Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-08-29
LOCAL NE US.
Con deBsed Locals.

The street lamps Will be lighted al IL
p. IN. and exttDguished at $50 a. m.
From Whitaker we have the London
Quarterly for July and from Par keT the New
York daily papers In advance ofthe mails.
The District Commissioners have APP
pointed Mr. VIM. III. Covington market mas
ter for the . street market, vice j. II. Ste-
vensOn, removed.
The Centennial excursion of the New York
State Press Association will arrive Ia PHIL
adelpbia to morrow, to remain until the 5th
proximo. when they will visit Washington
At the meeting of the New Jersey Repnb-
Hcan Association last evening ten ne u mem
beTs were elected. Speeches were made by
nj T. y: Hill and others, and songs were
SURG sur oy MI. +; h. Stocking and quartette
Yesterday Afternoon George Sled. a black
smlth; corner of ~ street and (Jeferson)
shOeing horse, re cetved a kicls on the ankle
Which severed an artery. The wounded man
Mss Conveyed 10 his room, where DR.. Mac
WlII1sms attended him.
The following were the bids made for fCrn-
Thing the Agricultural department with
Write ash coal for The ensuing year: ThOs.
s5.iI: ". III. Baum, s5.27; J. Dubois. 1913;
the Emery Coal company, S529; W. w.
Given 50 co. G. Y Alice, $50.
Another Personal Tax QuestIon,
LETTER From a sUBsCRIBsR WHO HAS
PAID DOUBLE TAX on WAGON.
EcE0T hGr:-Can you inform me what
right the Collector has to refuse 10 refund 10
me money paid for wagon license They re-
fuse TO refund all money paid before the 18th
ofJuIy and At the same time refuse to issue
paid before the 18th OF July was under the
old law. II such Is the case why is IL thew do
not collect the license tax according TO the
Old law, and make all that did not paw be.
fore the 18th Of July pay now as they ere no
more exempt from the LIST to the 18th of July
than those that paid. DO the CommissIor
ers intend 10 make fish OF one and flesh of
another by such decision? Have we that
paid the license got To pay the personal tax
on the same property?
TAXPAYER AND SUBscRrBER
THE EXPLANATION.
We would state for the Information OF
"Tax-Psyer and Subscriber" and others who
may have paid for their license and now
have TO pay their personal tax that the
yearly licenses for carts, wagons drays, &c,
expired on the 3Oth OF June, and as has been
the usual custom, the police notified the own
ers to renew the same. The Collector proceed
ed TO issue new licenses and receive payment
therefore until the 18th OF July, when he was
made aware that in the new District tax
Dill, approved on the l2Ih of July, Congress
nad adopted q clause repeating the license
tax on carts, wagons, &c, when further col
!ectons and issue OF licenses was discon-
finued.
The question of refunding to those vino
mao ARE ady paid for their licenses arose be-
tween the parties interested and the colIec-
TOR, by whom IL was submitted TO the Dis
tTlet commissioners, who at once recognized
us equity, In which view of the case the
attorney for the District cOneurred, but
when the claims for draw back reached the
Audlior be declined TO recognize all which
mad been paid between TIE 1st and l2Ih of
July ON the grounds that the money hal
been legally collected. and that no provision
had been made In the law for refundiug such
monies. Those which mad been paid on the
lZth and 18th OF July, however, he held to
have been Illegally collected. aud only those
nave been refunded. The decision of the
Auditor is strict, and PROBABLY a correct
CONSTRUCTION OF the law, and there is no rem
scy Ior taxpayer AID subscriber" except
by the passage o. an amendstOry act BY
Cor gresk authorizing the refunding OF ali
monies paid for such licenses SUBSEQUENT To
The seth OF June and previous to the 18TH OF
July. The whole amount collected for this
class OF licenses is S4.1iO. and the amount
reIunded thus far II so, leaving - T63 in the
District treasury.
CORRECTIONS.
IN Inc publication OF Assistant Attorney
BlrneyS explanations OF the personal tax
schedule in yesterdays STAR under cla1sl
10, I'D 5, The word CARR ages was errOneOuSIy
used In the place of carriage.
~ should read: "a hsckman owning two
horses and a carriage"
In the 18th clause, 9th lire, the ftaIicIsed
words surplus TeUerUe should read sitTU,,.s
TeS,TTe.