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Show ROCKEFELLER MAY ESCAPE ASSESSOR Law Recently Passed in Ohio, But Not Yet Signed, Operates to Oil King's Advantage, CLEVELAND. Ohio. Feb. 21. Tax Commissioners John D. Fackler and William Agnew, who have been trying to list $900,000,000 of John D. Rockefeller's Rocke-feller's stocks and bonds on tho personal per-sonal property duplicate of Cuyahoga county, discovered today that tho amendment by the legislature of the tax law this week at Columbus has probably exempted the oil lung's millions mil-lions from the Ohio law. Tho amonded statutes makes April 1 tax day instead of February 1. It provides that a taxpayer tax-payer must havo resided the greater portion of the provions twelvo months in this state. Rockefeller had been in Clovelaud moro than six of the twelvo months proceding February 1, but by his departure two weeks ago for, New York he will not have been in Cleveland Cleve-land during six months prior to April 1. The tax commissioners will urge Governor Cox to hurry homo from Florida, Flor-ida, where he has gone on a vacation, and. veto the amended tax law. |