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THE STORE FOR STYLE, SERVICE AND SAVING.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
GEORGE WAS ALSO A
VERY ABLE LIAR
Jwelve Good Men Found
Him a Tax Dodger.
BACK IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA DAYS
Old Court Records Show That The
Father of This Country Was Also
The father of the Innumerable
Host Who Make False For
Taxation.
WASHINGTON. October s.—Docu
mentary evidence has been discovered
in Fairfax County, Va., to prove that
George Washington was not always
regarded by his neighbors as a model
of veracity. At the May term of the
Fairfax County Court in 1760 he was
publicly presented by the Grand Jury
for swearing to a false list of his tax
able property.
In other words 12 citizens of his
home county officially branded him
as a liar and a tax-dodger.
The discovery of this record was
made by Captain S. R. Donahue, edi
tor of the Fairfax Herald. While
seeking data for a history of the
county, which he is engaged in writ
ing, Capt. Donahue had occasion to
examine the ancient records of the
court, and there he unearthed, a day
or two ago, startling proof of the fact
than in 1760 criminal proceedings
were instituted against Washington
for not entering his property*for tax
ation agreeably to law, an offense
which involved the making of a false
oath.
On page 403 a volume entitled “Li
ber A.,’’ the minute book of the court,
Captain Donahue found the report of
the Grand Jury of Fairfax count}',
Colony of Virginia, rendered to the
Court on May 2, 17C0, and in it, in
company xvith presentments for thiev
ery and indictments for landing Qua
kers, was the following:
“We present George William Fair
fax, George Washington, John Carlyle,
Daniel French, Robert Bogges, Cates-
by Cocke, Townsend Dade, Sybil 1
West, Garrard Alexander, Jemima
Minor, William Ramsey, Benjamin
Grayson, George Mason, John Plum
mer, Daniel McCarty and Abraham
Barnes for (not) entering their wheel
ed carriages agreeably to law, as
appears to us by the list delivered to
the Clerk of the County.”
The word “present” as used in
this report carried in those days only
a slightly different meaning from that
of the word “indict" a difference large
ly technical.
“The old law's of the Colony of
Virginia,” today said Walter T. Oli
ver, of the Virginia Legislature and a
prominent lawyer of Fairfax “provided
for criminal proceedings in two
ways; by indictment or presentment.
In case of indictment the King’s
counsel initiated the prosecution,
bringing the facts before the Grand
Jury, w'ho then reported an indict
ment to the court, in case of present
ment, however, the Grand Jurors pro
ceeded on their ow'n initiative with
out the assistance or intervention of
the counsel.
They sumoned witnesses and, if to
the minds of the tw'elve, the facts
showed the suspected person guilty
of a crime, the case was “presented”
to the Court, whereupon proper writs
of apprehension w r ere issued for the
accused and the King’s counsel or
dered to prosecute the case. So that,
so far as the legal significance of
the w T ord means a grave criminal
charge of an authorized jury, ‘present’
has, in this instance, the same force
as ‘indict.’ ”
“Further,” said Mr. Oliver, “that
an owner’s a failure to ‘enter’ any
property should have been dealt with
as a crime rests upon the meaning of
the word ‘enter’ in Ihe formal pres
entment. Under Colonial law as
owner, unless he was willing to per
mit the county official to make a
schedule of his taxable property, made
out a list of it himself. To protect
the public revenues against fraud,
the law provided that, subjoined to
the list of property, should be the
following oath, taken by the ow'ner:
“ ‘I, , do solemnly sw r ear that
the property entered in the foregoing
list is all, both real and personal,
subject, to taxation of which I am
seized and possessed in the county
of , in the Colony of Virginia.’
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1907.
“This oath was duly made and at
tested before an authorized official.
The offense of swearing’ fasely to a
property list, while really perjury,
w r as made a separate offense by act
of the House of Burgesses. Thus it
was that Washington w T as criminally
charged, not with perjury, but with
not ‘entering’ certain property.”
In short, the greatest of Americans
was believed on judicial inquiry and
examination by 12 substantial men
of his county, to be guilty of what is
today termed “tax-dodging.”
Yet he w'as in good company. The
William Fairfax presented with him
was a nephew' of the great Lord Fair
fax, w'hose possessions would have
easily blanketed half a dozen German
principalities; and the George Mason
caught in this judicial drag net was
afterward the author of the celebra
ted Bill of Rights and the bosom friend
of Thomas Jefferson.
Hard Times in Kansas.
The old days of grasshoppers and
drouth are almost forgotten in the
prosperous Kansas of today; although
a citizen of Codell, Earl Shamburg,
has not yet forgotten a hard time he
encountered. He says: “I was worn
out and discouraged by coughing night
and day, and could find no relief till
I tried Dr. King’s New Discovery.
It took less than one bottle to com
pletely cure me.” (The safest and
most reliable cough and cold cure and
lung and throat healer ever discover
ed. Guaranteed by Eldridge Drug
Co. lmo.
Be sure and call at our store one
day this week. Sheffleld-Huntington
Co.
Let Us Fit Your Children in
SCHOOL SHOES and HOSIERY
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-Our Stock is Complete. ——
Phone 218 DANIEL’S SHOE STORE.
MILLIONS 0E ACRES TO
BE GIVEN TO SETTLERS
Uncle Sam To Distribute
Lands.
ALLOfMENT TO BEGIN TOMORROW
When Large Areas of Grazing Lands
in South Dakota—Other Large
Tracks to Be Opened at
Later Date.
WASHINGTON, October s.—(Spec
ial) —Beginning Monday and contin
uing through the week, registration
will take place at the government
land office in Pierre, S. D., for public
lands in the Ixtwer Brule Indian re
servation, containing 56,560 acres of
farming and grazing lands in South
Dakota. The distribution will take
place by lottery, and entries will he
made October 20 and December 20.
Each applicant is required to appear
at the Pierre land office in person and
make affidavit that he is entitled to
take public land under the provisions
of the homestead law.
Those successful in drawing a
farm must pay the government the
apprised value of the land, in annual
installments. The value is placed at
from $1.25 to $4 an acre.
This is the first reservation of a
total of nearly 5,000,000 acres of
government lands to be opened to
settlement during the coming year.
This great acreage is divided between
the states of South Dakota, Idaho,
Montana and Washington, and will
provide homesteads for nearly 35,-
000 settlers. All of the tracts will
be opened by the lottery system.
In addition to the Lower Brule
opened today, the reservations, with
their acreage include the follow
ing:
Yakima, Washington, 1,145,000
acres; Colville, Washington, 1,000,000
acres; Flathead, Montana, 1,000,000
acres, Blackfeet, Idaho, 500,000 acres;
Cour d’ Alona, Idaho, 310,000 acres;
Lomhi, Idaho, 64,000 acres, and Rose
bud, South Dakota, 835,000 acres.
All of those lands will be divided
into tracts, except in the irrigation
districts, where the homesteads will
be limited to 40 acres each. The
largest reservation, at Yakima, Wash
ington, consisting of 1,145,000 acres,
wil be disposed of under the hontes
ted, mineral and irrigation acts.
About 100,000 acres will he included
in the irrigation project now being
constructed by the government, and
this will he disposed of in 40 acre
plats. The settlers may pay the
government the amount of money ex
pended in building the irrigation
plant, although the payments will he
spread over a period of ten years.
This will make the land cost the home
seekers about S3O an acre.
The irrigated lands are used chief
ly for sugar heet and alfalfa culture,
and are likely to be immensely pro
fitable at the price charged. Several
months more will be required td
complete the Indian allotment work
in the big Rosebud reservation in
South Dakota.
HUNDREDS TURNED
FROM COLLEGE
Tech is Crowded Beyond Its
Capacity.
ATLANTA, Oct. s.—(Special)—Lack
of dormitory room has caused the
Georgia School of Technology to
turn more than 100 students away
from its doors. Effoi'ts will be made
at the next session of the legislature
to remedy the present cramped dor
mitory provisions so that no student
in the State may be deprived of the
privilege of attending this excellent
institution, whose graduates are eag
erly sought by manufacturing and
engineering concerns all over the
country.
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