The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-10

airy, the increase or decrease being too
slight TO DC noticed.
The debt of the town of Rutland is
nearly four times--tbree and three-quar-
ters-as much as her grand list. Mount
Tabor and Sherburne each owe three times
the amount of their respective grand lists.
The debt Of Pit,sford is, next to Rutland,
the largest in the county, being Sl3, 401, or
thirty per cent more than the grand list,
Then comes Fair Haven with debt of six
thousand dollars, exceeding her grand list
by ten per cent; Castlcton 80 ,276, or more
than fifty per cent. of the grand list; Poult-
ney 80, 2j2 about twenty per cent. of the
grand list; Shrewsbury $4,000, or fifty per
cent. of the list; Pawlet S1,73S.27, about
one-third of the amount of the list; Chit
tcnden Sl,725, seventy per cent. of the
grand list; Middletown $1,544 20, about
seventy per cent; Clarendon $500, o
triile over twenty-five per cent; Walling-
ford 1900, less than twenty per cent. 4;
Sudbury 81 900, about fifty per cent; the
debt of the other towns ranging under one
thousand dollars.
Fair Haven, Mendon, Mount Tabor and
Sherburne voted a tax of one hundred cents
on the dollars each Mount Holly sixty-fve
cents Castleton. Chittendcn and Shrews-
bury sixty cents Middletown, Rutland
and Sudbury fifty cents Wallingford
forty-fve cent? Pttsfeld forty cents ;
Wells, Poultney, Pittsfeld, Pittsford,
Hubbardton, Dandy and Clarendon thirty
cents Pawlet and Brandon twenty-five
cents Benson eighteen cents and West
Haven fifteen cents. The take. of Men.
don, Middletown, Piltsfield Sherburne,
Sudbury, Wells and West Haven are the
same as last year; those of Castleton
Dandy, Fair Haven, Hubbardton, Poult.
ney and Wallingford have been increased
while those of the other towns have beer
materially decreased.
| 1t is little curious TO note that while
| Rutland increased her Indebtedness some
| fifteen thousand dollars, she decreased hei
tax some fifty per cent-tho largest pro-
portionate decrease of any town in the
county, save Brandon which entirely paid
her Indebtedness during the year-tht
| other towns, where the Indebtedness hat
increased, taxed themselves proportionatc.
| ly. Thus Casileton increased her tax from
| iifty-fve 70 sixty cents Dandy from
twenty five to thirty; Poultney from
twenty TO thirty and Wallingford from
thirty 70 forty-fivc. Moreover, Shrews.
| bury, which reduced its indebtedness.
seventy per cent, reduced. its tax only
twenty per cent; and Clarendon, which
paid quarter OF its debt, votes tax Of
only five cents Oh the dollar less than las
year.
The figures show that, outside of Rut
land, the county is ina healthy financia
condition; that the peoRe have Just hor
ror of debt, land are striving TO get out of it
that they are retrenching and practlcnl
the strictest economy and that where
| from unforeseen causes, their expenses hav.
| been such as TO increase the indebtedness
they cheerfully tax themselves sufficiently
to prevent further increase. The con
trast is anything but favorable tor Rutland
and it must be rather CALLING TO our prid'
to see such towns as Mendon and Sher
burne taxing themselves one hundred cent
on the dollar--the latter, with its highway
tax, paying one hundred and fifty cents
80 that they may free themselves from
constantly increasing since 1870, anC
which has increased nearly fifteen thou
sand dollars during the past year, sit dowr
quietly with tax of half that amount.