Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-03-16

ment 10 all the other towns, there can be
no doubt Of the perfect fairness, and propri-
ely Of the result. II, however, the sample
tU5Bn in any county Of the state, should be
appraised BY The General Committee, too
high Or too low, ali the other towns in the
same county, will also be either two high,
ortoo low, whether any thing Of this kind
has happened. on the present occasion, the
public will Judge -Itis not intended 10 Of
fer any opinion on this particular 2oint--hut
rs this . stem of taxation, IS intended by
tie constitution 20 form The basis OF the rep
resent alton IN the Seh4le, IL mag not De o.
miss to observe, that il presents powerful
temptation 10 men of strong political feel
ings 10 shape the system conforma5ly to
their particular views.
On the 31st~of December the several 10.
cal committees had so far progressed in
The business assigned them, as to be able to
lay their reports on tn Chairman's table.
Their reports exhibited the appraise menr
and amount IF taxable property in each town
and ~ cOurse TING aggreg ate Of each county.
An objection was made 10 the acceptance
Of the report of the local Committee Of Suf.
folk by Col. FISHER, Of Peterborough, on the
grO,nd that The town If Boston had not been
doomed enough. Notwithstanding these
objections the report was accepted, but
Col. Fisher then gave notice hc should on
The next day move a reconsideration ct the
vote The motto n to reconsider was accor-
dinghy made the next Gay, and while this
question was under debate Marx L. Hill,
Esq. of Georgetown, objected to tie recon.
sideration, first on the ground that if the
town of Boston had not been doomed enough
in personal property II already stood high
enough in real estate-and that the COM
mittee had no time 70 spare 10 investigate
the subject, as the Legislature would be
together in very few days Hon. Mr.
Tmt'e, of Middlesex, also opposed the re-
consideration Il was attempted 10 be
shown by Mir CROSBY, Of Augusta, that the
first objection made BY Mr.. HUI was
groundiess that The ,eGi estate in Boston,
including buildings, such as houses, shops,
ware houses, &c. had not been appraised
at SO much by the general cOmmittee, IS
The land alone, on which the buildings STOOD,
was worth at so cents the single foot, by
about Three Millions of Dollars ! and as 10
there not being time enough 20 finish the
whole business, before the Legislature
should the business Of the committee be
Protracted BY the enquiry, NJ injury would
arise, as there was no absolute necessity
for the valuation committee to make report
the very first day of the setting of the Gen
ersl Court, Il was stated by the gentleman
from Augusta that he was by no means sat-
ished with that part OF the report Of the
local committee Of Suffolk which related 20
the town Of Boston. That the assessors Of
that town had made no Ietu. Oh any tor.
mer occasion, or on the present. That the
damage on former occasions had been 70
submit the return of the assessors, such as il
was, of Boston, 10 a scSect comnttee from
ditfereRt parts Of the state. That the same
gentlemen, representing the county Of Suf-
folk, all Of them belonged 70 Boston and
It could not be supposed they would be re-
markabiy solicitous, to hunt up, for purpose
oftaxation, the property of their own town
That as the town of Boston stood in The
report it was unequal, compared with other
towns. That the assessors of the little town
OF New Bedford had act4ally returned about
one million of dollars and Nantucket, one
and an half millions dollars Of personal prop
erty; and although The assessors Of Boston
deRce of the amount Of personal property,
yet, that they had not left the committee
entirely in the dark. The assessors Of Bos-
ton had stated in their return, 1157 shops,
% distiu houses, 647 warehouses, rope
walks, furnace, 40 bake houses-that by
means of these data an opinion might be
formed Of the amount Of stock in trade EN-.
ployed. That the committee were well &C
qualnted with the scale of business in B0s-
ton, and they could Judge whether IL would
no, be within bounds 10 estimate the stock
il trade as follows-viz.
ll57 ,efai. shops, az s 1000 each, 2,314,O0O
Z ! 2,,.lr E As.c:' al 10000 each
100000
677 Wholesale Warehouses at Il, 900 each
1924. 600
20 wholesale importers IF En-,
glish Goods at 50, 900 each $500 900
Rope Walks al Is, 900 each los 900
! Furnace al 5000
40 Bake Houses az 1000 each ~, 900
SIS, 94S, 900
1t was also stated that the other items on
which the Assess ITS Of Boston had made no
returns might fairly be estimated as follows.
viz.
AmoHrf Of Commissions on Factoraer 100 900
ADIolalt 81 bubAC SeclU ities $500 900
amount Of Money on hand 1900 900
AfIouat 81 Bank Sock 100000
Anaoant q Shares III tOls Briggs
and T1npites 100000
Pate, say 40 os. to a fa7,a.ly rs
1920 o. SAVED at S1,1Optr
osis 179, 212
Mailing il tie 7gLole. 8 2I227, PIP
Il was shown that the amount Of monev
deposited for safe keeping il the several
banks in Boston. in Iune 1911. s. ,vnnid