Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1886 — More About The County Finance. [ARTICLE]

More About The County Finance.

Two weeks ago we gave some interesting and vain ble figures from the county tax duplicate, for the year 1886. The —tabulated statement of the rate of taxation for the different funds in the various townships has been published, and below we give the sub stance of all the figures in the table. For comparison we also give some figures from the similar table for 1884; The various funds the rate of taxation of which is uniform in all the townships and corporations are: State tax on each SIOO 12cts. House tax on each SIOO 2 “ “ School “ “ “ 36 “ Endowment fund “ \ “ County Tax “ “ 4£ 85 “ “ Jail “ “ “ 10J “ Tp. Tuition “ “ “ 25“ State T*x on each poll 50 “ “ School “ “ 50“ These figures are all the same as for 1884 except the item of County tax, which last year wasl.2o on each $100; a reduction of 35 cents. OTHER TAXES BY TOWNSHIPS. ON EACH f ICQ VALUATION. :*: £ ; : F : * % TOWNSHIPS AND p ;jf j~. 't bs? TOWNS. j f: . I ,-sJ & ’ ;ct ct ; ct sct •* i ti aneifla Grove ;25 20 10 2 06:2 GilUra, 115:10:15:1 86 2 11 Walker,, |2o 25; 2012 61 Barkley, :25 : i0 20;2 Rensselaer, ; 50;2 01;2 61 3i«U, ;30;25; 15:2 212 56 Jordan, :30:15;15;2 11:2 61 Newton, •— 1 :2 ; >:15«25:2 16 2 46 Keener. 25:25:25:2 26 2 46 Rank kee, v 30 2515 2 21:2 66 Woeaffield, 30 20 25 2 26;2 71 Carpenter, 30 25 2063 81 Remington 251 762 16 M'ilrjy 25 25 40 2 61 3 21 pßion,’ 30 2020 2 21 2 56 The township Tuition tax is 25 cents in all townships, except Gillam, where it is 20 cents. In Milroy there is a township additional of 20 cents on each SIOO and in Rensselaer there is a towhship tuition tax of 25 cents on each jx)ll; and in Remington a special school tax of IROO oh each poll.