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Try to Save 8oldler»' Property.Ail attempt to save the* property of Michigan RolUiem from being sold for taxes in being math* fur the boy* at Camp .MucArthur, Waco. Texan. Lieut. William Hnrcourt. a Detroit attorney and member of I he 20th machine gun battalion. has been assured by Detroit's corporation counsel that action will be taken to relieve soldiers of spa-clal taxes until after ihe war.A soldier at Waco who owns prop* erty In Detroit received a notice that unle** h sidewalk assessment was paid his property would be sold for taxes. Ills entire savings were Invested arid he had no menus of raising sufficient money to make tho payment. -Other cases of a like nature were discovered, and Lieut. Hnrcourt look ihe matter up w||b Detroit.Soldiers have been re eWing notices from holders of land contract!* also, that unless they paid up arroata and kept their payments going regu* J larly they would loso their Invest ments.Several men who own homes have been driven ho dasperato by the notices that ther hare made every sacrifice ( to keep up their payments, fearing, their families would be evicted.It fa understood that the Michigan law protecta a soldier, but the holders of these contracts do not know this luw, or. knowing It. will endeavor to make regular collection*: at any rata, there la a general lack of understand Ing among soldiers. Some sold tht.fr Llborty bonds to meet payment*: oco %old a lot he had Inherited. UpuL Hnrcourt will compile tile law on this subject and publish It In all (ha the Mtchfgnn units.
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The Lanse Sentinel
L' Anse, Michigan, US
Sat, Jan 12, 1918
Page 11
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Todd B.
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