Register of Military Tax to Repair Levee at McDonoughville — Algiers (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

Source catalog description

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The single–volume register of military tax to repair the levee at McDonoughville (201) is dated May 15, 1865 and arranged by initial letter of surname of taxed persons and thereunder numerically. Included in the volume is a copy of Circular Number 5, dated November 1, 1865, exempting certain persons from paying the levee tax. The volume also contains letters sent and summonses to appear at the agent's office, August 1866–August 1867, arranged chronologically; a register of summonses to appear at the agent's office, August 1867–November 1868, arranged chronologically; a register of "Indigent and Destitute Freed People Applying for Relief," January–August 1868, arranged chronologically; a register of "Indigent and Destitute White People Applying for Relief," January–July 1868, arranged chronologically; and a "List of Persons Promising to Pay at Stated Periods," apparently to pay either court costs, fines, or money owed following a court case, August 1867–July 1868, arranged chronologically.

Collection

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872 / Series 5: Subordinate Field Offices / 5.3: Algiers (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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