Milford chronicle., 1921-10-07
TAX COMMISSIONER
FOR STATE NAMED
GOVERNOR WILLIAM D. DENNEY ON
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, AP-
APPOINTED Geo. W. SPARKS.
CHARLES S. RICE ASSISTANT
HI. GILLIS'AND J. 7. MACEE, WHINING
NON; A. A. WATSON, DOVER, W.R.
MESSICK, LEWES, HIS AIDS.

An assistant tax commissioner
two deputy collectors and two tielC
agents, comprising the personnel OF
the staff of Col. George w. Sparks
named State Tax Commissioner by
Governor Denney on Thursday of last
week. have been named by Colonel
Sparks. The appointment are as fol-
lows:
Charles Sherburne Rice, Whining
ton. assistant tax commissioner.
DR.. William R. Messick, Lewes,
deputy collector OF income tax.
Harry 1. Gillis, Wilmington, deputy
collector of corporation tax.
John T. Magee, Wilmington. field
clerk for New Castle county.
A A. Watson, Dover, field clerk tor
Kent and Sussex county.
The appOintees are all well known
Republicans. That Magistrate Gillis
and DR.. Messick were to be named
for the posts had been repeatedly
forecast. Commissioner Sparks stated
that he had not named any clerks nor
would he for some time. The new
board will open Office at No. ., East
Ninth street in Wilmington Savings
effective November 1.
Mr.. Rice, who is named as assist
ant tax commissioner, resides at All
West Twenty-secOnd street, in Will
mington, and is brother of Resident
Judge Herbert L. Rice. He served sew
eral years as clerk of the Municipal
Court Of that city, and served two
terms as collector of taxes for the
Northern District of Wilmington. He
is an expert auditor.
DIR. Messick, who will have charge
of the income tax department, serv-
ed as State cannery inspector, and is
Federal appraiser of drugs and
chemicals at the collector of ports
office in Philadelphia.
Harry 1. Gillis, deputy in charge of
the corporation tax department, is at
present deputy county treasurer Of
New Castle county and was for twelve
years a magistrate. He resides at 219 /
West Eighteenth street, Wilmington.
Mr.. Magee who has been named field .
agent for New Castle county lives at .
sos South Heald street, Wilmington,
and has been associated with State
Treasurer Fisher in collecting the
State income tax for the past year.
a. A. Watson, of Dover, was deputy
State auditor under State Auditor
Townsend, and has served
the Legislature in a clerical capacity.
DR.. Messick and Mr.. Gillis, the two
deputies named, will receive a salary
of not more than $4,000 yearly. The
of all appOintees of the Tax
Commissioner shall be fixed by the
Secretary of State, the State Auditor
md the State Tax Commissioner The
section of the law relating to the fix
ng of salaries by this board reads as
follows:
"The Tax Board shall fix the sal
lries of all appointees of the Tax
Commissioner, provided, however, that
he salary of the personal income tax
leputy shall not exceed $4,000 per an
lum, the salary of the corporation tax {
leputy shall not exceed $4,000 per an
lum, and provided that the salary of
10 other appointee shall exceed $4,000 ]
)er annum, and that the total of all {
alaries shall in no case exceed the {
mounts appropriated therefor by the 1
legislature. The quorum for the
of business of the Tax T
Ioard shall be any two members in 7
luding the Tax Commissioner. r