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Increased Taxes Taxes Are Higher This Year Than Last

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
July
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

INCREASED TAXES.

Taxes are Higher This Year Than Last.

The city taxes this year will be $9.415 on the $1,000 valuation. Las year they were $5.92. Without the hospital site tax, the city taxes this year would have been $7.07. The amount of city taxes to be raised this year is $68,200 of which $17,000 is for the hospital site and $51,200 for other purposes. The assessed valuation of the city is $7,244,043 an increase of $97,000 over last year. The assessed valuation in this city is higher than that of Jackson. The state tax will also be considerably higher.