The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-22
BOARD MADE KNOWN
ALL PARTS OF STATE REPRESENT
ED ON HEALTH BOARD.
DR.. W. W. OWENS, SAVANNAH,
APPOINTED FROM FIRST DISTRICT
FOR TWO YEARS.

Terms of Members Determined by
shortly Election of President
and of Secretary to BE Held Then.
Last Tax Digest Received-Total
Taxable Property of state $432,-
767 ISL - Increase of So, 500, 600.
Tax Rate to BE Fixed without
Franchise Returns.
Atlanta, Aug. 21.-Gov. Terrell to-
day appointed the State Board of
Health, consisting of one member from
each congressional district, under the act
passed at the recent session of the Cen
eral Assembly. The board is quite a
strong one. The act provided that one
of the eleven members should be APP
pointed for six years, while the terms
of two others should expire every
year.
The Governor appointed Or. Frank
M. Ridley of Lagrange, the member
from his own congressional district, to
the six-year term, and then drew lots
to fix the terms of the other members.
DR.. Ridley's term expires Jan. /, 1909.
The other members of the hoard and
the dates of expiration of their terms
are as follows: DR.. Willis f. West
noreland of Atlanta. from the Fifth,
and DR.. R. M. Hardin of Rome from
the Seventh, for the terms expiring
Jan. 1, 1908: DR.. Giles Hathicock of
Bolton from the Ninth, and DR.. Charles
Hicks of Dublin. from the Eleventh.
for the term expiring 1907; DR.. w.
w. Owens of Savannah, from the First,
and DR.. A. P. Taylor of Townsville,
from the Second, for the term expiring
1906; DR.. NJ. S. Brown of Fort Valley,
from the Third. and DR.. Howard J..
Williams of Macon from the Sixth, for
the term expiring, 1905; DR.. Samuel c..
Benedict of Athens. from the Eighth,
and DR.. j. B. Morgan of Augusta from
the Tenth, for the term expiring 1904.
The members of the board will hold
a meeting within the next few days
in the Capitol and will elect a presi-
dent and secretary. The secretary
is to have an office in the Capitol and
will be on duty continually. He will
receive a salary of $4,000 a year, while
the members of the board will receive
only actual expenses in attending
meetings.
The last county digest was received
at the Office of the controller general
to-day 1t is from Telfair county, this
county showing an increase over last
year of little more than 500, 900. The
total taxable property in the state as
shown by the footing up of these OIL
gests is $432, 767, 1881, an increase over
last year of about $22, 800, 900. There
will have to be an increase of more
than $40, 100000 in railroad and corpora
ton property to bring the total re-
turns of the state Up above the hall
billion mark. but there is no doubt
that this figure will De reached.
The tax commission will have to go
ahead with the matter of fixing the
tax rate without getting in al! the
franchise tax returns from the arbi-
tration boards. The controller gen
eral has been informed that the At.
lantic Coast Line arbitration will not
be held until Sept. Is, and several
others have been put off until next
month.
The result is these figures cannot bc
had in working down the tax rate and
there is still a doubt about it's show
ing any substantial decrease. Twenty
five millions are still in dispute in
these arbitrations which have not yet
been heard from