Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-06-07

The Avalanche has the following
sockdolagcr: cone of the most obi
Gus features Of taxation IS that
which requires q person 10 pay for
the privilege of making a living
honestly. The Tennessee laws do
not stop at taxing real estate or
personal property at more than it is
worth, but demand a tax for the
privilege of employing ones capital
in business pursuits. The new as
sessment law taxes everybody and
everything for privileges, making
wholesale sweeping exactions, that
the funding jobbers may get their
millions from the heavily burdened
taxpayers without the debt being
reduced a dollar. Section 46 thus
enumeratcs the occupations and
business transactions that shall be
deemed privileges, and be taxed,
and not pursued and done without
license:
Merchants, commission Wholesale
and retaiD auctiOnecrs, architects,
cigar stands, civil engineering,
plumbers and gas filters, dental sur
geons, lawyers, artists and photo
graphers, brewers, banks or bank
ing, brokers of all kinds, butchers,
bagatelle tables, billiard tables, Jen-
ny Lind tables, pool tables, circuses,
menageries, exhibitions for profit,
slight-of-hand and legerdemain, car
riages, hacks, drays and wheeled
vehicles run for profit, hucksters,
sample sellers, cattle dealers, claim
agents, horse and mule dealers, lum-
Der dealers, stock yards, sale stables,
fruit stands, shooting galleries, no.
tells or taYerns, express companies,
express wagons and Irts, transfer
wagons, intelligence offices d keep
ers, the business of insurance, insu-
rance agents, livery stables, sale sta
bles, omnibuses, peddlers of patent
rights, peddlers of patent medicines
and nostrums, peddlers of merchan-
disc, pawnbrokers, liquor dealers
Wholesale and retail) skating Kinks,
steam ferries, sewing machines, sell
ing by sample, dealing in securities,
shaving notes, theaters, telegraphs,
ten pin alleys, variety establish
ments, commission brokers, dealers
in stocks and bonds (other than bro
kers) dealers in county certificates
or warrants
"The penalty for noncompliance
with this law that proposes to grind
the people into the dust is as severe
as the necessities of the funding
ring in whose especial interest Ten
nessee is just now managed, re-
CURED"
Section 25. ANY person, compa-
ny, firm or corporation in any coun-
ty not assessed as contemplated by
this act, or assessed on an adequate
amount, it shall be the duty of the
chairman or judge, clerk, trustee,
sheriff or tax collector to cite said
person, company, firm or corpora
ton, their agent, attorney or repre-
sentative, to appear before them for
the purpose of being assessed &C
cording TO law; and said chairman
or judge, clerk and trustee, or tax
collector, are hereby authorized and
empowered to make the proper as
sessment, and should it appear that
said person, company, firm or cor
poratiOn, did in any manner connive
at, or purpOsely evade said assess
ment, or did knowingly permit an
inadequate assessment to be made,
said chairman or judge, clerk and
trustee, or tax collector shall correct
said assessment, and shall add fifty
per cent to the amount of said as
sessment, and cause the same to be
entered upon the tax books for col
lection.