This week’s photo is a scanned document from The Cal Price Papers Collection. The tax receipt reflects total taxes paid in the amount of $3.71 by Mr. James R. Poage in 1851. Taxes include: County Levy at 70 cents; Parish Levy at 74 cents; 5 horses at 12 cents each, 60 cents; 1 clock at 13 cents; and Land Tax on 90 Acres, $1.54. Sheriff of Pocahontas County at that time was Isaac Moore. (Courtesy of Jane Price Sharp, The Cal Price Papers, ID: PHD000002)

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