Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: ellis island<br/>
Date: Jun 23, 2003 @ 21:48<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-364225528">Acroorca wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; also our other informant said the line ran right thru the middle of<br/>
&gt; the gift shop when he was there some years before you<br/>
&gt; so perhaps they have adjusted the layout &or deliberately placed<br/>
&gt; all the actual cash flow in one state or the other for some reason<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Years ago, I visited an old-fashioned general store called &quot;The Alexander<br/>
Company&quot; at Bethany, LATX.  The building is about two-thirds in Louisiana and<br/>
one-third in Texas.  The owner and I were the only ones there as I bought and<br/>
consumed a soft drink, so I was able to ask questions.  Since his cash register<br/>
was in Texas, I assumed that he did business licensing and sales taxes in Texas;<br/>
but he said that Louisiana required him to have a business license too and to<br/>
pay sales taxes on the goods displayed for sale in Louisiana.  He said that he<br/>
knew which goods were in which state, and he just rang them up on separate keys<br/>
of the cash register.  So, legally, he was running two different businesses and<br/>
keeping two different sets of books.  He also had two wall phones from two phone<br/>
companies about a foot apart with the boundary running invisibly between them.<br/>
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Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>