Bethlehem
Yes. But the taxes paid should be related only the the portion of property in each jurisdiction. In other words, the town in which the house is located should tax you for the land and house which is in it's jurisdiction, and the town in which the portion of backyard is located should only tax you for the portion of land within their jurisdiction.
Property.
In "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, the judge never actually tried to get Emily to pay her taxes with a rose. The town's officials rather decided to secretly sprinkle lime around Emily's property to mask the smell emanating from her house. This was done to avoid confronting her directly about the taxes and the smell coming from her property.
This varies from place to place. Generally, both partners appear in person before a town clerk or city clerk, present satisfactory identification, pay an applicable fee and sign an affidavit of domestic partnership.
The real 'Stagecoach Mary' story: Mary Fields, Black Mary, and 'Stagecoach Mary' are all one of the same person. Mary was born in 1832, a slave in Tennessee and was owned by a Catholic family; the father was a businessman and Judge who had a single girl child the same age as Mary. Mary's mother was the House Slave Servant and the judge's favorite cook; therefore Mary was always in the main house, in the kitchen and not in the fields, as a Field Slave. Mary's father was a Field Slave, and Field Slaves were not allowed in the Main House, much less, to court a House Slave. Mary's mother became pregnant by Mary's father and he was beaten and sold to another plantation for getting Mary's mother pregnant. After Mary's birth, Mary's mother and her were allowed to stay in the main house, and Mary became the Judge's daughters' playmate, therefore being the Judge's daughter's playmate, Mary was allowed to read and write, a rarity for that time. After the emancipation and coming into adulthood, Mary was 6 feet tall and weighed over 200 pounds. Mary became her own woman and traveled solely from Tennessee, up and down the Mississippi River, to Ohio, then finally to Montana where she got her nickname at the turn of the 20th Century. She earned this nickname by working for "Wells Fargo" delivering the United States Mail through adverse conditions that would have discouraged the most hardened frontiersmen of her time. All by herself, she never missed a day for 8 years, carrying the U. S. Mail and other important documents that helped settle the wild open territory of central west Montana. Mary had no fear of man, nor beast, and this sometimes got her into trouble. She delivered the mail regardless of the heat of the day, cold of night, wind, rain, sleet, snow, blizzards, Indians and Outlaws. Mary was a cigar smoking, shotgun and pistol toting Negro Woman, who even frequented saloons drinking whiskey with the men, a privilege only given to her, as a woman. However, not even this fact, sealed Mary's credentials given to her, her credentials boasted that, "She would knockout any man with one punch", a claim which she proved true. Her fame was so acclaimed, even the Actor, Gary Cooper, two time Academy Award Winner, told a story about her in 1959 which appeared in Ebony Magazine that same year. While, Annie Oakley and Martha Canary (Calamity Jane) were creating their history with Buffalo Bill, Stagecoach Mary was making "her Epic Journey!" Despite Mary's hardness, she had another side of her, a kindness so strong, even today, in the beginning of the 21st Century, the town of Cascade, Montana, and other surrounding communities celebrate her birthday. The Epic movie is in pre-production mode. Check out website at http://www.stagecoachmary.net
Joseph and Mary were traveling as a decree had gone out by Augustus that all must register in their own town. So Joseph was traveling with Mary to Bethlehem.
Mary married Joseph in the town of Nazareth before the birth of Jesus.
Nazareth
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3And everyone went to his own town to register. 4So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. Taken from Luke2:1-4(NIV)
Mary and Joseph lived in the town of Nazareth.
Mary was from the town of Nazareth in Galilee.
Yes. Matthew says that Bethlehem was the home town of Mary and Joseph, and that Jesus was born there. Luke also says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, but in this story, Nazareth is the home town of Mary and Joseph.
It doesn't.
We do not know anything about Joseph or where he was born, but we can make an educated guess. People tended to live in the town in which they were born. In Matthew's Gospel, Bethlehem seems to be the home town of Mary and Joseph, so Joseph was probably born in Bethlehem. In Luke's Gospel, Nazareth was the home town of Mary and Joseph, so Joseph was probably born in Nazareth.
Josephs and Marys hometown was Bethelehem.
No doubt Mary and Joseph would have been bethrothed in their home town, like most other people of their time. Matthew's Gospel says that Bethlehem, Judea was their home town until after the death of King Herod, while Luke's Gospel says that Nazareth, Galilee was their home town.
The emperor announced that everyone in the land had to be counted. Men had to return to their hometown. There they would tell their name and what land they owned. Jospeh belonged to the family line of David. King David's birthplace was Bethlehem. So he went to be counted. Like a census.