Excerpt from Mortgage Taxation In Pennsylvania mortgages are uniformly subject to a tax of four mills on the dollar; the proceeds from this source are divided between the state and the counties. Mortgagees in certain enumerated counties of Mary land are required to pay a tax of eight per cent upon the gross amount Of interest covenanted to be paid on mortgages held by them. Idaho and Washington exempt mortgages from tax ation by law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.