The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-09-28
PAYMENT OF PERSONAL TAXES.

fAI MENI UE fEhoONAL AAACS'
New York Property Owners Responding
to the Municipal Call for the Sfnews
OF War-SI30,OOO for the Pubic
Treasury.
Yesterday was the first day for the payment OF
the State, county and city taxes on PERSONAL
estate for the year 1879. Bills are made out IN
favor OF the Supervisors OF the city and county.
The tax includes all assessments except Tor
real estate and on bank stock. and embraces all
Incorporated manufacturing, insurance, railroad,
steamboat and other companies doing business
In the county, as well as assessments upon lnd-
viduals for all personal property and securities
The office OF the Receiver Is on the first floor oil the
brown stone building In the City Hall Park, where
taxes are payab from eight O'Clock in the morn
ing till two in the afternoon. Last year the tax on
bank stock was made payable on the same day as
other personal taxes. This year the bank Textbook
Is not ready, and the collection ID delayed for few
days. There was received yesterday for personal
taxes, exclusive OF the tax on bank capital
about $l3O0o0 against $4,000 last year
including the bank assessments. This
prompt payment OF the tax shows that
the great body of taxpayers have not been pinched
by the Wall street close communion panic. Those
who pay this tax before the LIST day Of November
secure reduction OF their assessment equal to the
interest on the amount from the date OF payment
TO the lst day OF December, At the rate OF seven
per cent per annum. If payment Is not made prior
to the LIST OF December one per cent Is added to the
tax, and on the 10th OF December another one per
cent, by way Of penalty for default. Had the bank
tax also been receivable yesterday, no doubt the
first days payments would have uly equalled
those oil the first day last year.
TAXATION FIGURES
The total valuation OF property in the city as
assessed Tor taxation for the year 1873 Isl
Real estate $685. $50
Personal estate belonging TO 70,
Personal Estate belonging to non,
sh lsr.asass in banks 7,osss
The amount to be raised by tax was dxea by
the Board Of Supervisors on the 10Th Sep o,o oo -
Being eOe of STATE STAT sG7$ss %
For city la0siiS s.
Estimated deficiency in product
---S2s Do, 400 81
The rate of taxation Tor the year is IN per cent.
Some of the largest items OF the city and county
expenditures are thus estimated Interest on
county debt. s2,5OO,OOo; interest on city debt
lums, reiOrmatOries and charitable Institutions
$780, $50; Department of Charities and Corrections,
$500, 900; department Of Pubic works 81 44s, 500;
Fire Department, 81, 264,900; Health Department,
s243,sls 10, and Department OF Public Parks
S495, 600.
Though the days receipts amounted to large
figure there was no crowd in the Office In spite OF
the TACT tnat large portion Ol the room was OCCu-
pied by artisans employed in improving the office
furnishing. Gentlemen came In singly or In knots
Of two or three, and the system OF the office en-
ables the payment to be made with great celebrity
and precision. The bank tax will be called for IN
q few days.
The Tax BoOks-Have They Been Tam
pered Withg-Aldermen McCaEerty and
Koch Declare That They Have Been
Altered.
Ex-Alderman Pinckney and his clerical force
have completed the tax books OF the First, Second,
Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth Tenth, Eleventh,
Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, seventeenth,
Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-SecOnd wards.
While looking over the Sixteenth ward book
yesterday, Aldermen Koch and McCaTerty dis
covered that an entire column OF figures repre-
senting the valuations Of the west side of Eighth
avenue, from Twentythird to Twenty-sixth
street, had been erased and new figures
written over the erasures. They also found
erasures and changes elsewhere, and naturally
charged that they had been tempered with by
some one. The Clerk, General Plnckney, estab
shed the fact that the changes were made in the
Tax commissioners Of11ce and not while III his
custody. Mr. McCafYerty says he Is convinced that
there has been fraud practised, az the valuations
upon the west side of Eighth avenue are nearly all
below 49, coo per house, while poor tenement houses
on First avenue, above F1ty-ninth street. are
placed at an average valuation OF $4,000, and
when the books are completed he says he expects
to prove that they have been tempered with.
Among the erasures Is the Grand Opera House,
This is given as one instance OF fraudulent valu-
alton.