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Tennessee State Library and Archives DEPARTMENT of FINANCE AND State of Tennessee Department of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312 DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND TAXATION RECORDS, 1827-1959 RECORD GROUP 119 Processed by: Greg Yates Archives and Manuscripts Unit Technical Services Section Date Completed: November 9, 1989 (AVAILABLE ON MICROFILM) Addition processed by Susan Gordon Archival Collections Services Date Completed: November 2019 (NOT AVAILABLE ON MICROFILM) 1 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE Consists of Department of Finance and Taxation records for the periods 1827-1862, 1923-1959, and 1833-1948. The various time spans reflect the multiple accruals that make up this record group. The earliest accrual (1827-1862) consists of Revenue Reports. The next accrual (1923-1959) consists of conferences, correspondence, financial records, and reports. Most of the correspondence originated with the Commissioner’s office, but some correspondence to and from the separate divisions appears as well. The 2019 addition (Boxes 191-194) consists of original correspondence, contracts, land transactions, audits, real estate documents, reciprocal agreements, original court records, and Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) trooper logs. Note that Finance and Taxation usually filed documents in descending order, so that the oldest are at the bottom of the stack. The addition spans 1833-1948. These records have not been microfilmed. Colorful corporate letterheads adorn much of the correspondence, including that of the Tennessee Brewing Company (Box 191, folder 27). Among other business, it inquired in 1941 about supplying beer to the U.S. Marine Hospital in Memphis. Likérocentra of Prague wrote in 1938 about its plan to “introduce our amazing Czechoslovakian Alcoholic Beverage in the State of Tennessee.” Around the same time, Concannon Vineyard of California sought permission to send a form letter and price list to Tennessee’s Catholic clergy as enticement to consider Concannon for sacramental wines. In a following letter, the Archbishop of San Francisco endorsed the vineyard (Box 191, folder 18). Downie Bro’s Big 3 Ring Circus wrote to Commissioner Charles McCabe on its lively stationery and included a season ticket (Box 191, folder 20). During World War II, Associated Brewers of the Fifth Region, Inc., asked if it was “permissible to ship direct to army camps in Tennessee using plain crowns… eliminating the necessity of their purchasing your tax- paid crowns” (Box 191, folder 19). Other correspondence includes odd or amusing details; for example, Ira Parker, Jr.’s postwar letter about his delinquent 1943 and 1944 state excise tax. He explained that during those years he was indisposed: My friends and neighbors, in accordance with established procedure, summoned me to defend the bastions in a somewhat futile effort to make the world safe for Democracy. Accordingly, my returns for the years 1943 and 1944 were not filed on time, being in the Army and finding it most difficult to stretch a Corporal’s pay far enough to include both Uncle Sam and the State of Tennessee - not to speak of the Candle Stick Maker. Parker’s April 26, 1948, letter resides in the file labeled General ̶ Income Tax (Box 191, folder 34). 2 Historian-beer enthusiasts may take interest in a letter the Memphis law firm McDonald & McDonald, wrote on behalf of the Tennessee Brewing Company, February 25, 1947, providing a “brief analysis…concerning the manufacture of beer.” The attorneys stated that the two breweries in the state paid $1.70 per barrel tax to the department based on government readings of beer gas or liquid beer. The lawyers disputed the tax amount, arguing that it was computed somewhere in the middle of the bottling process (Box 191, folder 1). Highway patrolmen recorded their daily activities on a standardized form containing patrolman’s name, duty (usually the stretch of road he patrolled), arrests, taxes collected, odometer reading, motor mileage, meal cost, and duty hours. This batch of THP records includes only surnames beginning with A-H (Box 192). The entirety of Box 193 consists of Commissioner Charles M. McCabe’s incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1929-1931. Letters address the broad array of taxes Tennessee levied on income, franchises, motor oil, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, gasoline, motor vehicles, toll bridges, outdoor advertising, volatile materials, and more. Scattered Tennessee Highway Patrol reports appear. Recommendations for bridge toll collectors comprise Box 194. One applicant for chief collector at Loudon, “a lifelong party member,” persisted in writing Charles McCabe for quite some while after the commissioner appointed someone else. New jobs were scarce during the Depression, and good recommendations helped. So did political party affiliation- -as reflected in some of these letters. Many such references accompany the applications. Cordell Hull and Senators Kenneth McKellar and William Emerson Brock endorsed toll taker applicants. The spoils system thrived. Note that the folder labeled “Correspondence -- Loudon Bridge, No. 1, Operation (Empty)” in Box 194, folder 20, is empty. The Department of Finance and Administration delivered it without any contents. Four oversize volumes record minutes, inheritance taxes, and internal improvements bonds. Two state Board of Equalization minute books assess the value of certain properties: railroads, telephone and telegraph companies, and street railways for the period 1901-1916. A third volume registers inheritance taxes for 1924-1930. The fourth, bond records, date to 1833, though the book itself is not that old. According to these records, Finance and Taxation considered the State Capitol as an internal improvement. The Tennessee Department of Finance and Taxation appears to have been a combination forerunner of today’s Department of Finance and Administration, Department of Revenue, and Public Utility Commission. In part to collect revenue, Governor Henry Horton signed the law creating the Tennessee Highway Patrol on December 14, 1929. It replaced the unpopular Tennessee State Police Force, organized in 1926 and patterned after the Texas Rangers to obtain fees and taxes from citizens. 3 INDEX Series Number Series Title Box Number 1 Conferences and Conventions 1-2 2 Correspondence Sub-series: A. Accounts and Budgets Division 3-6 B. Assistant Commissioner’s Office 1. General 7-9 2. Real Estate 10-55 C. Auditing Division 56 D. Commissioner’s Office 1. Attorney General 57-59 2. County Court Clerks 60-65 3. General 66-105 4. Other State Departments and Finance and Taxation Divisions 106-118 5. Tax Assessments 119 E. Excise Tax Division 120-124 F. Gas Tax Division 125 G. Highway Patrol Division 126 H. Income Tax Division 127-132 I. Inheritance Tax Division 133 J. Motor Vehicle Division 134 K. Purchasing Division 135 L. Sales Tax Division 136 M. Taxation Division 1. County Court Clerks 137-144 2. General 145-154 3. Other State Departments and Finance and Taxation Divisions 155 3 Financial Records Sub-series: A. Department of Accounts 156 B. Accounts and Budgets Division 157-158 C. Beer Tax Division 159-160 D. Commissioner’s Office 1. Invoices, Journals, Vouchers 161-166 2. Refund Claims 167-168 3. Revenue Collections 169-174 E. Inheritance Tax 175 F. Title Division 1. Expendable Receipts 176-177 2. Invoices 178-180 3. Payroll 181-183 4 4 Reports Sub-series: A. Commissioner’s Office 1. Building and Loan Associations 184 2. Divisional 185-186 B. Excise Tax Division 187-188 C. Traffic Accident Reports 189-190 5 Addition 191-194; OV-1 5 CONTAINER LIST Series Number: 1 Sub-Series Number: Series Title: Conferences and Conventions Microfilm Roll # 1 Box 1 1 National Association of Tax Administrators 1949 2 National Association of Tax Administrators 1950 3 National Association of Tax Administrators, Chattanooga Convention Arrivals 1950 4 National Association of Tax Administrators, Chattanooga Convention Attendance 1950 5 National Association of Tax Administrators, Chattanooga Convention general Correspondence 1950 6 National Association of Tax Administrators, Chattanooga Convention Reservations 1950 7 National Association of Tax Administrators 1951 8 National Association of Tax Administrators 1952 Box 2 1 Conferences 1935-1936 2 Conventions 1948-1949 3 Conventions 1950, 1952 4 Federation of Tax Administration 1945-1949 5 Governor’s Conference 1951 6 National Tax Association 1928 7 National Tax Association 1931 8 Sales Tax Conference 1947-1948 Series Number: 2 Sub-Series Number: A Series Title: Correspondence Box 3 1 Department of Highways and Public Works 1924 2 Inheritance Tax Matters 1923 Box 4 1 Attorney General 1927 2 Governor’s Office 1927 3 Hamilton County Court Clerk 1926 4 Department of Highways and Public Works 1925-1926 5 State Comptroller 1927 6 6 Virginia Budget Director 1927 Box 5 1 Governor’s Office 1928-1930 2 Department of Highways and Public Works 1928 3 Revenue Estimates 1928 4 Taxation Division 1929-1930 Box 6 1 Highway Patrol Division 1932 2 Volatile Substance Fees 1930-1931 Series Number: 2 Sub-Series Number: B1 Series Title: Correspondence Box 7 1 Arkansas Department of Revenue 1940 2 “C” General 1933-1942 3 Chain Store Tax 1939-1948 4 Commissioner’s Office 1952 5 Confiscations 1937-1938 6 “D” General 1939 7 Distilled Spirits Institute 1949 8 Escheat Law 1939-1941 9 “F” General 1939 10 Federal Land Bank 1939-1942 11 “G” General 1939-1942 12 Gasoline – Industrial Users 1939-1940 13 Gift Tax 1939 14 Gross Receipts Tax 1938-1947 15 “H” General 1941 16 Henry Hollingsworth 1939 17 Inheritance Tax 1937-1946 18 “L” General 1939 Box 8 1 “M” General 1937-1942 2 Memphis Tobacco Company 1937-1940 3 Mooney vs. State 1939 4 Motor Vehicles 1938-1941 Microfilm Roll # 2 5 Motor Vehicles – Certificate of Title Law 1939 6 Motor Vehicles – Gibson County Case 1939 7 “N” General 1939, 1944 7 Box 9 1 Outdoor Advertising Signs 1939 2 “P” General 1939-1942 3 Privilege Tax 1938-1939 4 Privilege Tax 1940 5 Privilege Tax 1941 6 Privilege Tax Litigation – State vs.
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