The members of the Board of Alderman paid Miss Emily a visit in the hope of collecting the taxes that she had failed to pay for years.
Colonel Sartoris, the mayor over a decade ago, freed Emily from paying taxes after her father's death. The new wave of officials running Jefferson were not in agreement with this decision and they were determined to get Miss Emily to understand that all citizens paid taxes.
Miss Emily had no tolerance for the men, nor their ideas that she should be paying taxes. She continually interrupted them during their visit, letting them know that she had been excused from paying taxes long ago. Their explanation that there was no written documentation of this was still not good enough for Miss Emily. She continued to repeat "I have no taxes in Jefferson" to the men.
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