| Show INTERNAL AND CO dus DUX BILLS THE haul made by the collector of internal revenue from several co c inthis terri tory sometime comet am me ago will willbe be V re remembered M by the public ic tile the institutions tuti gons lons thu thus 8 are arc not likely lik ilk el boon eoon to io forget it Z C if L I 1 was bad hia baled to a heavy amount ay W teas tras as P paid aid ald under p protest retest and proceedings are still pending for its recovery the tile next heaviest loser of tho the commercial vital cluid by this opera lion lioa wasted brigham city mercantile If erean manufacturing alid association which handed over the neat little sum bum of also under protest suit was commenced for I 1 it t recovery on tuesday the dinst before judge emerson in the first district courtat court count at ogden the able firm of richards and williams W being attorn eys ays for the plaintiff plain tiff how many more of or the tile companies co mp allies ailles which were mulcted mulched in various sums follow suit for recovery anea we are r P not eik ely I 1 ut presume that la tile 1 evea event I 1 ot of the ph 4 1 success of euber eliher of tile tilo plaintiffs in the finite planted OLL others lena iera wilhalm will take Alm i simi simular similar lai course As it t is probable tha that kom some som e 0 of o f our readers do not remembert rem emberl melr meir eints th bilt dilt at tsue isue ge in the proceedings as as ex d in the NEWS neww at the time of the demand for payment aymett we villre e fer to them thom again agram by the apt of congress of feb esth 18 1873 1875 it s required that every pers person dil firm ass than Natio ratio national bank k associations blons lions and every corpora corporation 8 stame state e tank ank 0 or banking 0 association j r shall 11 ray pay TF T F a tax tai of ten per on the itle amount of bf their theli own notes used for circulation and paid out by then the collector here received instructions from the de department artmont at washington to enforce this Ws provision of ih the jaw and proceeded to assess this ta tax x on the scrip or orders issued issue a by byg our pr operative cooperative co cip opera tive institutions eions the th q F same aal p as thau though gh they were notes issued by banks for circulation an and to be used as cash cab cah tile the whole tenor tenon oe of jho fhe law on ahi ahl this subject sil sli shows dowst b hat it was intended to apply to notes used in circulation aa as money but the collector was sustained in his v views lows of the matter by the department part ment and the tax had to tobe be pai pal paid id althou although gli in several instances as w wo c advised at the time it isas ivas was done under protest and the ther injured parties now have their thein chances gor for redress only in ip a su it at law these cooperative operative co orders it 11 is well weli vf M known were not designed for circulation as money they ware ill lil in many instances issued in favor of certain individuals named ja the body bod y of the order and all to be redeemed in goods manufactured or sold by til the firms that issued them T they hay were not compa combar abie able with th notes issued in in the plage place of money by banking houses in ln the case of the brigham 01 eivy city ty establishment the hands who received them in settlement for labor loor were stockholders in the concern the in institution solution composed of several departments manufacturing a great variety of Orti articles cles cies for ho home homo meuse use found it conven convenio convenient iq 6 to issue these orders whish were rier iier used wed by its own workpeople in exchange for its own goods and were vastly easier easler aas ler len to handle than the goods themselves thus tiju aman working in in the cloth department could much better get a pair of boots boota from rom the shoe department wi with th an order for plo ilo jio 10 than by carrying several yards of cloth an in exchange and so with all ali the different departments of thein the institution stU ution orders in various amounts from five cents up to ten ton dollars We were reissued issued of which the annexed is a sample y rs no s V boo 00 aury OITO me mercantile fean rean tile tite andria and As r kocl aaion ii it i 98 ds if 1 kopd rob VOR DOLLARS P payable aya ble at our ectal t 4 itea trade trado 46 pric prices 3 Q in in an assortment of home manufactures N B good only to stockholders and employees of brigham city W L vvan WATKINS ON R 13 secy e c I 1 y tile tiie the intent of tile the law was surely not to impose a such sueh due dud ills flis as these issued simply for the convenience veni enee ence a among themselves ot 0 a of workpeople lo 10 laborin laboring 0 to produce and manufacture what they need nor for home consumption its oldest as wi a s may be ceen from fro the context was to pl prevent even the circulation d r cula CUIR cu tion of paper having p the functions of money as a ci circulating medi medium urn hi in place of notes issued under the tho authority of the dove dovd government r ament rheme orders rs are not notes for foi circulation cu lation n and indeed are not commercial mer biffl notes at dt all because the they y ard are not redeemable in money and there ther e fore it appears to us that they are diot riot taxable and it is liot hot reasonable to tp think that congress intended on the passage of this lav latr for the protection of touted states notes tor for circulation to hamper and hinder and tax to death institutions established for the promo promotion tion of ibo co opera tive live industry we consider that only by a strained ind lud and iud unnatural interpretation ter terp of f the law can lucli a rt ta tax be imposed on the nonne non nou ne 0 diable non circulating nob non cashable aagha bie ble due lilis tills of our mercantile and ma manufacturing n associations but this is a point of law which can cn only be determined in tile tee courts burts of law and as the brigham city association is resolved to lost test it to tile the utmost extent we wo may expect tile the cause to go up until it reaches the supreme court of the united state states where we trust justice will be obtained at last |
