Comptroller's Office tax collectors' accounts 1863-1866, 1874-1912, 1916-1920, 1937-1939

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Comptroller's Office tax collectors' accounts 1863-1866, 1874-1912, 1916-1920, 1937-1939

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The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts is the central accounting officer or chief fiscal officer of the state, and as such is responsible for maintaining effective methods for accounting for the state's funds; he or she is the state's principal tax administrator and collector of tax revenue. These records document the accounting by county tax collectors to the Comptroller's Office of a mixture of taxes (ad valorem taxes, poll taxes, occupation taxes, railroad subsidy taxes, etc.). (Those records documenting strictly ad valorem taxes, or strictly taxes other than ad valorem, are described in separate inventories.) Types of documents include fiscal and financial statements, quarterly returns of taxes collected, forms, receipt books, a journal, etc., dating 1863-1866, 1874-1912, 1916-1920, and 1937-1939.

8.09 cubic ft. (82 volumes)

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Texas. Comptroller's Office

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The Office of Comptroller of Public Accounts was initially created by the General Council of the Provisional Government of Texas on December 29, 1835, elected by the General Council and commissioned by the Governor, for the purpose of examining and approving or rejecting any claims presented to him by the Auditor (also created by this ordinance). The Comptroller first appeared as a constitutional officer in the first state Constitution of Texas (1845), elected for a two-...