And twenty-five ($25.00) dollars for each conviction. License Tax Collector, 15% of amount collected. Members of National Council, $4.00 per day and 20 cents per mile each way. Clerks of National Council, $4.00 per day and 20 cents per mile each way. . Interpreters of National Council, $4.00 per day and 20 cents per mile each way. Clerks of Committees, $3.00 per day. Clerk of the Supreme Court, $4.00 per day and 20 cents per mile each way. Jurors in criminal cases, $1.00 per day and 20 cents per mile each way. ◄ Jurors in civil cases, $1.00 per day. Witnesses in criminal cases, $1.00 per day and 20 cents per mile each way. Witnesses in civil cases, $1.00 per day. International delegates, $3.00 per day and 10 cents per National delegates, optional with the National Council. National Translator, $3.00 per day during sessions of Caller of the Supreme Court, $2.50 per day and 20 cents per mile each way. Clerks of the District Courts, $3.00 per day. SEC. 245. All standing officers of the Muskogee Nation shall be paid quarterly, and the Principal Chief shall issue warrants to them at the end of each quarter. SECTION 246. All persons who are not citizens by blood of the Muskogee Nation or Seminole Nation, or who have not been adopted by the Muskogee Nation, and whose names do not appear upon the authenticated citizenship rolls of the Muskogee Nation, who shall desire to engage in business in the Muskogee Nation, shall, before doing so, obtain from the United States Government license for that purpose; and all persons so licensed shall pay to the National Tax Collector, for the benefit of the Muskogee Nation, the annual tax hereinafter fixed, the same to be paid quarterly, in advance, on the first day of each quarter, beginning January, April, July and October of each year. All legitimate business houses of whatsoever capacity character, engaged in the sale of all manner of dry goods, provisions, hardware, lumber, drugs or any other article or articles known or designated as merchandise shall pay an annual tax of one-half of 1 per cent. of the first cost of all goods or merchandise introduced into the Nation for trade, to be ascertained by personal inspection by the Tax Collector of the original invoices of purchase. The rate of taxation on all other classes of business shall be as follows: Per Annum On each dealer in hides, peltry, furs, wool, pecans $ 50 00 On hotels affording accommodation for fifty or 150 00 On hotels affording accommodation for forty or more guests........... On hotels affording accommodation for thirty or more guests...... On hotels accommodating twenty or more guests... On each grist and flouring mill....... On each mill and cotton gin combined... On each cotton gin alone...... 75 00 60 00 40 00 24 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 24 00 On each dray or freight wagon or passenger hack, other than those run by livery stables paying tax as such....... 12 00 On each saddlery and harness establishment and boot and shoe shop......... 24 00 On each blacksmith and wagon shop........... 24 00 24 00 On each insurance agent (life or fire)..... 50 00 On each physician or surgeon with certificate from the National Medical Board........ 25 00 On each dentist having diploma...... 25 00 25 00 On each contracting painter, brick or stone mason.. 24 00 On each revolving swing and merry-go-round...... ........ 2.00 25 00 ......... 10 00 5 00 1 00 On each menagerie and circus combined, per day.. SEC. 247. If any person engaged in any of the classes of business enumerated above refuse to pay the tax, he shall be reported to the United States Indian Agent by the Tax Collector for the enforcement of this law. SEC. 248. The Collector shall make a full and detailed report of his office to the National Treasurer within thirty days after the beginning of each quarter. The report shall show from whom and for what accounts taxes have been collected, together with other information necessary for the Council to know. His report shall also be accompanied by the full amount of all taxes collected, less his fees hereinafter specified. SEC. 249. All the expense of making collections, keeping records, and making reports shall be borne by the Tax Collector, in consideration of which he shall be entitled to and shall retain for his personal fee 15% of all monies collected. SEC. 250. The Tax Collector shall have the right to appoint deputies to assist him in making collections; provided, that he shall pay all such deputies out of his per cent as herein above specified. SEC. 251. All classes of business now in operation or which may hereafter be established in this Nation not in |