Very Rare - Year 1949 Mississippi Poll Tax Receipt, Clay County Sheriff's Office
Up for auction is one (1) $2.00 Poll Tax Receipt for the year 1949 for Clay County Mississippi, Sheriff's Office. This is an ORIGINAL and NOT a Reproduction! On the reverse side are five (5) lined sections marked "VOTED" for the purpose of the voting official to stamp the date and polling station when and if these were used. Please note that this one has not been stamped as such. Please note in the photo, that the has sustained a little wear damage due to its age, but overall is surprisingly in very good condition for its age. Please remember that this is about 70 years old and that these are obviously not being made anymore. This is an original! I believe that you can make out everything else on the front of this receipt in my photo, which is of the actual auction item! Please feel free to add this to your watch list and/or ask questions. Please remember that we sellers have e-Bay insertion fees, e-Bay final value fees, and PayPal fees, as well as postage and other incidental costs, and a portion of these are sometimes included in the S&H charge, where applicable. Thank you for your understanding! This seems to be a very rare and nice political or cultural change piece of memorabilia that is getting very difficult to find. For those who are unfamiliar with this tax, please read the following and feel free to add to it: Tax on voting: A poll tax, in the sense of a discrimination tax which was a precondition of the exercise of the right to vote, emerged in some US states in the late 19th century. After the right to vote was extended to all races by the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment, many Southern states enacted poll tax laws which often included a grandfather clause that allowed any adult male whose father or grandfather had voted in a specific year prior to the abolition of slavery to vote without paying the tax. These laws achieved the desired effect of disenfranchising African-American and Native American voters as well as poor whites who immigrated after the year specified. The United States government did not levy poll taxes which blocked access to voting rights. This is partially because the national government earned its revenues from income tax and excise taxes rather than from capitation, which required apportionment among the states.[3] This is also because the national government did not conduct elections for its offices, instead delegating conduct of elections to the states. The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, outlawed the use of this tax (or any other tax) as a precondition for voting in Federal elections. The 1966 Supreme Court case Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections extended this explicit enactment as a matter of judicial interpretation of a more general provision, ruling that the imposition of a poll tax in state elections violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. This is one of several rulings that rely on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment rather than the more direct provision of the 15th Amendment. In a two-month period in the spring of 1966, the last four states to still charge a poll tax, had those laws declared unconstitutional by Federal courts, starting with Texas on February 9. Decisions followed for Alabama (Mar. 3) and Virginia (Mar. 25). Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966, by a Federal panel in Jackson, Mississippi. [4] Please look at the photo. It is of the actual item upon which you are bidding.Please ask if you would like more information and/or photos.I also ask that the winning bidder provide a totally correct (as defined by the USPS) and "CONFIRMED" address when paying with Pay-Pal, otherwise I reserve the right not to ship to an incorrect and/or UNCONFIRMED address! In case it matters, this comes from a smoke free home.Thank you! Please note that as a member of e-Bay's Green Team, I do my best to reuse shipping materials and would like to kindly request that you also do such! Please make sure that you submit a totally correct shipping address that is the same as your PayPal “Confirmed” address and please make sure it is NOT a “Forwarding” address. I cannot, and therefore will not, be responsible for errors, intentional or unintentional, in submitted addresses or “Forwarding” addresses. I reserve the right to NOT ship items unless you meet these requirements. Another thing that I would like for you to do is to visit the websites of the USPS, FedEx, and UPS to investigate the shipping fees that they charge. If you are not accustomed to mailing and/or shipping things, you may not be aware of how high these costs have become. In addition to the actual postage costs, there are other costs associated with shipping, such as the mailing containers, packaging, postage labels, tape, glue, printer ink, and many other allocatable costs. In other words, when you leave feedback and “Detailed Seller Ratings” please know that the S&H fees are reasonable and mostly out of the control of the seller. Thank you for your understanding!
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Up for auction is one (1) $2.00 Poll Tax Receipt for the year 1949 for Clay County Mississippi, Sheriff’s Office. This is an ORIGINAL and NOT a Reproduction! On the reverse side are five (5) lined sections marked « VOTED » for the purpose of the voting official to stamp the date and polling station when and if these were used. Please note that this one has not been stamped as such. Please note in the photo, that the has sustained a little wear damage due to its age, but overall is surprisingly in very good condition for its age. Please remember that this is about 70 years old and that these are obviously not being made anymore. This is an original! I believe that you can make out everything else on the front of this receipt in my photo, which is of the actual auction item! Please feel free to add this to your watch list and/or ask questions. Please remember that we sellers have e-Bay insertion fees, e-Bay final value fees, and PayPal fees, as well as postage and other incidental costs, and a portion of these are sometimes included in the S&H charge, where applicable. Thank you for your understanding! This seems to be a very rare and nice political or cultural change piece of memorabilia that is getting very difficult to find. For those who are unfamiliar with this tax, please read the following and feel free to add to it: Tax on voting: A poll tax, in the sense of a discrimination tax which was a precondition of the exercise of the right to vote, emerged in some US states in the late 19th century. After the right to vote was extended to all races by the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment, many Southern states enacted poll tax laws which often included a grandfather clause that allowed any adult male whose father or grandfather had voted in a specific year prior to the abolition of slavery to vote without paying the tax. These laws achieved the desired effect of disenfranchising African-American and Native American voters as well as poor whites who immigrated after the year specified. The United States government did not levy poll taxes which blocked access to voting rights. This is partially because the national government earned its revenues from income tax and excise taxes rather than from capitation, which required apportionment among the states.[3] This is also because the national government did not conduct elections for its offices, instead delegating conduct of elections to the states. The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, outlawed the use of this tax (or any other tax) as a precondition for voting in Federal elections. The 1966 Supreme Court case Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections extended this explicit enactment as a matter of judicial interpretation of a more general provision, ruling that the imposition of a poll tax in state elections violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. This is one of several rulings that rely on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment rather than the more direct provision of the 15th Amendment. In a two-month period in the spring of 1966, the last four states to still charge a poll tax, had those laws declared unconstitutional by Federal courts, starting with Texas on February 9. Decisions followed for Alabama (Mar. 3) and Virginia (Mar. 25). Mississippi’s $2.00 poll tax was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966, by a Federal panel in Jackson, Mississippi. [4] Please look at the photo. It is of the actual item upon which you are bidding.Please ask if you would like more information and/or photos.I also ask that the winning bidder provide a totally correct (as defined by the USPS) and « CONFIRMED » address when paying with Pay-Pal, otherwise I reserve the right not to ship to an incorrect and/or UNCONFIRMED address! In case it matters, this comes from a smoke free home.Thank you! Please note that as a member of e-Bay’s Green Team, I do my best to reuse shipping materials and would like to kindly request that you also do such! Please make sure that you submit a totally correct shipping address that is the same as your PayPal “Confirmed” address and please make sure it is NOT a “Forwarding” address. I cannot, and therefore will not, be responsible for errors, intentional or unintentional, in submitted addresses or “Forwarding” addresses. I reserve the right to NOT ship items unless you meet these requirements. Another thing that I would like for you to do is to visit the websites of the USPS, FedEx, and UPS to investigate the shipping fees that they charge. If you are not accustomed to mailing and/or shipping things, you may not be aware of how high these costs have become. In addition to the actual postage costs, there are other costs associated with shipping, such as the mailing containers, packaging, postage labels, tape, glue, printer ink, and many other allocatable costs. In other words, when you leave feedback and “Detailed Seller Ratings” please know that the S&H fees are reasonable and mostly out of the control of the seller. Thank you for your understanding!
