Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-06-14
Notice is hereby given,

sleDuty, az tne CVu''-nVuoc III et0 49,.
aIevan,lria on the third day of June. at
,saroa;mus's Tavern the City of WASH
,sston ON the 4th, 4 at Crawtord's IA
~ Georgetown on the 5th, for the pur-
rose of receiving any information that
NAV be furnished as tothe changes which
may have taken place in the assessaDie
nronerty Of individuals since-the last as
sessmeilt made under the act OF January
9th, 1915, and previous to the ist OF
June, 1916 which information must De
given in writing under the signature OF
the person whose tax may be affected
thereby. These changes extended to,
/. Accessible property omitted to De as
sessed at the preceding assessment, 4
nrcperty that has seascd to be exempt
Ell frem assessment, such as property
belonging to the United States. or a
state, or otherwise exempted, which on
It's transfer becomes assessable. Ali
such property is to be assessed.
Hnt no alteration is to be made in the
previous saluation'ot any real estate IN
yir%le er any Improvement thereon.
9. Transfers OF Real Estate aud Slaves,
according to which an abatement in
the enumerations andya!uatiens OF the
person transferring them viii be made,
and correspondent increase in the
enumera.ions and the valuations al the
person 10 whsm the transfer may be
made.
s. Changes Of residents and non resi-
--s~ Its.
These;changes viii merely require a
ye transfer from the lists OF residents,
non-residents, or vice versa. as the case
may be, of The property in the owner
ship or agency Of which such change
has occurred.
A. The burning or destruction OF houses
or other GSed improvements OF Real
Estate. for which an abatement equal
to the injary arising from these causes
is to be made.
5.sThe exemption of property that has
ceased to be assessable, for which also
am abatement equal to its value Is to
be made.
6. Slaves that have been born, Or have
~ died, or have runaway or have other
wise become useless since the preced-
inn assessment. In these cases changes
IN the preceding valuations are only
To be n.a;le, where the tax chargaable'
10 any person for Slaves would be dl-;
mi,iished BY the valuation on the lstl
dav Of June of all those fexceRting
sucl, as have been obtained by iran fer
then owned by such person, add theI
reduction in the valuation in such e.
vents is to be equal to the diferenceI
between the valuation Of those owned
- en- the lst Of June, 1916. and an abate-
anent equal to such reduction to be
made.
The whole Of these changes are to be
relative to the 1st day Of June. and in all
of them the rates of the valuations made
under the act of january 9th. are as near
as may be to be maintainee, excepting IN
two cases. one where partial aliena-
ton Of real estate shall occur IN which
s case, as the tax, as fixed agreeable to
The preceding assessment is 10 be ap-
portioned among the several parts. ac-
cerd;ng to their respective values on the
tst of June, the proportional value ac-
cording to the preceding valuation. ar
that time Of the part alienated, and OF
the remainder OF the property should be
stated the other respecting Slaves other
than such as are transferred within the
I same collection district which are to be
valued according to their existing value.
ard slaves that have been born, or have
died, or otherwise become useless since
the preceding assessment in which case
the course above stated is to be pursu-
cd.
Any person becoming the owner of a.
Slave by transfer to him from collection
district other than that in which he re-
sides is required, under the penalty often
dollars, to render as aforesaid state-'
ment specifying the age and sex of sucht
slave, who is to be waived according tol
his or her existing value.
I'm all cases in which such information
Of a changein the assessahe property oil
any person, according to the preceding
assessment, shall not be so rectived,i
such person and property will continue
liable TO the whole ax.chargeab!e thereon
agreeable to that assessment.
And notice is further hereby given.
That Twill attend, in person or BY deputy
at the court house in the town of Alex
andria on the goth day ofJane. at Hero
niInus's tavern in the City OF Washing
ton on the Cd July and at Crawford's
Tavern in Georgetown on the 9th, tor
the purpose Of receiving any appeals that