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...artifacts, such as gold and silver belt buckles, brooches and tie clasps, whose value has not yet been determined. According to the Internal Revenue Service, any find of gold or silver is taxable under personal income. By ancient law, it is considered "treasure-trove," and the finder is taxed to the extent of its current value...
According to most state laws, unidentified lost valuables become the property of the finder unless the actual owner can prove his case within a specified length of time. In a separate category are "misplaced" riches-money or valuables that have been intentionally stashed away and then forgotten. The majority of states have ruled that these belong to the owner of the property on which they are discovered...
...been broadened by modern law to include paper money. An authentic treasure-trove must be buried beneath the earth by a person intending to come back and dig it up-Jean Lafitte, say, or Henry Morgan. If the original owner never reappears, the treasure belongs to the finder even if the cache is unearthed on someone else's property. If the treasure is dug up on federal land, the authorities take...
...Webb, a Washington representative for the Murchison family of Texas, told the committee that in 1961 Baker was responsible for finding a buyer for meat for the Murchison-bankrolled Haitian-American Meat & Provisions Co. (Hampco) of Port-au-Prince. For this, Webb said, Baker earned a ¼?-a-lb. "finder's fee." Later, when a Chicago firm, Packers Provision Co., bought Hampco's output, Baker began receiving a ⅛-a-lb. commission, though he had no part in getting Packers and Hampco together. Packers President William Kentor has said that Hampco "insisted" Baker be paid. Besides getting...
...last week's Business Equipment Show in Manhattan was a pocket-sized executive finder that buzzes when the hapless executive-loitering in the washroom or on his way downstairs for a quick one-is wanted on the phone...