Series 321: Privilege Tax Ledgers. 1878-1924. Auditor (RG 29)

Twelve bound ledgers with total balances for privilege taxes collected by county tax collectors. Each ledger lists the county, tax collectors’ name, accounting balances for taxes collected, and a tally sheet of the type of privilege being taxed. The businesses taxed include: express company, telegraph company, insurance company, sleeping car company, insurance agents, billiard tables, ten-pin alleys, trading boats, wharf boats, hotels, restaurants, circuses, exhibition halls, merchants, auctioneers, peddlers, cotton brokers, cotton weighers, coal yards, breweries, drug stores, pawn brokers, street brokers, lawyers, commission merchants, dentists, gas companies, toll bridges, steam ferries, liquor dealers, soda fountains, cotton compress, sewing machine agents, photograph galleries, livery stables, horse traders, real estate agents, banks, stage lines, street cars, and trading cars.