Sources of revenue

The revenue of the state is derived from taxes on property, incomes, sales of land, the exercise of privileges, litigation, from fines, forfeitures and escheats, from merchants, from peddlers, and from inheritance taxes, jail fees and interest. Code 1858, § 538; Shan., § 685; mod. Code 1932, § 1081; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 9-201. The revenue of the state is derived from taxes on property, incomes, sales of land, the exercise of privileges, litigation, from fines, forfeitures and escheats, from merchants, from peddlers, and from inheritance taxes, jail fees and interest. Code 1858, § 538; Shan., § 685; mod. Code 1932, § 1081; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 9-201.