The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
PAY MORE TAXES
At TER EXPOSURE
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Washington county has reached the Audi
tors office. and this amended statement
Increases the taxes to the State from the
good county of Washington something
over $1,000. which Is enough to Ape out
that county's deficit heretofore reported
and collected from the State treasury. II
the same judicial inquiry shall be extend
ed to the tax valuations in February when
the Taxpayers como to make oath MS to
the value OF their horses, mules, cattle,
furniture and other taxable things, and
extended stil further three years hence
when lands are again assessed. the prob
ability Is that Washington Will become
one Of the best revenue-producins coun-
ties old Virginia can boast OF.
The Times Dispatch has come into pos
session OF information that the action
OF Judge Hutton In Washington county
has cast wholesome influence over a I.
least two other Southwest Virginia coun-
ties, wherein there are taxpayers who
have reached a conclusion that the fever
which has attacked Judge Hutton may be
contagious. and other judges In the state
may be taken with It, Argaing thus, and
perhaps feeling that they are not alto
! gethcr innocent, they have volunteered
10 amend their own tax returns and the
auditor has received amended statements
| that came In this way.
A prominent State official. who has HAD
q peep at those returns. and who has
been In position to view with distrust
| the tax returns from the twenty-clght
| deficit counties. has felt 1t his duty TO
write Judge Hutton letter congratulat-
! ing him on his bold move. and EXPRESS
| ing to him the opinion that. his action In
washington county will easily add $4,000
| To Vlrginias tax receipts at tho very
first shake OF the bal" II other Judges.
especially those who preside over the
| tWenty-eight deficit counties. Will take
I n. cue from Judge Hutton, there Is no
telling where this good work will end.
Now Is the Time.
New assessments on pretty much
everything except real estate are to be
made in February, and that those In
| terosted may know Just where the trou-
| Bile lies, a reproduction OF some or the
salient features OF the article which ap-
| penred in this paper a month ago may
not DO out Of place. In that article u
was noted in the outset that all the
! 5cighteen cities in the State collect more
i than their treasurers have to pay out
4 and they pay into the State treasury
i or did In 1905, the sum OF $l,oo9 6SS.2s,
they having collected In the way OF
state taxes, fees. ETC., that sum In OK
cessi of what theya paid out for crimina
expenses, schools. commissions, etc.
Z Tho ono hundred counties paid into this
I treasury In. the year 1906 the aggregate
4 sum Of s5SS,84O.53 less S66, 1905, which
4 twenty-elght deficit counties drew ou'
8 Of tho treasury.
In 1906 Richmond city paid in, net
ss69, S0O.14, Norfolk paid In s164.Soo.Ol
4 These two cities paying in more casl
Z than tho one hundred counties combined
Lynchburg paid in $50, 623,9e; Danyllle
4 s44,636.21; Petersburg, sb6,211ls3; ~ Roa,
noke s43.7Oe.b2; Alexandria, $685.
Il Bristol, $14, 42O.66; Buenn Vista. s2,607. ~
. charlottesville. s1s.725.94: Fredericks
II burg. sl1, 915,46; Manchester, 2,a8o,2o
Newport News, s66,b5o.7s; Portsmouth
Il $40 ,O37; Radford. s5,O00.64; staunton
S23 ,905.sS; williamsburg, sl,7ll,74; Win
chester, s12,61S37.
The twenty-eight counties which i g
not take in enough money to pay thel
criminal expensesl their school teacher'
and other legitimate expenses, anll ~
a amounts they draw out Of the State
Treasury In excess Of their collections
are; Amelia, $s549s: APPROXIMATION, $500, 5s
q Amherst, s1,1ll.a5 brunswick, 5s5i5,6+; Bu
chnnan. $7,544,4S; Buckingham, $7o5,l9
q c,uroline, s232 90; Carroll, s., $500 Cumbe,
il land, s7e6.7s; 5pickenson, s5,2l5,9 &c., Dlnwid,
die S2l903; Floyd, $2,152.06; Fluyanna
. sgosbo; FRANKLIN, s6,523,20; Graysol,, 81,
247s4; Henry, s2,4s7, King George soI g
!, s37968; Lee, 81 ass, 90; Lunenburg, 81 69s, W
! Mathews s460.93; Middlesex, s9l.24; Fat
rick, s3s30,82; Pittsylvania, s6,6e325 Rich
n naond county. SS93.56i Russell Sll1SSS7