Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — City Tax Levy for 1901. [ARTICLE]

City Tax Levy for 1901.

At a special meeting of the common council l&6t Monday night the tax levy for the ensuing year was fixed at *1.65, the same as last year. The library tax was omitted, which throws the whole expense of keeping up the “Jasper Public Library” on Marion township and Jasper county. As the library is of practically no benefit whatever to anyone outside of Rensselaer, the taxpayers of the city can give the “horse laugh” to those wb* must pay for keeping it up. This action is all the more unjust by reason of Rensselaer’s voting a township tax upon Marion and now refusing to bear any library tax itself. The levy adopted on each SIOO valuation is as follows: Corporation Fund , 20 cent* Road fund 29 •• Sinking'fund 5 Special additional 10 “ School library 1 “ Waterworks 15 “ Electric light 10 " Special ach001.... 40 *' Tuition :)5 ■* Total $1.65 Since the above was in type we are informed that the city attorney instructed the council to drop the library tax, as the city would have to pay the library tax levied by the township, and it was not the intention to let Rensselaer taxpayers out of this tax altogether. If the city attorney gave any such instructions he ought to have a guardian appointed. Rensselaer has nothing whatever to do with the township levy, and as the city levy has already been certified to the county officers, the city will pay no library tax at oil. The township levy and the city levy are

separate and distinct, a fact which it would seem every man of ordinary intelligence ought to know.