The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-07-10
ALL
FORMER RECORDS
ARE THE TRUSTEES TAX coLLEc-
TIoNs IN MAURY COUNTY
FOR PAST YEAR.


; Surprising all former records tn
5 collections Of Trustee Elem Thoma
or the taxes of 1907 aggregate s1S2
5 / 256.S9. This is an increase of abou
! SO 900 as compared with the collec
} lions for the previous year, although
} the percent OF collections as compared
B with the tax books Of 1906 was no
quite as large. There were more de
linquents this year than last and the
number of tracts of land sold for take:
was larger, due largely to the fnancia
depression of the past six or eight
months.
Trustee Thomas and his efficient
Deputy, Harris Puryear, have the re
ports of the collections, the delinquents
and the errors and double assessments
all ready to report to the County Court
when that body meets on Monday
morning Mr.. Thomas has estab-
a reputation for promptness in the
making of his settlements and he is
determined to sustain it this year.
For the past three years he has been
the first Trustee in Tennessee to make
final settlement with the Comptroller.
There were more errors and double
assessments in the tax book for the
past year than in that for the previous
year and when these are eliminated it
is found that the per cent of collec-
lions on the aggregate are practically
as large as for the previous year. In
one district alone errors and incorrect
assessment foot up thousands of dol
lars and despite this fact in this same
district there were forty-four tracts
of land that were not assessed, but
had to be placed on the supplemental
list by the Trustee.
On an aggregate of 1927, 14726 Trus-
tee Thomas collected taxes amounting |
to 1892 1868 an excess of over $4,000. |
On the tax book of 1906 the trustee
collected $122,403.15, the aggregate
for that year being $116,S32.26. In
the picked up taxes are Included the
railroad and other corporation taxes
which are assessed by the Railroad
Commission at Nashville.
There was collected upon the tax
book of 1907 $116,279.58 and from the
picked up taxes $15,926.S1 making a
total collection of $132,156.39. On the
TAX book for 1906 there was collected
S10S, 1875 and from the picked up
axes $14,233-40, making a total of ]
1922, 403.15. Therefore for the past
Jear there was a substantial increase
10Th in the collections from the tax I
,ook and from the supplemental roll
The delinquent list this year was s
bout $4,000 larger than for the pre- q
-ious year. For the book of 1906 the f
rrors insolvencies, double assessments t
nd land sales amounted to $S,662.62 O
nd for the book of 1907 upon which t
he taxes collected this year were paid, Fl
he errors, land sales, ETC., amounted S
D $10,S67.67. a
People generally will be surprised Il
t the small number of poll taxes that
re paid in this county. According to r
ne last census there are 5000 people tt
f voting age, white and black in this n
ounty, and yet during the past year a
.ss than 5000 poll taxes were collect n
i. Comparatively there are few
Oters over the age of fifty, hence it j
safe to say that there are in Maury s.
)unty 5000 people liable for poll tax S;
5. or this number 6,272 were as
,ssed. Only 1883 paid roll taxes dur CT
g the past wear and are qualified to st
)te at the coming August election "
hese fgures siye some idea of the re
lormous number of people who votei th
the primary Saturday wo do not st
~ a poll tax. Of this number who
i'd the tax during the past year not he
-er $500 are white and yet over 4, 500 al
hite men voted in the last primary. pa
til