The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-09-19
SUPREME. COURT
:. TO SAY WHETHER
I. TAX ! Az is. PAYABLE
- s1,5oo,ooo From Foreign Corpora
tons Rests on Decision Of
Highest Tribunal

Whether or not senate bill No AZ
passed at the last session of the legis
ature is constitutional, and whether OF
not the state of North Dakota may col
lect $1,50O,O0O in taxes from foreign
corporations OH moneys and credits
held in North Dakota rests with the
supreme court following a hearing
Monday.
Senate bill No 40 provides that all
book accounts, moneys, credits, mart
cages, notes, ETC., held against North
Dakota. parties by foreign interests
shall pay to the state mill tax. 1t
is estimated that there is at least
$500.00o,O00 so held. + ,-..
Attorney General William LANCER
and Assistant Attorney General F. E.
Packard defending the bill against
counsel retained by the various COM
panies, contend that, all such debts
are contracted in the state and result
from transitions within North Dakoto.
ia and the state has jurisdiction. The
plaintiffs contend that notes, mort
cages held, for instance in st. Paul,
are Minnesota owned and nontaxab!e
by North Dakota. The contention is
also raised that the bill restricts inter
state commerce in violation of federal
rulings.
Duriny the past three months, the
attorney generals office has searched
the records on the books of the coun-
ties of the state and has uncovered a
vast amount of foreign owned paper.
In addition to the chattel mortgages,
real estate mortgages, A. w. Carlson,
who has been collecting the data has
received returns from grain commits
sion firms to the amount of $4,000, 900.
!. The constitutionality of the income
tax law and the excise tax made
against foreign corporations of so
cents per thousand of business done in
the; state are said to hang. on stheAdes
i'll the senate Bill NO. 20 case s
F.' The list Of the counties and the
amount returned for each by the attor-
ney generals office are as follows:
: Adams County-S46. .612.
Barnes County-$77. .619.
Benson County-$137,012.
Billings County-$14,756.
Bottineau County-$168. .632.
Bowman County-$4O .403.
Burke County-$2S. 1854.
Burleigh County-s50. .351.
Cass County-$125. .212.
Cavalier County-$217. 1924.
Dickey County 59S.
Divide ,County--$33. .113.s
Dunn County-$4. SIT.
.Bmmons }County---$$2s865:.
Foster County-s54 s192:
Golden Valley-S15. 039.
Grand Forks County-$126.S 1888.
Grant County-$62. S59
Griggs Couny-$72,178.
Hettinger County-S1,322,40
Kidder County-$38. 993.
La Moure County-$94. .635.
Logan County-$50. .212.
McHenry County-$116. 486.
Mcintosh County-s7. 1856.
Mckenzie County-$45. .2O7.
Mclean County-$77. 765.
Mercer County-$56 .92A.
Morton County-$S2 316.
Mountrail County-S112 .0O5.
Nelson Countryside. .44S.
Pembina County--$26. 500.
Pierce Couny-$62. 575."
Ramsey County-$230.5 $50.
Ransom County-$2S. .234 2'>>.. r.. g. 80,
Renville County-$94. .O69. 7ts>. i l.
: /: Richland County-$1O2. .167. r.,
Rollette County-$26.113. & ~
Sargent County-$77,880 ziI,4s.
Sheridan County--s29z,411. Il 4 r.
Y Sioux ,County-$7,421.* vs$@.. NJ + y
Trail County S32. 1866. u! H4$ p
Walsh, County $9s 1862, =,@j1G. AZ Il. se
Ward County s27. 800 n. ~ /:
Count s11. .611 !, j. d .,5>..
Williams County y-7ss7o,877. .5,. u /. \:
Stark County AL &. n Y sf e.. 4.
Steele County-s99, 1872 5#5 II
stutsman Couny -$7S,213. III !s*$ Il @:}#
Towner County S92 ,O4S y'..l$:ss s5
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