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Show OWNERS MUST PAY Expensive to Operate Automo-' Automo-' biles After First of July ossessing an automobile after af-ter July 1 will mean something more than meeting a gasoline bill- The owners will be com pelled to carry a goodsized fortune for-tune up to the treasurer's office of-fice in the capitol, and every six months thereafter tiiey wjl be forced to repeat the ordeal, I The yearly assessment to be paid is estimated at about $10,-: $10,-: 000. The measure requires that jail motorcycles and automobiles ! shall get new registration num-j jbers each year, the plates to be ! furnished by the secretary of J state, and the tax ranges from, !$0 a vear for motorcycles to $20 for heavy motor trucks- In gen-' er;jl the tax schedule is as fol-, lo,v.v: Motorcycles, S3; electric j pleasure cars, $5; motor trucks: up to one ton capacity, $-5; one to three tons, $10 ; three to five tons, .$15; over five tons, $20; for every other motor vehicle not over twenty-five horsepower, S10; over forty horsepower, .$15; commercial motor vehicles used for hauling passengers exclusively exclu-sively .$10. The bill provides that in determining horsepower the rating on the American Association Associa-tion of Licensed Automobiles Manufacturers shall be used. Under Un-der its provisions it will become effective July 1, 1915. and one-haf one-haf the annual tax will be payable pay-able at that time for the remainder re-mainder of 1915. Numbers furnished furn-ished by the secretary of state must be used front and rear- |
