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Excerpt from Preliminary and Final Report of the West Virginia State Tax Commission: October, 1902 Such commission shall submit to the legislature, with their report, such measure or measures as they may deem necessary or expedient, to remedy defects, remove irregularities in our present laws, relating to the subjects named, and give the State a more efficient system of laws relating to assessments, taxation and revenues. The commission shall also consider the framing of a law classifying cities, towns and villages, and submit with their report, if practicable, a measure or measures providing by general law for such classification, and for the incorporation of cities and towns of over two thousand inhabitants, and for the amending of all municipal charters. The commission shall complete their labors here under not later than the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two. The said commission shall be paid each ten dollars a day for each day necessarily spent in the discharge of their duties under this resolution and their necessary traveling expenses, but only the time spent in the sitting of the commission shall be paid for, except in the case of a sub-committee sitting to discharge some duty imposed upon or referred to it by the commission. The commission may employ a secretary, whose compensation shall not exceed six hundred dollars. All the cost of said commission shall not exceed seventy-five hundred dollars, which amount is appropriated for the purpose, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and if the seventy-five hundred dollars shall prove insufficient to pay such cost under the provisions of this resolution, then the deficiency shall be met by a ratable reduction from the per diem of the members of the commission. Under the authority of the above resolution, the Governor appointed as members of the commission thereby authorized: W. P. Hubbard of Wheeling, Henry G. Davis of Elkins, L. J. Williams of Lewisburg, John H. Holt of Huntington, John K. Thompson of Raymond City. The Organization Of The Commission. On May 21st, 1901, a conference was held at the city of Buffalo, under the auspices of the National Civic Federation, to discuss and consider questions relating to taxation. This conference was attended by delegates from many of the States, among whom were men who have given much study to questions of this nature, and also men who have had experience in the practical administration of laws relating to the assessment, collection and disbursement of public revenues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
