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Taxation

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:

Pendleton County Manuscripts and Account Books

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2332
Overview A collection of account, record, and minute books, as well as ledgers relating to the history of Franklin and Pendleton County, West Virginia. Included are account books belonging to George Hammer (1859-1889); a minute book of the Franklin Water Works (1845-1877); a Pendleton County tax book (1826); and a book of bonds for the administrators and executors of estates from 1802 to 1820. Included are letters to Mary M. Colaw, from relatives in Pendleton County, mainly concerning family news,...
Dates: 1802-1902

Preston County (W. Va.) Court Record Books

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2578
Overview

County court and public records consisting primarily of land and personal property tax books and civil and criminal dockets. There are also a few other record books of the jail, other court proceedings (such as jury, process, and rule books), and a private account book of the Park & McGrew dry goods store.

Dates: 1818-1945

Ralph Fairfax, Collector, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0845
Scope and Contents

A tax book of Monongalia County, 1855, and an estate appraisement of John Fairfax for personal property at the Glades, and Cheat Farm, Monongalia County. The appraisement refers to the sale of eleven enslaved Africans. There are also two lists of delinquent taxpayers; scrip from the Gladesville Furnace, 1877; and a list of the hands at Clinton (Furnace).

Dates: 1844-1877

Records and Manuscript regarding Early History of Aurora, West Virginia

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0906
Scope and Contents

Deed for 800 acres on Foleys Meadows in Monongalia County, to Thomas James Goff, June 25 1787; tax receipts of 1829 and 1843 for Thomas and James S. Watson; a bill of goods of Stephens, Miller & Co., Baltimore, 3 May 1865, to Messrs. Wotring Co., Aurora, W.Va.; a manuscript plat for unidentified land.

Dates: 1787-1865

Robert D. Baldwin (1891-1982) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1587
Overview

Correspondence, reports, and other papers of a professor of educational administration and coordinator of field services, West Virginia University. Subjects include the county unit system, the election of superintendents of schools, legislative committee of the West Virginia State Education Association, the Thomas-Hall Education Bill, school taxation, and the State High School Principals Association. Correspondents include Charles E. Hodges, Chapman Revercomb, and Melvin C. Snyder.

Dates: 1928-1961

Ruggles & Woodbridge Co. Account and Minute Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2694
Overview An account book of Ruggles Woodbridge & Co., a New England land company with lands in Randolph Co., Virginia, covering the period 1799 to 1831. The volume includes a constitution for the company, dated 4 January 1799, minutes of meetings of the proprietors of the company, which include accounts of land sales of the company and other business matters; an 1811 report by Daniel Stebbins and Jeriel Preston of their inspection trip of the company's lands in which they refer to the settlers as...
Dates: 1799-1831

Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0873
Overview Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative...
Dates: 1840-2003; Majority of material found within 1918-1955

S. George Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2799
Overview

Includes appraisals, tax records, employee earning records, account books, and labor records, of the S. George Company, paper sack manufacturers, of Wellsburg, West Virginia. See contents list in control folder. See also paper sacks in A&M 4206, and A&M 3868, Printmaker Clifford Harvey's Mill Sack Advertising Art from the S. George Company.

Dates: ca. 1900-1975

Schools, Berkeley County Board of Education, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1404
Overview

Records of the Arden District, 1916-1930; Gerrardstown District, 1877-1925; the Hedgesville District, 1866-1927; Martinsburg District, 1908-1918; Mill Creek District, 1921-1935; and the county superintendent, 1893-1911. Subjects covered include: tax assessments, attendance applications, teacher appointments, apportionment of funds, and school levies.

Dates: 1866-1935

Schools, Hardy County Board of Education, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1405
Overview

Record books of the Capon District, 1911-1921; Lost River District, 1880-1907; Moorefield District, 1866-1925; the South Fork District, 1873-1926; and the County Financial Secretary's Record Book, 1919-1933. Subjects covered include: salaries and outlays paid, subscription and tax levy rates and the estimates of the teachers and building funds.

Dates: 1866-1933