Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-04-16
assessors Notice.

YHNHE Assessors of the town of Bath hereby
give notice to the inhabitants and all other
persons liable to pay in said town, that they
will be in session at the Counting Room T G.
Bailey on Taman's wharf ionl O'Clock to ~ A.
NJ. and from to o'clock P. NJ. on the 18th, 18th,
and l6th, days of May next and longer 10 receive
true and perfect lists conornable 10 aw-J their
polls and Of all their estates both real and PERSONAL
including proprietary estates and estates in tust
which they respectively owned or were DO ssesscd
of on the first day If May 1910.
The following Schedule may serve az form.
Number of Poils Of 81 years and upwards.
Descriptions and just value Of real estate either
in their rig ht or the right Of others, improved
or not improved.
Descriptions and amount of personal estates in
trust or Otherwise including adj monies at interest
more than they pay interest fr, and all other debts
due to them more than ihey are indebted for;
les of all kinds on hand, public securities of all
sorts, all Bank stock, and shares property in any
incorporated company for bridge, turnpike road
or canal, or shares in any other Incorporated com
pany possessing taxable property according 10 the
| just value thereof.
/ Amount Of all goods wares and mercs, ,u,Iize or
any other stock in trade including stock uu,poyed
in inanu'actIlres
Vessels o. all kinds at ffeB,e or abroad with all
their car .roos, stores and appurenances.
All pe as,lre carriages, horses and mIos aud neal
cattle ofone year old and upwards.
The amount OF income from any profession, en-
ployment, or by any annuity or legacy-@ other
source; gained by trading at sea or land and all
other property excepting such as Is exempted by
| law.
The assessors also give notice. that when the as
sessments mpeted, the tax list will be given
| to the Town Collector, and that they shall not BIO
| in session TO hear the complaints OF those who may
consider themselves taxed; and no one has,
| right to claim abatement excepting those wl,o
| hand in their lists under oath; necessarily
prevented from so doing contemplated by law
| extract from which they suhion
Therefore those persons who have heretofore con-
sidered themselves overtaxed are particularly
I uuested to take notice and hand in their lists
cording to law, that their may I've rightly ap-
| portoned and the assessors saved the unpleasant
duty of booming their esta ties.
Extract of Law.
"And if any person or persons shall moi
bring in list of their estates as aforesaid
to the assessors, he, she, or they, SO neg
lecting or refusing, shall not be admitted
to make application to the Court of SEES
sions Cor any abatement of the assessment
so laid on him. her, OF them; unless such
persons shall make it appear to said court
that it was not within the power of him,
her, or them to deliver to the assessors re-
spectively list of his, her or their rateable
estate at the time appointed for that pur-
pose"
The assessors also subjon the 4th sec.
ton of a law Of the State, approved March
g, 1926.
"That when the assessors OF any town,
plantation, Parish, or other religious So
ciety shall, in assessing any tax continue
to assess any real estateto persons TO whom
it was last assessed, such assessment shall
be valid Notwithstanding that the ownership
or occupancy of such estate may now have
been changed; unless previous to the max
ing of such assessments the owner or oc-
cupant to whom the same was assessed tho
last preceding assessment shall give to the
assessors, or one of them, notice stating
: the time when he ceased TO be the owner
, or occupant Of such estate, and the name
; Of the person to whom the same was trans
r ferred or surrendered, and tenant in com
mon, or joint tenant of a freehold or 9th
or estate real or personal, may be consid-
cred the sole owner for the purpose oftaxa-
ton, unless he, she, or they shall make
known to the assessors the amount aud
kind of interest he has in such estate.
i b. c. BAILEY. Assessors
A. WINTER, Bath.
| Bath, April sth, 1S40. 6w2
| CORDAGE.