Show POLL PO LL TAX T A X LAW MAY NOT Apt st ML J Question as to of Ordinance 08 n ceo fP 4 t PAY PRY VOLUNTARILY 5 C a OF OP AMOUNT DUE DUB DUBIN IN idOS 03 COLLECTED C I S The whether the new poll on tax ordinance can be marie made retroactive will m have a great bearing b upon linen the th I collection of f that tax this ibis fall This I Is hI at present a matter f fur fill r the th ity at attorney atI atI I torney to decide Jut Junt as a soon as Mayor Mayr Ezra Jo ra Thompson signs the or r I t which was pawned passed td at Mondays session of o the city council it Is the thc I present intention of or Sti i Supervisor Peter K S Condie who hl h hs s charge of tho th I collection Jn of or the poll phi tax to 10 ask City Attorney Nye Nyc c whether the th taxes fo this year 8 r can lan be collected under its provisions I IThen Then is I a doubt hUlt in the minds oC tiC fI Born som whether thel the tho th 1901 9 I tax run an tm be rol oJ 1 under the provisions of the new nt ordinance It is Ii 1 held by some that in inasmuch inasmuch as af it was passed after the dat dal for the th commencement of 0 the collection tion of taxes Supervisor Condie has hal no ne noI I right to enforce it this year as aA such ai at a act would make the ordinance retro retroactive retroactive active Supervisor Condie Condl said yesterday Y aft afternoon afternoon ft that the enforcement of the new ordinance was Va giving hing him little con oon concern cern It was waR the least of Ms hir troubles trouble ho lie ridded because bee u people are paying paring their heir poll pretty promptly in spiTe spire pi I of 0 th t the h fact ot that there is It i tin n fl Ian lun lu on th theta Statute eta t ute hooks hook compelling n them t h to t do so Opinion to Be Asked Sit It is iR my Oh intention to ask Hsk sk City At Nye Nyc for tor an au opinion on m ii th modus under the ordinance a HUM Hi as is it ii is I m by y the mayor mayol said antI hi the hf t supervisor yesterday f tf Tit Th question qu for far w him to decide is whether h th we Wi ah h collect the th f 1903 1901 taxes under the thene th ne nm law Ii W If it he says sap w C p can an why then we f will do It H If H he hI says not then tho I hore thelt is I nothing for fr nl us UI to tn do 10 but hut to WH it until next year but hut In the th In tHim take In any and all taxes tax may mao he be offered to t us I Supervisor Condie ondie stated that the average arrage poll tax is i about per i year rear This year almost of f C that hat sum has been collected Some of oft It t has ha been secured through suits suite and the he remainder was nas a worked out or paid In n at lit the rate of 3 1 per day lay Ip ep i i to the ih time Urn Judge H S Tanner Tenner declared the poll tax law Jaw null and void the receipts rec were pre about In accordance e with those of lit it any n other year After Arter that time there was a decided falling off oft those who did not want to pay osy pa their thE tax taking advantage of the fact fat that the ordinance was invalid But there were hundreds o 01 other men through throughout out the city who appreciating the fact that the tax was wa due and justly jU so 80 even though there was a slight defect detec In in the law paid their annual annUlI dues du to the street supervisor and took their re me receipt receipt Will Push Collection Supervisor Condie said Raid that It If City Attorney Nye Nyc should hold that the new ordinance will permit him to collect this years ars poll tax he be will proceed along the same lines for its collection that the work ork wit wil be taken up at II t once one n where it was II left off when Judge Tanner handed banded down his decision deel Jon The supervisor does not think that the city will lose very much money should it be found that this years rears er tax cannot be collected under the new ordinance ordinance ordinance nance Already about of the tax has been paid in and every day one or more men walk into the supervisors ors office and pay y their tax It is l thought that by the end of the year th the only bce to the city will be 1000 or 2000 1100 which under ordinary circumstances j might possibly have hav to be sued cued for tor |