The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-30
WILLIAMS GIVES
HIS ULTIMATUM
Attorney-General Insists on Pub
fishers Complying With
Statutes.

Attorney Williams remains
firm in mis- contention that foreign
corporations which desire to sell high
school books for use in this State must
procure certificates OF authority from
the State Corporation Commission II
is still believed that most of the
publishers. including all of the larger
although most OF them are expected
to later test the matter in the courts
Local book publishers have been
compelled to pay taxes of one sort or
another to do business In other States.
| In some places one reason Is given
and in another State there will be a
different reason. but they always get
the fee Judge Williams apparently
has the situation in his hand in that
he refused to sign the necessary con-
tracts until the law as he constructs 1t
is complied with.
| Sends Out Letter.
In a circular letter which the lAttor-
ney-General yesterday sent oct to pub
| fishers, he details the law on the sub
| tect. giving the amount of fees re-
CURED to be paid, and sums up his
| case as follows:
This tax must be paid by all COR
porations doing business In this State.
BY the express terms of the contract
Which your company proposes to enter
into for furnishing school books in
this State you undertake, contract
and agree to keep these books on sale
at all necessary and convenient places
in each county and city OF this STATE.
and the books are sold there for use
| In our public high schools, and 1t cam
| not be successfully contended. either
as matter of law or of fact, that a
| corporation carrying out this contract
lis not doing business in Virginia, and
LIT is equally as useless 20 contend chat
| such sales constitute or In any way
partake OF the nature of interstate
| commerce business, for we have MOTH
ing whatever to do with any contract
or arrangement you may make with
/ local book dealers to enable you to
comply with your contract to keen
/ these books on sale In each county and
| district OF this state.
our law further provides that every
/ corporation doing business IN Virginia
shall have an office in this State at
4 which all claims against the COMPANY
1 due residents OF the State may oe
4 audited. settled and paid, and our
! law expressly provides that every
II foreign corporations, before doing bust
ness in this State, shall present to the
state Corporation Commission power
or attorney. executed in duplicate, ap-
pointing some person, resident OF TINS
state, as agent, upon whom all legal
process against the corporation may
J be served, and that such corporation
n shall file with the Corporation Com
mission two duly authenticated copies
or the charter of the corporation, and
the certificate OF the Auditor OF Public
Accounts COT Nirglnla) showing the
payment into the treasury of the Zee
required by law to be paid by sucr
corporation, and then shall obtain
from said Corporation Commission q
license to transact business In TINS
state.
Until these plain and explicit pro
visions or our law are complied WITT
on your part, your company IS nv
authorized to do business in this state
and as a matter OF course cannot anc
viii not enter into any contract Wltr
llyour company FOR furnishing schoo
| books in this STATE.