Tax Collector Pays the Tax?

Farmers & Mechanics National Bank of Georgetown $131.00 check to E. G. Davis, the Washington, D. C. Collector of Taxes.  The tax collector canceled the stamp.

COLLECTOR OF TAXES

MAY

23

1900

D.C.

It can't be confirmed that the tax collector paid the 2 cent tax on the check, but we do know that the tax collector canceled the 2 cent federal tax stamp.