Valdez daily prospector., 1913-07-26
YOUR POLL TAX IS DUE,
 BLOW IN WITH 4 BUCKS

approved May 1, 1913, and in eff feet from and after said date, an annual tax in the sum of four dollars (S4), designated as a poll tax, is imposed and levied upon each male person (except- ing soldiers, sailors in the Unit ed States navy or revenue cut ter service, volunteer firemen, paupers, insane persons and Territorial charges) within tbe Territory of Alaska or the wat CTS thereof, over the age of twenty-one years and under the age of fifty years, to be paid and collected in the manner pro- vided in said act; and it is fur ther 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 sub ject 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 lia- ble to pay said tax to pay the same to such commissioner withinthe time in this notice be- low specified, that it shall be the 1 duty of the commissioner to re- ceipt to each persona by a re- ccipt from books thereof with stubs, supplied by the territorial treasurer) upon payment of said poll tax. winch receipt shall be the only evidence of payment, that every person indebted to one who ncglects or refuses, af- ter demand, to pay a poll tax, becomes liable therefor, 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 mo- tice to each delinquent, person. ally or by mail, and each delin- quent shall pay a penalty 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 prop erty owned by such delinquent person, in the manner provided by law for the sale of personal property on execution, and that any person who shall violate any of the provisions of said act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in 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 according to said provisions of said act, that said poll tax is due and payable be- tween the date of the first publi- cation of this notice, to wit, the 18th day of July 1913, and the first Monday. 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 Valdez precinct subject to said tax, that the payment thereof will be- come delinquent as provided in said act, to wit, on the expira- tion of last named date, that in case of failure to pay same, pen alties, 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 specified, in person or by mail to the undersigned com- missioner at his office, on Alas ka avenue opposite to the court house in Valdez, Alaska.
 THOMAS R. SHEPARD, U. s. Commissioner, ex-officip Poll Tax Collector, Valdez Pre-