Manchester, 50 No.

All neat cattle

No Assessor's judg
Owner's valu.
rule. ment, or lack of same. are valued at the ation, Assessors
same price for the increasing as
same age. Horses sessment if in
from $20 to $100 their judgment
each.
it should be.

A

B

ན

A

No

There are three As

Value of stocks By personal
rule. sessors chosen from and bonds taken inspection and
different parts of the from market re-oath of owner.
town who are support. Uniform
posed to be famliar value for neat cat-
with values in their tle, $25 for cows,
neighborhoods, and $20 for two-year-
they also are influ-olds, $15 for year-
enced by testimony lings. Horses
given before Board sworn valuation.i
of Relief.
Very little other.
above exemption.]

Poll Tax Collected.
What Per Cent. of

Buildings?
Separately from
Is Land Valued

None.

No.

Yes.

$250.00

No.

100

or not at all.

Occa- In the same

sionally manner as that Cent.

of other

prop

erty. For many
years the Board

has been blessed

with a farmer as
a member.

No

Judgment of Assess- Depend largely By inventory rule.ors and personal in- on the testimony of owner when spection; information and word of those obtainable, by gained from reliable handing in lists. inspection and judges and sources, sales of adjoining property, and values determined on amt. of

a kind of "jump at it" process.

If improvements One, 2 and 3-year- Owner's valuhave been made prop-old creatures are ation. erty is listed higher. taxed at a stated|

If depreciated value amount per head;

is shown the amount cows, horses and
is made lower.

Governed by recent

all other personal
property is taxed
in same propor-
tion as realestate.

rule. sales of property in owners.
immediate vicinity.

By comparison with

rule. o 1d lists, adding to
new assessment for

improvements made
and deducting for de-
preciation.

judgment.

Owner's inventory.

Owner's state

Owner's state

Guessed at

No Assessor's judgment, None, except to
rule. tempered by politics, nose around for a and Board of
and intimidated by bicycle or a new Relief is de-
the rich corporations. horse. Houses are pended upon
If a house is built never entered nor to rectify er-
they snap on to it, lists of owners de-rors. The
and the Board of Re-manded.
lief lets it down.
"The poor are closely
watched that none of

their savings escape."

manufacturers take care of that.

ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY.