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No. 6.
An Ordinance to
provide for the Repeal of Unequal Taxation.
WHEREAS, The General Assembly
of the Provisional Government of Florida passed an Act entitles “An Act
concerning Schools for Freedmen,” approved January 16th, 1866, whereby a tax of
one dollar each is assessed and levied upon all male persons of color between
the ages of twenty-one years and fifty-five, and the proceeds of which are
denominated a common school fund for the education of freedmen; AND WHEREAS, The
said tax so unequally, discriminatingly, and injuriously levied and collected,
has failed to result in any benefit in the least to those for whose education it
was claimed to have been enacted, and is imposed in violation of public and
impartial justice, and that civil and political equality which is now the
inalienable franchise and birthright of every citizen of the State, without
regard to race, color, or previous condition; therefore, Be it Ordained by the
People of Florida in Convention assembled, That so much of said Act as provides
for the assessment and levy of one dollar each upon all male persons of color
between the ages of twenty-one and fifty-five, be and the same is hereby
repealed, and all further assessment and collection of said tax shall be and the
same is hereby estopped and prohibited.
Passed in open Convention, February 22, A. D. 1868.
HORATIO JENKINS, JR., President.
SHERMAN CONANT, Secretary.
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