Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1822-03-06

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days. Suchi. the DESCRIPTION ofthe board
iny houses in Alexandra % ,ha. this item
Of $40 is improperly cluged,
There are 238 horses 10 town, and il 10
supposed by tie disfrp chisement party
that there are about double that number 10
the country part OF the county. am as
sured by gentleman who knows all the
farms ia the country pa OF the county,
that there are 10 il not a. the outside more
than 9U0. Here then is an overcharge of
276 horses which at I3a cents, makes DIT.
- An Alexandrian" states that there are
Al riding carriages g. harnesses in town,
and ten In the country, and taxes them at
DIS SO cts. My second letter enumerat-
ed AZ two wheel carriages, consisting Of
drays and curtis, and sevsn or eight gigs.
Now is every dray and cart in town worth
200 dollars, the price set by San Alexan-
driaD" on each OF his riding carriages 2
Admitting that he is correct 10 supposing
that there are ten two wheel carriages in
the country par: of the ounty, this number
added TO til. ~ in town will make 81, and
again assert that uader the law Of Virgil
mia, SO cents is the CHEST tax that can be
imposed on each of these carriages. |
have before said, aud Isay 80 again, that
there are ON the assessors books, only "a
four wheel carriages. As they are not Of
6ciaIly valued, estimated them at D300
each, and stated the tax on that account
to be Dl2O. IAN AlexandriaR" enumer-
ates five stage wagons and two phGtons
valued each at DaO0, the tax on which is
one dollar and fifty tents, would be DIE
40 cents; rs riding carriages of the value
of D300 each, the tax on them of DIS each
would be D233." There seems at FIRST
sight in this last clause a palpable arith-
meticaI errour. Five times twenty FIVE is
certainly not two hundred and thirty three.
But presume that the errour is typogra-
phcal, and that the writer meant the sum
of 933 dollars y the aggregate of bis D95
81 cents, e dollars and fifty cents, and
1875 dollars. The amount of these three
sums is however, only 223 dolls, 20 there
is clear errour at Do in this particular.
Then if Dl2O the tax on % four wheel
carriages. as stated by me, be added to
the tax of D23 50 cents for ~ two wheel
carriages 10 town, and to the tax OF Dis
on ten two wheel carriages in the country,
the amount will be dag SO cts. Deduct
this from Da33, there will remain D84
30 cts. as An over charge in the article OF
carriages.
He has correctly stated the taxes on The
broker and vendue master at ID 60. O.
mitteG the tax on The first through belief
that there was no broker in town, and the
omission in the other case was inadyert-
ent.
Leaving unexamined for the present, and
and therefore adm itting, his item on the
subject of taxes on law process, which |
reserve as a subject Of separate investiga-
writer's errours in detail and which be has
carried into bis recapitulation. The item
of D37o as tax on wholesale stores is OBJ
viously clerical or biographies mis-
take. Restoring the true entry of D37s0,
the amount Of the whole will be Dl6,209
and 80 cts. instead of Die ,229 and SO cts.
as stated by "An Alexandrian.'
Taking the estimate Of Ule,2O9 SO cts.
will iadd together The errours which |
have stated in his separate items and de-
duct their sum from the above amount.
Errour in the estimate of the
annual value oil town property D2l63 Sd
Errour in the estimate OF land
10 the country part OF the coun-
ty 900
Errour in the estimate Of
slaves 10 90
Erour in The estimate of re-
tail stores 1920
Errour in the estimate OF Ia
verns 1852
Erruur in the whole item a.
bout boarding houses $40
Errour in the estimate of hor-
SeS 27
Errour in the carriage item ID so
1897 81
From $4,000 S3
Deduct amount of errours 1897 ca
Balance SlO,sl2 10
If from this sum be taken the taxes not
included in my first estimate, the residue
will coincide with it. | will now add an
amended estimate.
TOWN.
Tax on houses g. lots in town tSl53e 20
Tax on 6S wholesale mer-
chants $3.50
Tax on ia retail merchants $3.50
Tax on 88l slaves 466 90
Tax on "a four wheel carriages 100
Tax on 23S horses 80 Is
Tax on AZ two wheel carriages e 50
Tax on o. taverns 576
Tax on vendue master 20
Tax on broker 90
DS937 &c