Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-28
State HOUSE
Annual Conference of New Eng
land Tax Officials Dec. 8
And A at the State
House
STATE HOUSE CHAT
More Violators of the Game
Laws Are Punished-Insur-
ance Company Admitted
Corporation Matters
Next Meeting OF the Governor and
Council, p. NJ, Monday, Nov. 80.

! The fourth annual conference of New
England Tax officials Will be held at
| the State House, Thursday and Fri
| day, Dec. 3 and A and the arrange
ments are now being completed for
/ these meetings. The first session on
/ Thursday will be opened by the adj
| dress of Welcome by Governor Will
liam T. Haines. The State of Maine
! speakers and their subjects on the
opening day are as follows: Possible
Legislation Regarding Classification
! of Intangible Personal Property"
/ Clement f. Robinson, of Portland
| formerly secretary of the special tax
| commission Taxation of interest
Gearing Deposits in National Banks, 2
| William j. Thompson Of South China,
formerly a member of the board of
| State Assessors; Taxation of Auto
mobiles" Charles f. Sweet of Bangor,
chairman of the assessors of the city
of; Bangor; and THE General Situation
| in Maine Regarding Taxation George
| Pottle of Lewiston, formerly chairman
of the board of State assessors.
| The officers of the New England Tax
w. Bliss, chairman of the board of
Tax Commissioners or Rhode Island;
vice president, Hon. Bertrand G. Nc
Intire, chairman of the Board of state
Assessors of Maine; secretary, Hon.
| Charles A. Andrews, deputy tax COM
missioner for Massachusetts; execu-
tive COMMUNICATION. Zenas w. Bliss,
Hon. Bertrand G. MeIntire, Hon. Will
l;,,, 4ie.e. of
Connecticut, Hon. Charles A. Plumley,
/ tax commissioner of Vermont, and
! Hon Albert O. Brown, tax commits
sioner of New Hampshire.
The following, circular regarding the
meeting is being sent out by Charles
A. Andrews of Boston, secretary of the
association:
+ You are cordially invited to attend
the fourth annual conference of the
+ New England State Tax Officials to
1 be held at the State Capitol in Augusta,
| Maine, on Dec. and 4. The confer
ence will open at 10 A. NJ, on the 3rd.
The officials of the association are
preparing a program which they be-
/ lieve will be both interesting and in
/ structiye to those in attendance. A
/ principal part of this program will be
/ discussion of the proposed statute
/ in Maine providing for the classifi-
cation of property for the purposes of
i taxation in accordance with the 36th
i amendment to the Constitution of
Maine, which was adopted, in Septem7
| Der, 1918. A study of this question,
while perhaps having the most i'm
/ mediate interest for Maine, is bound
! TO have a great interest for every New
England state and the officials of every
/ New England state, since in each of
! the states there is underway at pres
ent a partial practice or a movement
+ towards classification of property for
purposes of taxation in one form or
/ another. Other topics to be discussed
| viii. il is believed, have no less in
terest for the representatives of the
several states
The Economic Club of Portland
will hold dinner in Portland at the
! Congress Square hotel on Wednesday
evening, Dec. ?, at 100 o'clock, at
which the subject for discussion will
be classification of Intangible Prop
erty for Taxation with Special Refer
ence to the 36th Amendment to the Con-
stitution of Maine" 1t is. expected
that the speakers will be the govern
or-elect of Maine. Hon. oakley c. Cur
tbs, Messrs. Bliss of Rhode Island,
Corbin of Connecticut McIntire of
Maine, Andrews and Bullock of Mas
sachusetts and possibly others. 1t is
evident. therefore, that this dinner of
the Economic Club will be in some es-
sential respects a first session of the
| conference.
he IL, lYt1 1vtn 1c,t To
attending the conference from out
side the State of Maine an invitation
to attend this dinner in Portland as
the guests of the club. If you expect
| to attend this dinner you should at
once notify the secretary of the club,
Mr. Clement F. Robinson, IS Exchange
|. street, Portland. You may also re-
quest Mr.. Robinson to reserve hotel
accommodations for you in Portland if
you SO desire. The expectation is that
those delegates who attend the dinner
of the Economic Club will go to Au-
gusta after the dinner Is over, or, more
preferably, will go to Augusta the next
morning on an early train by which
they can reach Augusta in time for the
opening session Of the conference. If
you desire hotel accommodations
made for you in Augusta. you should
at once notify Hon. 3. G. McIntire,
Board of State Assessors, Augusta.
Maine. Upon request Mr.. McIntire
will arrange your hotel accommo-
dations. 1t is expected that the ses-
sions of the conference will terminate
in time to allow those who desire to
start for home in the late afternoon
or evening of Friday, the fourth OF
December. The secretary will appre-
ciate 1t IL you will notify him of your
intention to attend the dinner in Port
land or the Conference or both"
vioIators Of Game Laws Punished.