1880 — Mississippi — Arms Taxation

1880 Miss. L. chap. 6, p. 21

Summary

Continued to list pistols, dirks, Bowie knives, and sword canes as taxable property, following the 1871, 1876, and 1878 laws.

Statutory Text

SEC. 7. The Auditor of Public Accounts shall, before the first day of Feburary in each year, or as soon thereafter as he can, furnish each clerk of the board of supervisors with three copies of suitable assessment rolls, properly ruled and headed, for the assessment of personal property and polls, in which to enter the folowing items, viz: The name of the individual, corporation, company, society, partnership or firm, to whom any property shall be taxable; number of cattle, number of horses. number of mules, number of sheep, number of swine, in excess of the number exempted, number of carriages and other wheeled vehicles, pianos, pistols, dirks, bowie-knives, sword-canes, watches, jewelry, and gold and silver plate, (with a separate column for the value of each); amount of money employed in merchandise, amount of money employed in manufacture, amount of money on hand or deposit, or loaned; amount of indebtedness to him deemed probably collectable; amount of bonds or other forms of indebtedness held by him; amount of household furniture; amount of stock or shares in any corporation or company not required by law to be otherwise listed and taxed; amount of all other personal property not otherwise enumerated, and the number of polls, with a column to contain the aggregate of state tax. The cost of said books shall be paid out of the state treasury, on the warrant of the auditor.

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Title 1880 — Mississippi — Arms Taxation
Instrument Edged Weapons, Firearms
Jurisdiction MS
Date 1880