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Show APPLE TH TAX OATHMMS. Residents on Irish island Enjoy Immunity Im-munity from Taxation. The difficulty of collecting rates in a number of islands lying off the coast of Donegal, Ireland, was discussed at a recent meeting of the Donegal county council. It was stated that rates had not been paid 'in Tory Island Is-land for the last 20 years, and that within the past few years the islanders island-ers of Gole, Inlsherer, Inlshmalr, Inlshboffln, and others had followed the example of their Tory brethren and developed a conscientious objection objec-tion to rate collectors, it was Impossible Impos-sible to get boatmen to take out collectors col-lectors to servo demand rates or make collections, and even summons servers who bad summonses for the Islanders, Island-ers, were refused a passage. On one occasion tho collector engaged a- boat and succeeded In reaching the first island before his mission was discovered. dis-covered. The boatman then refused to take him back to the mainland, and It was only after much promising and pleading that he was allowed to re-enter the boat. A councilman said that short of catching the Islanders when they came to the mainland and stripping strip-ping their clothes .off them, he did not see how they were to be made to pay. |