, 1876-01-06
Demands Of Deputies for Roots,
Shirts, Etc.
Fato Of the Firms that Did NOT
Pacily Them.
Further List Of Comparisons Between
1874 mud 1875.
Tho County Attorney Explains tho Oh
jeot Of His Proposition.


THE oVER.AsSEssED.
Wt!Ar THEY INTEND polk0.
Yesterday "as qu'to busy day among the
over-asncassd mcschants aud business meu gen.
orally OF tho South a,dc. Tloy intond 10 COM
monce proceedings at once tn conrt against the
oncrous husdcu Of "a per cent addol by tho State
l;oarJ, and to rosthe tho payment whorovce The
'oturuB have boon raised BY tho Assessors. III
regard 10 thcso bnun,ora. for most of them woro
nothing else, ovcrs day brings to light
soME NEW nAscALITY.
When tho Asscssor wha hub5 on Fiftt, avenue
he won't into furniahina.goods houss and Do
mhndod silk-eoarfa, shirts, and othar lIttls
cteotosas for making low assessments,
or mono 1T all. 11s wcnt to ono firm,
mud aAked for six shirts saying, "1'll put
you down damned low" Tha Assessor nsYer
got tho sh!rss, and now tho shirt man Ia
"socked 30 badly that ho must needs go to tho
courts Tor rcIiof.
ANOTHER IxsrAHcA
ta that OF tho assessment nado on Massrs. Jnu,os
=. hlcNamara Il Co.. commission boot ani nhoc
merchants At No. AIT Wabaah avenue. Tho Az
soasor deliberately took pair Of boots, and
then can'o back 4 few days aftor and demanded
$40. which Of eourso 10 did not got. and 20 tho
1fn sTcre rewarded by being 90 outra9eously Is.
sossed that they arc compelled to aak 1cIicf from
tho courts It is. said that prominent
city ollicor visited Boms Ut his fEienua
heforo tho nesctsmeut WAS made Oh
The South Sids, and told tho.n that ho would
Introduce thom to the ARucEaor and there would
bo no turthcr trouble. This may account for 30
many nauoa being omitted entirely from tho
personal.tax list tlis year.
ANOTHER alAMEFuL PROCEEDING
ls said 70 hhva taken paco on tho part Of . MEM
1cr OF tho Legislature from tho bridgeport Dis
trct. 1t ID nn4artcd that be- In company with
another city Official vlhltod certain Arms aud for
reconsideration had than oither not asassaod at
a!a or very low. This sesn,s very plausible from
tho TACT tlat aomc or tho most prominent hoslscs
uenr p1oportionAtely With tho smaller oues
aud como not ut GlI. ThoTo sfe about
U, QUO names omitted from tho ta1-list this wear,
no far as personal tax ia concerned, something
mover hofore known; md this on tho South SiIo
atouo.
Thoro ean bo no uBo in excuang this shameless
state Of atIairn. There IL no tten,i ing 1t that
eono Ut tho Deputy AsscEaorB lRyo nude them.
aud
1MNED,ArE ACTION suou1p nE TAKEN
ny tho cltizous robbed by thom. to havo them ia-
d'ctod. Thcy can easily pe convicted Of malfeax-
acco III oieo and perjury, II t4o evidence is only
forthcoming. It lB to tho interest OF tho tax
pasois hereafter to eco thht these unmltIga,ed
get tasto OF tho jastlco Which
should DO tneted ont to them. Among some OF
'lunAo of Nowburgcr Il Co.. OIL Randolph street.
NJ AbscBa6r ever cano near the commission
Ilrm Of Il. II. blnyer i Co., No. 145 Fifth ave.
nuc yet tloy "erc assossed for $4,000.
COMPARISONS
arc generally considered odious. but hero ia an
ollur list, gathered for the information OF TnE
TRIBUNE re2detB. taken from tho books Of 1874
AUD 1876: