Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-01
A ssoRs' NOTICE,
ASSESSORS, orrIcE, No. q, CRY HALL.

-A'-H9'oi'' SAhANH' IN NALL
The Assessors Of the City of Worcester hereby give
notice that their office will be open from the first aahL
he fifteenth day Of June inert inclusive, from a. ~ 10
r. NJ and all persons liable to be taxed in said city are
required to bring in to the Assessors within The time
above specified true lists Of all their polls and estates.
otherwise not exempt from taxation
Your attention is called to the following Sections OF
GeaR Eleven Of the General Statutes of the Common
section 81. Keepers of tayerns and boarding houses,
ana masters and misresses of dwelling houses, shall
upon application of an Assessor in the place where their
house is situated give information of the names of all
persons residing therein and liable be for
lakes Every such keeper, master mistress refusing
TO give such information knowingly giving false in
formation shall forfeit $1,000 for each offence
section y. me assessors SHALL in az cases require
person bringing in such list to make oath that the
true which oath may be administered by either
Section 46. No person shall have an abatement unless
he has Med with the Assessors list subscribed by him.
OF ms estate liable to taxation, and made oath that it
1ul and accurate according his best knowledge and
belief When such list is not filed within the time speci-
from the Judgment of the Assessors shall be ssaned by
the County Commissioners unless they satisfied that
mere was good cause why such list was not seasOnably
When the Assessors of city or town have given no.
tce to the inhabitants thereof 10 bring lists of all
their polls and estates not exempt from TAXATION in ac
cordance with the provisions of the twentysecond sec
they SHALL NOT afterwards abae any part Of the tax
assessed on personal estate to any person who did not
bring in such hist within the time specified there for in
such notice. unless such tax exceeds by more than nil
PER cENTuM the said amount which would have been
assessed to that person on personal estate if he had
sonaby brought in said lists and if said iaA exceeds by
CENTUM the sad amount, The abae-
ment sal he only of the above the said fifty PE
CkNTUhi PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that this shall not
anect any person who show reasonable excuse Tor
not seasonably bringing in said list"
Goods wares Merchandise, or Stock in trade. must he
taken at their fair marketable value on the first av of
May II at such date SAID stock fair average of the
amount held during the twelve months preceding Bot
II the stock has at different times, been of different
values the fair average value of he stock during the
time above designated must be given The return mus
also include, at value asceTtaincd as above d-
reced Goods. Wares, Merchandise which may owned
or held without the Commonwealth. The value of
Goods, Wares, Merchandise, stock in trade CANNOT
pc onset or decreased by any DEBTS due for same OF
by any liabilities whatever
Household furnitee exceeding $1,000 in value includ
ing Library Pictures, atuary and all valuable articles
OF interior decoration Shares Manufacturing Insur-
anee Railroad Mining and other corporations without
the state must be returned at their market the
first day OF May.
Public Stocks, Railroad Bonds, and securities of all
KINDS must lncuie the Stocks, Bonds Notes. other
seeunesot anv foreign nation. any State County,
on the first day Of May.
All Personal Property held by wife or minor child
must he included in the return the husband father
or separate return made as Trustee Guardian.
And whoever does not comply with the above pro-
visions OF the law will NOT be entitled attachments
IN consequence OF any estimates that may be
by the Board OF Assessors, unless the estimate exceeds
by more than 81 per centum, proper valuation.
WAl. l.. CLARK, Assessors
LEVI BARKER, of the
JOSIAH +. HOUGITON, City of Worcester.
~ No Regular Office Hours during the month of
May. dW&Stlel&dJel5 myl