The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-16
AUTO OWNERS ARE
CALLED TO PAY UP
LICENSE BY OCT. |

Tallahassee, Sept. 15.-State Comp
troller Ernest Amos has notified all
County Tax Collectors that they
must carry out the provisions of the
new state law requiring the payment
on October I, 1917, by the owners of
all automobiles and other motor We
hicles of ont-fourth of the present
The one-fourth of the annual Ii
cense tax is to cover the last three
months of the present year. This
| will be the last opportunity the tax
collectors of the various counties will
have to collect from automobile
owners a license tax, for the new
law btcomes effective January 1,
1913, and after that date ali auto
| mobile license taxes must be paid
to the State Comptroller at ITALIA
hassee, by the owners of such We
hicles
The three months license tax to be
collected by the County Tax Collec-
tors will amount to very little in
many of the counties, but taken as
whole it should, if the collectors
do their duty, amount in the aggre-
gate to about $4,000.
OF the amount collected in each
| county eighty-five per cent will be
paid into the road and bridge fund
of the county, to be used for the
construction and repair of roads and
bridges. The remaining fifteen per
cent will be RENTED by the Tax
Collectors to the State Treasurer and
by that official is to be deposited in
a special fund for the maintenance
| of the State Road Department.
In the instructions sent out by
Comptroller Amos special attention
is called to the section of the new
| law requiring the tax collectors ito
! collect, in the usual manner, on the
first day of October, 1917, twenty
| five per cent of the present annual
automobile license, as provided by
| law, for the term of three months
| beginning October 1st. and ending
December 31st," and also to the pro-
vision in the same section to the
| effect that "no additional license tag
| shall be issued for that period"
| Concerning the feature relative to
| the license tag, the Comptroller's in
! structions are as follows:
| "You will notice that it becomes
! your duty to collect one-fourth. or
/ twenty-five per cent, of the present
/ ann1a1 license tdA, dS pioNioSo ~
| Chapter 1881, Laws of Florida, ap-
proved June 4, 1915, and that when
such license tax is collected you will
| deliver a receipt, or license, expiring
December 81, 1917. The metal tag
or number plate now on motor drivnn
vehicles showing the payment OF
/, license to October 1. 1917, can re-
main on the car until December 81.
1917, provided the above twenty-five
per cent of the present license tax
is paid to tax collector in each case,
but not otherwise"
The Comptroller states that: ION
| January /. 1913, each and every
| motor driven vehicle must be en-
tirelv free from any metal tag or
| number plate except such as are
furnished by the Comptroller, under
the Act of 1917, Chapter 1915, Laws
of Florida"
Under the present law the annual
license tax on automobiles is as fol-
lows:
On vehicles used for private pur-
poses, seating not more than two
persons, $500; seating three and not
more than five persons. 5000; seat
ing six and not more than ten per-
sons, $1,000; seating eleven and not
more than twenty persons, sl5-oG;
seating twenty-one or more persons
$500 From this it will be seer
that the amount to be collected To-
the three months license will be onl,
seventy five cents for two passenger
cars, S1.25 for fve-passenger cars
etc.
1t IS to be hoped that the tax col
lectors will carry out the instructions
of the Comptroller and collect the
three months license tax, otherwise
the counties will have a deficiency
in their road and bridge fund fol
the coming year.