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AN ORDINANCE FIXING THE LEVY OR RATE OF TAXATION ON
Rt OPERTY IN THE CITY Cb' PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, FOR THE YEAR 1924
AND THE RATE OF THE POLL TAX, Y+ITH THE PURPOSE OF SAID LEVY HEREUNDER
DEFINED.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GENERaL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY.
SECTION I. That there is hereby levied for the year
1924, upon taxable property within the City of Paducah, Kentucky, real
and personal, an ad-volorem tax of One Dollar and Fifty Centp ($1.50)
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pursuant to Section 157 of the State Constitution, and Seventy Five
(75�) Cents pursuant to the State Constitution and Statutes of Kentucky,
to defray the expenses of maintaining the Schools, and Fifteen (15�)
Cents pursuant to said Constitution and Statutes for the purpose of pay-
ing the interest on the School Improvement Bonds and to create a Sink-
ing Fund for the payment of said bonds at maturity, making a total of
Two Dollars and Forty Cents 0;2.40) on each One Hundred Dollars worth
of said real and personal property in the City- of Paducah, Kentucky; and
there is also hereby levied a poll tax of One Dollar and Fifty Cents
01.50) on each male resident of the City of Paducah over 21 years of
age for the year 1924.
SECTION. 2. That the rate of taxation for each item of
expenditure, as heretofore apportioned and set out by Ordinance, shalI
be on each One Hundred Dollars worth of property,
as follows, to-rit:
Per X100.00
Assessed Valuation
CIM.- s
Schools
.75
School Improvement Bonds
..15
Interest and Sinking Fund
..2669
Executive Department
.7257
Police Department
.1519
Fire Department
.1964
Light Plant and Street Lights
.0793
Pater Rentals
.0575
Market House
.0129
Engineering Department
.0181
Sewers and Plumbing Insp:ctor
.0174
Costs and Suits
.0333
Parks
Library
.0129
Interest on Bills Payable
.0278
Wharf Iviasters Salary
.00.73
Board of Public works (Salary)
.0003
City Scales
.0011
Oak Grove
.0045
City Jail
.0262
Riverside uospital
.0119
Health Department
.0814
Charity
.0413
Streets Maintenance, New Construction
•0280
Contingent Fund
.2677
.0297
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SECTION 3, That all revenue derived from licenses or
other sources collected and paid to the Treasurer shall be distri-
buted to their respective accounts in the same proportion as the
ad-volorem tax, as hereinbefore provided for, except sources of
revenue which have not been considered in making up the apportion -
:rent Ordinance, and such revenue shall be credited to the Department
through which such course of revenue is collected.
SECTION 4. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in
frrce from and after its passage, approval and publication.