Note 6 — CIVIL WAR SKETCHES.
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The State authorities considered it inexpedient to levy heavier State taxes. The people had always been opposed to heavy State taxes, but paid county taxes more willingly. So the gift of $500,000 to the Confederate government in 1861, and the $2,000,000 war tax of the same year were assumed by the State and bonds were issued.—Stat.-at-Large, Prov. Cong., C. S. A., Feb. 8, 1861; Acts of Ala., Nov. 37, 1861.