Kendall County 1903 Poll Tax Records

 

Poll taxes were a tax of a fixed amount per person levied as a condition of voting.  Poll taxes generally were not intended to raise revenue so much as to restrict the size of the electorate by making voting more costly.  The poll tax was adopted in Texas in 1902.  It required payment of $1.50 and $1.75 to register to vote.  The poll tax was abolished by Amendment 24, which was added to the U. S. Constitution in 1964 and outlawed the use of the poll tax as a pre-condition for voting in any election for federal office.  The U. S. Supreme Court extended the ban to all state and local elections in 1966.

 

The 1903 Kendall County Poll Tax Records contains a great deal of information about male citizens of Kendall County.  The poll tax in 1903 was $1.50.  The county consisted of 8 precincts and there are two books for each precinct that as far as we can tell contain identical information.  The poll tax records list each individual, his home address and occupation, how long he has lived in Texas and in Kendall County.

 

Precinct 1 – Boerne

Precinct 2 – Pleasant Valley

Precinct 3 – Kendalia

Precinct 4 – Lindendale

Precinct 5 – Comfort

Precinct 6 – Sisterdale

Precinct 7 – Waring

Precinct 8 – Kreutzberg

 

It is interesting to note that, in Texas, loans and gifts for the payment of poll taxes were against the law.  Maury Maverick, a Mayor of San Antonio, was charged with loaning money to union members so they could pay their poll taxes and vote.  He was acquitted.

 

 

Surname

Given Name

Precinct

Receipt

 

Abel

William

1

048

A

Acker

Peter

3

077

 

Acker

Phillip

3

034

 

Adam

Hugo

1

134

 

Adam

Julius

1

021

 

Adam

Wm.

1

012

 

Agold

Sam

1

133

 

Ahrlitt

W. A. Jr.

1

025

 

Albrecht

G. L.

5

057

 

Albrecht

Hugo

5

063

 

Ammann

Adolf, Sr.

2

026

 

Ammann

Albert

1

044

 

Ammann

Chas.

1

041

 

Ammann

W. C.

7

018

 

Anderson

J. M.

1

099

 

Arhelger

Albert

6

012

 

Arhelger

Chas.

5

053

 

Arhelger

Hy.

6

014

 

Artz

Henry

3

062

 

Auberle

G. A.

3

074

 

Bankston

Henry

3

073

B

Barth

F.

5

020

 

Bauer

Dan

6

033

 

Bauer

Ernst

3

081

 

Baumann

Albert

1

016

 

Baumann

Gus

1

065

 

Baumann

Henry

1

018

 

Beck

Henry

4

003

 

Behr

Alfred

6

034

 

Behr

Edmund

6

058

 

Behr

Ottmar

6

049

 

Behr

Otto

6

057

 

Below

Max

5

062

 

Below

Otto P.

5

068

 

Below

Otto, Jr.

5

147

 

Bender

H., Jr.

3

064

 

Bergman

Dietrich

3

056

 

Bergmann

C. H.

1

082

 

Bergmann

Ch. W.

8

005

 

Bergmann

Chas.

8

031

 

Bergmann

Ernst

2

016

 

Bergmann

Fritz

8

017

 

Bergmann

Henry

5

049

 

Bergmann

Herman

4

001

 

Bergmann

Max

2

027

 

Bergmann

Oscar

1

136

 

Bergmann

Oscar

1

174

 

Beseler

Chas., Jr.

1

179

 

Beseler

Ernst

1

178

 

Beseler

Max

1

168

 

Betz

Frank

8

022

 

Bickel

Henry

1

180

 

Biermann

Gus.

5

109

 

Biermann

Louis

5

146

 

Biermann

Wm.

5

103

 

Bierschwale

Geo. F.

5

077

 

Bierschwale

J. H.

5

093

 

Bierschwale

R. C.

5

094

 

Blank

A.

1

052

 

Blank

J.

1

083

 

Blaschke

J. P.

7

001

 

Boehm

Traugot

1

059

 

Boerner

Wm.

5

022

 

Bohnert

Wm.

5

134

 

Bond

J. W.

1

183

 

Bonnet

Ernst

1

023

 

Bonnet

P. D.

1

098

 

Bourgeois

J. H.

1

074

 

Bowen

A. H.

1

036

 

Boyes

F. H.

1

138

 

Brandt

Chr.

2

005

 

Brinkmann

Alex.

5

038

 

Brinkmann

W.

5

037

 

Brown

Champie

5

113

 

Brown

Ira

1

024

 

Brown

Ives L.

7

035

 

Brown

R. M.

1

221

 

Burow

Albin

5

010

 

Burow

August

5

150

 

Caldwell

J. P.

4

004

C

Calmes

W. T.

1

186

 

Calrow

Gerald W.

1

140

 

Cancelled

 

7

011

 

Cancelled

 

7

019

 

Carstaujen

Rud.

1

217

 

City

M. L.

7

038

 

City

R. H.

7

036

 

Clark

Chas.

1

208

 

Click

T. H.

3

109

 

Codrington

T. O.

5

114

 

Codrington

T. P.

5

161

 

Cole

C. E.

1

216

 

Cole

J. J.

1

127

 

Cole

W. F.

1

219

 

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