delivered the opinion of the court:
The appellant, David C. Cook, was, during all the time of the transactions herein referred to, a resident of the State of Illinois, residing at Elgin in Kane county. Previous to July 31, 1901, he sold property in the State of California for the sum of $300,000.00 and took a mortgage to secure the sum of $240,000.00. This mortgage, and the notes secured by it, he sold, and, realizing the sum of $214,000.00 as the proceeds of such sale, he brought said sum of $214,000.00 to the State of Illinois in March, 1901, and deposited it in banks in this State. He was required to list said money for assessment on April first, 1901.
The contention of the appellant is, that he should not be assessed upon said sum of money in this State for the year 1901, upon the alleged ground that he was held in the State of California for the tax of the current year upon said money. This contention is based upon section 53 of the Revenue act of 1898. As it appears from the statement of facts, certified to the Auditor by the clerk of the board of review of Kane county, that appellant was a resident of Kane county in this State, and was the owner of this sum of $214,000.00 in money, lying on deposit in Illinois banks on April first, 1901, it is clear that, under sections 7, 8 and 15, and the first clause of section 53 of the Revenue act of 1898, the money was subject to assessment in this State for the year 1901. (Hurd’s Stat. 1899, pp. 1447, 1448, 1456).
Counsel for appellant, however, claims that this sum of money is exempt from assessment in this State under that portion of said section 53 which provides that “the owner of personal property, moving into this State from another State between the first day of April and the first day of June, shall list the property owned by him on the first day of April in such year in the county, town, city, village or district in which he resides: Provided, if such person has been, and can make it appear to the assessor, *40that he is held for tax of the current year on the property in another State, county, town, city, village or district, he shall not be again assessed for said year.”
There are several reasons why the portion of section 53, as thus quoted, can have no application to the state of facts as certified to this court by the Auditor. The . person, referred to in the portiofi. of section 53 above quoted, is “the owner of personal property moving into this State from another State,” etc. The present appellant did not move into the State of Illinois from the State of California, or any other State, between April first and June first, 1901, but he was already at that time and before that time a resident of the State of Illinois. The person, upon whom the burden rests to show that he has been and is held for taxes of the current year on the property in another State, is a person, who has moved into this State from another State between April first and June first, and not a person already residing in this State. The words of the section refer rather to the moving of the owner of the property into the State, and not to the moving of the property into the State. (Johnson v. Lyon, 106 Ill. 64). The property, however, which was brought into the State of Illinois by the appellant in March, 1901, and deposited in Illinois banks, and which belonged to him as a resident of Illinois on April first, 1901, was not a mortgage upon property in California, but was money.
Counsel for appellant refers to the statutes of California, which provide that a mortgage or deed of trust, by which land is pledged for the payment and discharge of a debt, “shall, for the purpose of assessment and taxation, be deemed and treated as an interest in the land so pledged.” Other provisions of the California statutes are referred to, which provide that “the assessor must, between the first Mondays in March and July of each year ascertain the names of all taxable inhabitants, and all property in his county subject to taxation, except such as is required to be assessed by the State Board of Equali*41zation, and must assess such property to the persons by whom it was owned or claimed, or in whose possession or control it was at 12 o’clock M. of the first Monday of March next preceding;” and which also require the assessor to exact a statement under oath from the property owner, in which he must set forth specifically all the real and personal property owned by such person or under his possession or control at 12 o’clock M. on the first Monday of March; and which provide that when any property, except that owned by a railroad or other quasi public corporation, is subject to or affected by a mortgage or deed of trust, contract or other obligation by which a debt is secured, he (the assessor) must enter in the proper column the value of such security and deduct the same. (Code of California, part 3, title 9, secs. 3617, 3628, 3629, 3650).
It is claimed, on the part of appellant, that the mortgage and notes, received upon the sale of the property in California, were deemed and treated in that State as an interest in land, and that, when appellant sold his notes and mortgage, the purchaser was allowed to deduct two per cent for six months of the amount of the notes, which is alleged to have amounted to §2400.00, for the taxes in California on the mortgage for the year 1901.
It does not clearly appear from the certified statement of facts, that the notes and mortgage mentioned were in fact assessed in the State of California for the year 1901, although it is stated that all property in California was subject to taxation, and that the mortgagee’s interest was assessable, whether he resided in the State or not. But, however this may be, the mortgage, received upon the sale of the California property, was not brought into Illinois, but a certain amount of money, to-wit, $214,000.00, which is alleged to have been derived from the sale of said mortgage, was brought into the State of Illinois. There is no statement, nor proof, nor can there be any claim, that the monejq which was *42brought into Illinois, was held for taxation or assessment in the State of California. By the terms of section 53, one, who moves from another State to this State between April first and June first, is taxable on the personal property owned by him on April first; and to be relieved from such taxation, the burden is upon him to make it appear to the assessor, that he is held for the tax of the current year on the property in another State. No such showing is made here. Appellant’s claim is, that he sold a mortgage, and discounted it two per cent for six months for the payment of taxes. But if he did this, without having been assessed or held for the taxes, he would still be liable to be assessed here under section 53 of the statute. If appellant was assessed upon any property in the State of California, it was upon an interest in real estate, and not upon the money here sought ■to be subjected to assessment. The assessment here was not of an interest in real estate, or of a mortgage, but of money owned by a resident of this State, and under his control within this State at the time it was assessed on April first, 1901, and for some time prior thereto. It is not the duty of the assessor or of the board of review to trace back the history of property, which appears in the form of money, to see in what shape it existed before it was reduced to money. It is sufficient that, on April first, it was located in this State, and was of such a character that, under the law, it was taxable. The portion of section 53 relied upon does not apply to a citizen resident in this State and bringing property into this State from a foreign State.
For the reasons above stated, we are of the opinion that the sum of money in question was subject to assessment and taxation in this State, and was properly assessed by the board of review of Kane county.
Order of board approved.