Excerpt from Report of the Special State Commission Appointed in 1915, on the Subject of Taxation: Submitted to the General Assembly in 1917 In 1895, the Joint Standing Committee on Finance were directed by the General Assembly to recommend such additional taxation as may be required to meet the current expenses of the State. They reported that while these were outrunning the receipts, a judicious economy could readily bring them within it, without loss to the public, there being, they added, hardly a line of State appropriations in which the growth of recent years should not receive some pruning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.