Report of the Commission on Revenue and Taxation, 1910 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Report of the Commission on Revenue and Taxation, 1910 This commission as originally constituted was created by an act of the legislature of the State of California, entitled: An act authorizing the governor to appoint an expert in taxation and public finance, to sit as a member of a commission to be composed of himself and a general committee of the senate and assembly of the thirty-sixth session of the legislature of the State of California, of which commission the governor shall be ex officio a member and chairman, to investigate the system of revenue and taxation in force in this state, and to recommend a plan for the revision and reform thereof; to provide for the creation of said commission, and to define its powers, and making an appropriation therefor. The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. If and when the senate and assembly of the thirty-sixth session of the legislature of the State of California shall provide for the appointment, and there shall be appointed pursuant to said provision, a joint committee of said senate and assembly to investigate the system of revenue and taxation in force in this state, and to recommend a plan for the revision and reform thereof, the governor is authorized to appoint an expert in taxation and public finance, to sit with said committee, and with said committee to constitute a commission upon the revision and reform of the system of revenue and taxation in force in this state. The governor shall be ex officio a member of said commission and shall be chairman thereof. Sec. 2. Said expert shall hold his office at the pleasure of the governor. Sec. 3. The compensation of said expert shall be fixed by the said commission in an amount not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars per month. Sec. 4. Said commission is authorized and empowered to do any and all things necessary to make a full and complete investigation of the matters and things hereinabove enumerated, and to that end to employ all necessary clerical and expert assistance, and that said commission be and it hereby is authorized and empowered to send for persons and papers, and to take all necessary means to procure the attendance of witnesses and testimony; and the members of said commission are, and each of them is, hereby authorized to administer oaths; and that all the provisions of article eight, of chapter two, title one, part three of the Political Code of this state, relative to the "attendance and examination of witnesses before the legislature and committees thereof," shall apply to the commission; and that the sergeant-at-arms of either the senate or the assembly is hereby authorized and directed to serve [any] and all subpoenas and orders or other process that may be issued by the chairman of said commission, when directed to do so by the said chairman. Sec. 5. The members of said commission, other than the chairman and the member appointed by the governor, shall be paid the sum of ten dollars ($10.) per diem and their necessary expenses, while actually engaged in the performance of their duties as prescribed in this act. Sec. 6. There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purposes of this act. Sec. 7. This act shall take effect immediately. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com