22 March, Charlotte, In Georgia in early days ( and likely all the other states as well) the poll tax was the tax that adult whites paid to be able to vote in elections. The efforts at that early day was that the property owners were the ones voting, not the poor or the indigent people. It was a real tax on folks so that they were able to cast a vote! And , if one did not pay the poll tax, there was no vote. It was ruled unconstitutional as you can imagine. Anne R Bruce "Howard V. Jones" wrote: > Charlotte: > > Someone can give you a better answer, but at least I can tell you that > "poll" means "head", and so it is a tax on each individual. I think it > started at 16, but again, I'm not all that sure or knowledgeable. > > Howard V. Jones > > charolette sage wrote: > > > Question for anyone that wants to answer this. It probably is a stupid > > question, but please can someone answer. > > > > When a message or document references polls/poll tax, what are they > > paying taxes on? At what age where they required to pay poll tax? > > Thank you. > > Charolette Edmonson Sage > > > > ==== EDMONDSON Mailing List ==== > > ARCHIVES: > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=EDMONDSON > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/EDMONDSON-L/ > > > > ============================== > > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > > ==== EDMONDSON Mailing List ==== > Please help keep RootsWeb and free access to genealogical data growing. > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > Edmondson-L list manager: Margaret Edmondson Olson, olson@shout.net > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

Dear All England either still has a poll tax or was considering renewing it. If you find out the English definition, you will probably learn exactly what a poll tax was. When I was in England in 1991 they were talking about it. I believe it is a tax on every person as sort of a minimum fee that everyone was to pay. It may have been different here because obviously the slave owners didn't want to pay a tax on property, which the slaves were considered to be to justify their enslavement. I will copy some of our English Edmondsons to see what at least the English story is. Orvan Edmonson 22 March, Charlotte, In Georgia in early days ( and likely all the other states as well) the poll tax was the tax that adult whites paid to be able to vote in elections. The efforts at that early day was that the property owners were the ones voting, not the poor or the indigent people. It was a real tax on folks so that they were able to cast a vote! And , if one did not pay the poll tax, there was no vote. It was ruled unconstitutional as you can imagine. Anne R Bruce Question for anyone that wants to answer this. It probably is a stupid question, but please can someone answer. When a message or document references polls/poll tax, what are they paying taxes on? At what age where they required to pay poll tax? Thank you. Charolette Edmonson Sage