Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-05-27
Notice is hereby given,

,Yenpty. at the court house in the town oil
Alexandria on the third day of June, at
Heronirnus's Tavern IN the City OF Wash.
;nston on the 4th, & at Crawtord's Ia
IN Georpetown on the 5th, for the pur-
mise Of receiving any Information tnatI
NAV he furnished as tothe changes whicnI
may have taken place in the assessaDiej
property Of individuals since the last as
ssssme,lt made under the act OF January Z
OH 1915. and previous to the lss OF
I'D s. 1915 : which information must De
s;yso I've, IN writing under the signature OF
AZ neyson whose fax may be affected
,hersby. These changes extended to,
! Accessible property omitted to DC as
sessed at the preceding assessment, q
nroDerty that has sease,l to be exempt
"A from assessment, such as property
belonging to the United States, or a
state, or otherwise exempted, winch on IN
;ts transfer becomes assessabie, All
sncb property is now to be assessed.
But no alteration is to be made IN the
preyious valuation of any real estate 10
virtue of any Improvement tilsreon.
Transfers OF Real Estate and slaves
according to which an abatement IN
the enumerations and valuations OF inc
narssn transferring them will be niade'
and q correspondent increase IN inc
snumerations and the valuations 81 the
person 10 when the transfer may De
made
. Changes of residents and non resi-
dents.
Tbesp changes will merely require q
transfer from the lists Of residents,
non-residents, or vice versa, as the case
NAV be, OF the property in the owner
ship or agency of which such change
I has occurred.
q. The burning or destruction OF houses ]
or other fixed improvements of Real
Estate, for which an abateaent equal
to the injury arising from these causes
Is TO be made.
D The exemption of property that has
ceased to be assessable, for winch also
an abatement equal to its value IS TO
be made.
s Slaves that have been berns or have
died. or have runaway or have other
wise become useless since the preced-
mo assessment. Ia these cases changes
in the preceding valuations are only
to be made, where the tax chargeableI
to any person for Slaves would be d.
.n;pished by the valuation on the lsti
day Of June of all those TexcePtine|
suchas have Seen obtained By Transient
shen owned BY such person, and theI
reduction in The valuation in such e.
vents is to be equal to the dlferenceI
between the valuation of those ownedI
on the lst Of June, 1916, and an abate-
ment equal to such reduction to bel
made.
The whole Of these changes are to bel
fnlasive to the 1st day Of June, and in all
of them the rates Of the valuations madet
under the actof January 9Th. are as near
as NAV be to be maintained, excepting inI
two cases, one where partial aliena-
hon of real estate shall occur In which,
case, as the tax, as fixed agreeable toI
the preceding assessment is 10 be ap-I
portioned among the several parts. ac-
cord;ng to their respective values on theI
ist a Juas, the proportional value ac-l
corainS to The preceding valuation, att
that tune of the part alienated. and oil
the remainder Of the property should bel
stated the other respecting Slaves othert
than such as are transferred within the!
same collection district, which are TO bel
valued according to their existing value,
and slaves that have been born, or have
died, or otherwise become useless sincet
The precedipssassessment, in which easel
the course above stated is to be pursu-
ed.
ANY person becoming the ewner Of a.
Slave by transfer to him from a collection
district ether than that in which he re-
sides is required, under the penalty often
dollars, to render as Aforesaid a state
ment specifying the age and sex Of such
slave, who is to be Waived according toI
his or her existing value.
fnal casts in which such information
of . chansein the assessable property of
anY person, according to the preceding
assessment, shall not be so received,
such person and property viii continual
liable to tbs whole tax chargeable thereenl
agreeable to that assessment.
Aud notice is further hereby given,
That Twill attend, in person or by deputy
at tie court house in the town of Alex
andria 90 the 2eth day of June, at Hero
nimus's tavern in the City of Washing
ton on the I'd July and at Crawforl's|
Tavern IN Georgetown on the 6;li, Ios