Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-06-07
Notice is hereby given,

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THAT 4 will attend in person or byls
;enaty. al the court-house in the town OF
Alexandria on the third day of June. at
iisron;musss Taverninthe CITY of Wash S
!. 5ton on the 4th.. & at Crawtord's iaT
IA Georgetown on the 5th. for the pur-
pose Of receiving any Information thatl
nay be furnished as tothe changes wh,chIs
may have taken place in the assessaoseI
property ofindv,,luals since the 'asI as
lsessment AIDE under the act Of January
Oh. 1915, and previous TO the ISL on
June, 1916; whichinfornation must Del
given in writing under the SIGNATURE %,
the ipersan whose tax may be aaecteul
thereby. These changes extended 10,
Assessable property omitted to De as
sssss,, af the preceding assessment, \ /
vro-,srty that has seased to be exempt-
ed from assessment, such as property
heIopaine to the United States, or al
stste. or otherwise exempted, which on
~ transfer becomes assessabie. All
such uroperty is now to be assessed.
Buf no alteration is to be made In the
preyiious valuation Of any real estatein
virtue of any improvement thereon.
Q Transfers OF Real Estate ard Slaves
according 10 which an abatement IN
the enamerat;ons and valuations OF the
persca transferring them Wilde made,
and a correspondent increase IN the
pnumesatiens and the valuations 81 the
t,arson 10 when the transfer may De
made.
s. Changes Of residents and non rest
Ieots.
These changes viii merely require a
transfer from the lists ct resH'ents,
,no,,-resiaents, or vice versa, as TIE case
NAV be. OF the property - the owner 1
shin OF agency OF which such a chahge
has. occnr ed.
q. The burning or destructiah OF houses
or other Fixed improvements OF Real
Estate. for which IN abstelaent equal
to the, injury arising rom these causes
IL. to be made.
s.'Ihe exemption Of propsrty that has
ceased to be assessable, ron which also
an abatement equal to its value IS to-
be made.
a. Slaves that have been born. OK have
died. or have runaway or have other-I
wise become useless since the preced-
suc assessment. In these cases changes
in tie preceding valuations gre only
lobe made, where the tax caarSea5ie
any aersou sor Slaves would be dr.
n,;nisaed by the valuation on the LIST;
aay CT June OF all those excePtlngI
suchas haze been obtained by eran'ier ii
t,,,.n owned bY. such person, aud tneI
reduction in the valuation IN such e.
vents IS to be equal to the diaerenceI
sbetwsen the valuation Of those owRed
IN the ist of June, 1916, indian ahate,
meat equal 20 such reduction to bel
made.
The whole Of these changes are to De
relative to the lst day of5uae, and 10 all
Of them the rates of the valuations made
under the act Of January 9Th. are as near
as ma ybe to be maintained, excepting IN
two cases, one where partial aiienas,
ton of real estate shall occur il, which
case, as tie tax, as fixed agreeable to
the preceding assessment is 10 be ap-
portionesi among tie several parts, ac-
cording % their respective values on thel
ist ot Jsae, the proportional value &C.
eofdinsfto the preceding valuation, at
; that tue Of the part alienated, and of
the.rcsaaiader o. the property should be
stated; the ether respecting Slaves ether
than ssich as are transferred within the $
saae G. Election district, which are to be
valued according to their existing saiue,
and slaves that have been born. or have !
died, or otherwise become useless since
the preceding assessment, IN winch case
the course ABOVE stated is to be pursu-
ed.
Any person becoming the owner OF a
Slave 'bS transfer to sim from COLLECTION
district other than that IN which he re-
sides is required, under the penalty OF ten
dollars. To render as Aforesaid state--tS
nsent specifying the age and sex OF such
slare, who is to be waived according toI
his or her existing value.
In all cases IN which such informationl
of change in the asSessable property OF
any person. according to the preceding
assessment. shall not be SO received,
such .personsand property will continue
liable to the whole tax chargeable thereon S
agreeable to that assessment.
And notice is further hereby given,
That will attend, in person or by deputy
Aat the court house in the town of Alex
tndria on the 2eth day of june, at Here
Smus's tavern in the City OF Washing {
tda on the Cd July and at Crawford'si
TTern in Georgetown on the 9th, tori
thepurpese of receiving any appeals that