll tax for the year ¡SSg. , '- Be it ordained by the dty coundl of the city of Paris.. SEC. 1. That there is hereby levied for the year 1889, the following taxes, to-wit: For paying the current expenses of the city government of the city of Paris, a tax of 47 1-2. forty-seven and one-half cents on each and everyone hundred dollars worth of taxable property, situated in the city of Paris, and subject to taxation; for supplementing the state school fund and to defray the expenses in maintainining and carrying on the public school in the city of Paris, a tax of 20, twenty cents; for paying interest and creating a sinking fund for the city deb! bonds, a tax of 2 1-4, two and one-fourth cents; for paying interest and creating a sinking fund for the waterworks bonds of the city of Paris, a tax of ,18, eighteen cents; for paying interest and creating a sinking fund for the fire department and city prison bonds, a tax of 2 1-4, two and one-fourth cents; for paying interest and creating a sinking fund for the street improvemeut, bonds of the city of Paris, a tax of 10, ten cents on each and everyone hundred dollars worth of taxable property, situated within the city of Paris and subject to taxa~ tion. ,'.'~' SEC. 2. There is hereby levied a poll tax of one dollar for said year of 1889, on each and every male inhabitant of the city of Paris, (idiots and lunatics excepted) who was a resident of said city on the first day of January, 1889, and who is over twenty-one years and under sixty years of age. SEC. 3. The taxes herein levied shall be collected as is pro- vided by the ordinances and charter of the city of Paris. SEC. 4. The levy of taxes in this ordinance for the payment of interest and creating a sinking fund for the outstanding indebt- edness is not intended to be in addition to the special levy made at the time of creation of the debt for which it is levied, but is merely for the purpose of collecting the levy in one place. .