Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . ne30, 1914, a total tax was collected from all sources amounting to$12,271,, this being about one and a half million over that of theyear preceding. In addition to this Mr. Bryant added many thou-sands to the revenue of the city by inaugurating a successful cam-paign of license collections from many apartment houses, placesof amusement, public dances and other sources which had previouslynot paid such a tax. As an instance, he collected license fees fromseveral large slaughter houses which had been delinquent for severalyears while the matter
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . ne30, 1914, a total tax was collected from all sources amounting to$12,271,, this being about one and a half million over that of theyear preceding. In addition to this Mr. Bryant added many thou-sands to the revenue of the city by inaugurating a successful cam-paign of license collections from many apartment houses, placesof amusement, public dances and other sources which had previouslynot paid such a tax. As an instance, he collected license fees fromseveral large slaughter houses which had been delinquent for severalyears while the matter was in litigation. Mr. Bryant secured an opinionfrom the City Attorney under which he was able to force immediatepayment. His record as Tax Collector has been conspicuous foreconomical administration and a decided increase of revenue to thecity. The motor equipment of the Municipal Railway cars enables themto outstrip those of a private corporation by three minutes in the tripfrom Market street to the Clif¥ House. Tax Collectors Office 171. THOS. F. FINNChief Deputy Tax Collector HOMAS F. FIXX. Chief Dep-uty Tax Collector, prominentfor years in public afifairs of city andState, was born in San FranciscoXovember 23, 1873, the son of Tames T T. and Ellen Kellv Fii H e re-ceived his education in the publicand parochial schools and after at-taining- prominence in union laboraffairs entered upon his long careerin the public service. He was elected to the Assemblyfrom the Twenty-ninth AssemblyDistrict in 1902, on the Union Laborticket. He served as Under-Sheriffon the staff of Thos. OXeil, and onX^ovember 2, 1909, was elected Sher-iff on the Union Labor he had been elected, X^o-vember 3, 1908, State Senator fromthe Seventeenth Senatorial District, ana returned to that ofifice at thesucceeding election. He has also rendered distinctive service as amember of the Board of Supervisors, president of the Fire Commis-sion, and as a member of the Board of Police Commissione
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