The Chitina leader., 1913-08-12
NOTICE TO PAY POLL TAX

Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern that by the provisions of Chapter 54 of the laws passed by the first legislature of the Territory of Alaska, entitled, "An act to impose a poll tax upon male persons in the Territory of Alaska and providing means for it's collection" approved May 1, 1913, and ineffect from and after said date, an annual tax in the sum of four dollars ($4), designated as poll tax, is imposed and levied upon each male persons (excepting soldiers, sailors in the United States navy or revenue cutter service, vol unteer firemen, paupers, insane per sons and territorial charges) within the Territory of Alaska or the waters thereof, over the age of twenty one years and under the age of fifty years, to be paid and collected in the manner provided in said act; and it is further provided in and by said act, among other things, that the commissioner of each precinct in said territory shall collect said poll tax from each person residing within his precinct subject thereto That said tax shall be paid between the first Monday in April and the first Monday in August in each year, that it shall be the duty of every person liable to pay said tax to pay the same to such commissioner within the time in this notice below specified, that it shall be the duty of the com missioner to receipt to each person (by receipt from books thereof with stubs, supplied by the terri torial treasurer) upon payment of said poll tax, which receipt shall be the only evidence of payment, that every person indebted to one who neglects or refuses, after demand, to pay poll tax, becomes liable there for, and may deduct the same from such indebtedness, that it shall be the duty of the commissioner to col lect and enforce the collection of all unpaid taxes by giving notice to each delinquent, personally or by mail, and each delinquent shall pay pen alty of one dollar in addition to such tax, that the commissioner, after de- mand and refusal of payment must collect said tax, with said penalty in addition, by seizure and sale of any personal property owned by such de- linquent person, in the manner pro- vided by law for the sale of personal property on execution, and that any person shall violate any of the provisions>ef said act shall be guilty of misdemeanor and upon convic- tion thereof shall be fined in a sum not more than one hundred dollars nor less than five dollars, or impris- oned in the federal jail for not more than thirty days nor less than one day.
 And notice is hereby further given by the undersigned, to each and every person subject to said tax ac- cording to said provisions of said act, that said poll tax is due and payable between the date of the first pubf- cation of this notice, to wit, the 29th day of July 1913, and the first Mon day, to wit, the 4th day of August 1913, that payment thereof on or before said last named date is hereby demanded by the undersigned from each and every person in the Chitina precinct subject to said tax, that the payment thereof will become de:ln- quent as provided in said act. to wit, on the expiration of the last named date, that in case of failure to pay same, penalties, as provided in this act will be imposed, and that it is the duty of every person liable to pay said tax to pay the same, within the time in this notice above speci- fled, in person or by mail to the undersigned commissioner at his office, on Main Street, in Chitina, Alaska.
 PAUL d'HEIRRY, U. s. Commissioner, exofficio Poll