People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — Remedy for Iowa Poor Tax Law. [ARTICLE]

Remedy for Iowa Poor Tax Law.

Des Moines, la., April 28. —A curative act was passed by both house 3 Monday amending the law fixing the levy of taxes by striking the words “including support of the poor’’ out of the section governing the levy for general county revenue. The law at present provides for the levy of four mills for county revenue, “including support of the poor.” In another statute it is provided that if this is not sufficient an additional tax of one mill may bo levied as a “poor tax.”