Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-11-30
THE STATE REVENUE AGENT
Has Not Yet Completed Biennial
Report. Which He is Making
Thorough in Every Detail.

Report, Which He is Making
Thorough in Every Detail.
Special 10 the Daily Progress.
jackson, Nov. 30.-State Revenue
Agent Writ Adams has not completed
bis biennial report which he will SUBJ
NIT to the legislature of Mississippi in
December. In order that his report
may be thorough in every respect MT.
Adams, will wait until all the deputies
have made their returns to him, and
in this way the transactions OF his
department are thoroughly covered up
to the time of the meeting OF the leg
islature The reporr of this official
will receive the most carr ful atten-
ton and earnest rerusal from every
legislator. in view of the fact that so
much discussion has been going on
about this branch Of Mississippi's
government.
Internationally the revenue de-
pertinent has been the most widely
cuSsed and discussed Of any depart
ment in the capitol building, and upon
no one subject is opinion more di-
vided III view of the recent actor
of the Mississippi Business Men +
League in appointing committee to
use every influence 10 get the revenue
laws of the state changed. the papers
of the state are this week discussing
the revenue gent and the revenn'
laws. On this point opinion is verN
divergent. Some of the editors hold
that the revenue laws are unjust.
make double taxation, drive capital
from the state. and Cypress the poor.
while other scribes hold that the rev.
enue agent il. the poor mans friend,
that he makes the large corporations
and the man who holds mortgages pay
his portion of the taxes, as we'll as
the farmer on his few acres Of ground
The opinion of one is that the law
should be { polished and the other
that it should stand. From the pres
ent discussion there seems to ba little
doubt but that the matter will come
mp before the Legislature.
Now all the discussion of the rev.
enue laws and Of the revenue agent
has been created by th9 assessment OF
solvent credits which have escaped
taxation, theref )re some facts in re-
gard TO these solvent credits, which
will be contained in the revenue
agents report to the Legislature, wi ]
be of great interest.
AS is we'll known all solv ant credits
are assessed by counties. The deputy
revenue agent go to the records OF
each comfy as kept in the chanceiN
clerks office. and from these iecorde
make list of a J solvent credits thsi
have not been given in to the assessor.
When a county has been worked it's
records are straight for all time TO
come, deed and mortgage books are
Strengthened out. and taxes upon all
EOINeUt CIRCUITS IGNH Uceu ptiu
The report of the revenue agent &c
the legislature will show that out OF
the seventy five counties in the state.
there are only nineteen that have not
been worked and in which all back
taxes due the state from solvent cred
its have not been collected and these
nineteen counties are: Benton, Cal
houn, Chnctaw, Franklin. Greene,
Issaquena, Ittawamb.., Kemper. Law
renee, Leake. Marion. Neshoba. Pearl
River Pontotoc, Sharkey, Union,
Wayne, Webster and Winston.
Thus in fifty counties out OF
seventy five in the state, all taxes due
Mississippi on money loaned has been
collected, or will be in a short while,
as there are severa', though they have
been worked, final settlement has not
been made, and the remaining nine
teen could be worked by the revenue
agent and his deputies in a few
months.