GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION

Collection Title: Lake Charles Tax Records

Accession Number: 062

Container List

City Tax Collectors Cash Books

Box 1

August 1908 - October 1910 - city tax, school tax, licenses
October 1910 - January 1913 - taxes on city, city hall, fire station, special school, sewerage
January 1913 - September 1915 - taxes on city, city hall, fire station, special school, sewerage, paving
June 1920 - November 1926 - taxes on city, city school, city hall, fire station, paving, ward school, high school,
    colored school, sewerage, licenses and fines, automobile licenses, pound fines and electrical inspections

Box 2

October 1935 - December 1944 n. d.
January 1945 - September 1949
    contains taxes collected for city, school, city hall, fire station, paving, ward school, high school, colored school,
    drainage, park improvement, sewerage also records of penalties on taxes and licenses and permits.

Tax Rolls

Box 3

1918, 1919, 1920
    includes names of taxable persons, post office addresses, descriptions of lands, lots, live animals, machinery, vehicles,
    credits, franchises, building material and other property subject to taxation.

Assessment Rolls

Box 4

1898-1899, 1899-1900, 1901-1902, 1902-1903
    includes names of taxable persons, race, ward, number of acres, description of lands, lots, live animals, machinery,
    vehicles, credits, franchises, building materials, and other property subject to taxation, cash value, etc.

Box 5

1903-1904, 1904-1905, 1905-1906
    includes same information as in Box 4.

(one roll of microfilm for 1904 Tax Assessment Rolls Ward 7 Calcasieu Parish, is kept in the microfilm cabinet in the Archives Office)

Box 6

1906-1907, 1907-1908
    includes same information as in Box 4

Box 7

1908-1909, 1910-1911
    includes same information as in Box 4

Box 8

1911-1912, 1912-1913
    includes same information as in Box 4

Box 9

1913-1914, 1914-1915
    includes same information as in Box 4

Box 10

1915-1916, 1916-1917
includes same information as in Box 4

Box 11

Taxes collected from 1914-1917 from the fire department, police department, street department, city hall, board of health,
    pauper, misc. Lists businesses and individuals.

City Tax Collector Receipts, 1949-1952

Box 12

City of Lake Charles Street Map, 1940
    Plats of subdivisions and ownership of property shown

License Register, 1945-1948
    includes insurance, contractors, phonographs and pinball machines, taxi cabs, etc.