. Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs. Legislature, but Assemblyman Perkins wasdetermined and it was finally sent to Gov. Stokess hand and approved. Prior to the enactment of the law, the State had been receiving some-where between $900,000 and $950,000 a year from the companies. Their an-nual tax bills had been showing a slightly rising scale each year over theyear before. In 1906 the States total receipts from them were approach-ing the million-dollar ma
. Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs. Legislature, but Assemblyman Perkins wasdetermined and it was finally sent to Gov. Stokess hand and approved. Prior to the enactment of the law, the State had been receiving some-where between $900,000 and $950,000 a year from the companies. Their an-nual tax bills had been showing a slightly rising scale each year over theyear before. In 1906 the States total receipts from them were approach-ing the million-dollar mark. But, the first year the Perkins law becameoperative, the States railroad receipts sprang to $3,502,868, and in 1914, thelast year for which the State Comptrollers report is at hand, they hadclimbed to $4,529,852. In the eight years ending iii 1914, the State mighthave received, under the old law, a total of $8,000,000 from the new law brought her, instead, in that eight years, between .$31,000,000and $32,000,000. The second act—that concerning the laying of the assessments—gavean upward spring, like that in the states railroad income, to the railroad. 396 Phelps tax receipts of the localities. The highest total of the local taxing districtsreceipts under the old system had been $655,000. The first year of the newlaw they gathered in $l,13o,000 from the railroads for local uses, and in1914 their receipts lacked only $48,000 of the $2,000,000 mark. Mr. Perkins read law in the office of Judge John A. Blair, was admittedto the. practice as an attorney in 1903 and as a counselor in 1906. Heopened a law ofiice in Jersey City where he has since been engaged in thepractice of his profession. Mr. Perkins public career began when the citizens of Westfield madehim Mayor of the town. He was then only thirty-two years of age; andtwo years later he was sent to the legislature as one of the representativesof Union County in the House of Assembly. At the session of 1907 h
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