Arizona republican., 1903-01-20
GOVERNORS MESSAGE
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 each instance to be established by leg islative enactment.
 The method I have suggested above of deriving an income for the territory from a tax upon corporations desiring to take advantage of our liberal corpor- alton laws-same to be done without conflict with either the organic act of the territory. or what is known as the Harrison act-is not suggested as the most correct or only method, but as one of the favorable ones; at any rate, l recommend that some means be de- vised by which an income can be de- rived from corporations taking advant- age of our laws, and the benefit to be derived therefrom be made to accrue to the territory.
 It might not be amiss here to call the attention of your honorable bodies to the increase, with the growth of the territory. of business in the auditors office. and the needed provision for care of records and documents.
 I would recommend that all cancelled bonds, bonds exchanged for funding bonds and other evidences of indebted ness of the various counties to the ter ritory, be deposited in the office of the auditor, to the end that all such records may be in one place; that proper ar engagements be made for their safe keeping; and that the necessary clerical force be allowed the auditor, that proper books and records may be kept.
 A complete listing of all property in the territory subject to taxation, in conjunction with the means above out lined for an increase in the revenue, will, to my mind, secure to the terri tory at a greatly reduced rate of tax ation, an amount necessary to cover all legitimate expenses of government and do away for all time to come with a floating debt, and in addition provide means for the redemption of our bonded indebtedness without manifest burden to the taxpayers of the territory.
 While upon the subject of taxation and revenue, it will not be amiss that I suggest to the legislature the necess- ity of establishing some unfailing method of collecting the tax known as the poll tax. the full amount of which collection goes to the support and main tenance of the public school system of the territory.
 Nothing can be more laudable than that proper support be given to the schools which will graduate the future citizens of Arizona, and this tax. solely for the support of our common schools, should be gladly and willingly paid by every public-spirited citizen, and special effort should be made for it's collection.
 In 1901 there was collected as a poll tax and turned into the school fund. the sum of s46, ,553 64, while in 1902 there was collected as a poll tax and turned into the school fund only $23, 942.51, T most notable decrease in the revenues from this source: to which your atten- tion is most earnestly invited, remem- bering that this method of taxation reaches many citizens who would otherwise aid in no way in the support of the territorial government.
 There are two other recomn1endatio l wish to make for your consideration: More in the line of economical admin istration, but equal in benefit to se- curing an increase of revenue, I most heartily recommend that the office of sheriff in the several counties, and jus tice of the peace, and constable in the several precincts of counties in the ter Titory, be made salaried offices, and that all fees be paid into the county treasury to the cdedit of the general fund. These salaries can be made com mensurate with the duties performed in each case, and I firmly believe that such a system inaugurated in Arizona will result in lasting good, in each in- stance, to the county treasury. Making the office of sheriff a salaried instead of a fee office, will, in addition to the aid given to the county in the increased revenues, tend much toward purifying elections.
 All offices in this territory, where pos sible, both territorial and county, should be made salaried, and all fees turned into the territorial or county treasury, as the case may be.
 ASSESSOR.
 Along this same line, I earnestly rec ommend that the office of assessor in each county in the territory be made elective instead of appointive, in order that each assessor shall be responsible to the electors of his county for the proper performance of his duty. DIVISION OF COUNTIES INTO DIS
 TRICTS.
 In order to further a more equitable and just administration of public af- fairs, the purification of elections and a more correct representation in the house of representatives cordially recommend the division of counties into supervisorial districts for the election of members of the board of supervisors Ca member to be elected from the district in which vacancy is to eXisO into representative districts, in order that where d county is to be represented in the lower house of the legislature by more than one member, said members shall be elected in their respective districts; and into voting precincts, distinctly described as to boundaries. in order that the election law now upon the statute books may be properly enforced.
 JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.
 It has been intimated to me that the greater number of cases coming before the courts of this territory are brought in the judicial districts comprised in the border counties of the territory, viz: Cochise, Pima and Santa Cruz, forming the First judicial district
 If such, upon examination, is found to be a fact, I would suggesr. as a remedy, that redistricting take place