Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-09-05
District Government, Aer.sr..

| sleclal assessments, up to o'clock to-day was
| 1854. aggregatlDg In amount 1874, O96 50.
| $3.50 checks have been drawn by Mr.. Dodge
10 me return OF excessive water rents collected
OF water ta tai amount thus far repaid
The decision OF Judge Bundy. OF the Police
Court, IN relation to the dog license, seems t.
nave nad the erect OF bringing up the deltn
quents. Sixty dog tags were disposed OF by the
collector to- day, making In all for this license
The Commissioners have accepted the ofre,
12 and the east half of subdivision lot D. If
square SID, for the sum Of $3.50, to add to thu
lot on which is to be erected the Lau itzer
| school building.
The District Commissioners have received ar
lnvitation from the Board OF Fire Commission.
ers TO attend the opening proceedings OF the
National Nate ma Convention Of Fire Engineers, at Ma
sonic Temple, in this city, at 10 O'Clock "a. or
the 9th instant, and that one OF the District
commissioners deliver the customary address
tsa welcome h TO the delegates usually made by
where like conventions have heretofore arscm.
The The District Commissioners have issued an
| oIuer "Inat all papers connected with claims
OF any character against the District and re-
| qulrlDg Authorization by q notary public or
us n; OF me peace, must be authenticated by
laimant's side Of the case"
| ~ =, COMMITTEE OF MARKET DEALERS
IA IN the center Market-Messrs. Bradley, Cost
! Boyd, Smithers, Eberly, Holster, Fellows, kiss,
| ner, Webb, Gray, and Simmacher-waifed on
the District commissioners In relation to the
nia Ina, OF licenses tax required OF them They
sIa'eo mat when they rented their stalls from
me Market company 1t was With the express
understanding that If they paid their bonus and
aLLuai rental they We're to be relieved OF ali
cnalges ior license gas water, &c. the Market
tiles; that now they are called upOn to nav in
aodtlon to their obligations to the Market com
tbagS license 10 the District. At the same time
Iney say mat numerous hucksters are allowed to
Duy ana sell produce and such articles as they
please outside the precincts OF the market
Mnnoat either rent or license, On the false pre-
teLCe Oh peing producers, thus damaging their
business greatly. They ask that the District do
not press the payment OF this license until a
e esone can 9e tested In the courts The commits
siOheIS alter 1ull hearing stated that they
would rerer the subject to the Attorney for the
District Tor his opinion, until which time moth.
Ing snould oe done In the way of prosecutions
AN INTERESTING TAX CASE
AN attorney submits for client a statement
70 the District Commissioners Of facts and legal
inquiries to the effect that certain lot Of
poratton OF Washington, for the general taxes
for 1866, to party who received certificate Of
TAX SAFE from the corporation. This certificate
cate not having been redeemed within the time
prescribed by law, the corporation conveyed
me lot, Dy deed, the 10th day of July, 1862 to
attorneys client. The same lot was again sold
Tor taxes, June q, 1869, by the corporation, and
was redeemed. It was again sold for taxes on
Inc l4n June, 1870, and has not been redeemed
me District now demands OF this client, by
certain tax bills, the payment Of the general
taxes !or 1864. and pump-tax levied Sep
s aanast,so a. o 1864: Thus there were three
ana The pump-tax was due and unpaid, and a
period OF fifteen years intervening between the
o ga OF the levy and assessment of the taxes
1was it not the official duty of the authorities
at the'time the taxes of 1854 were levied and
assessed IN advertising for the collection OF the
pump taxi" The 7th section of the act of Con.
gress, approved May II, 1s4s, is quoted: THAT
aeal property on which one or more years taxes
are are que Ga ana unpaid, or on which any special
co ay 0e ~ 70 Pay tax with all entered
a a19e, corporation" he Contends that having
tax TO remain unpaid until the present time.
and not having elected to advertise the same in
aeSo, I9aI tney were required to include In the
1857, for the back taxes Second, "are the Dis.
trict authorities not now estopped from de-
manding or collecting these taxes OF
o%iss,oGy matter tie n pa namely their
taxes against the lot, thus leading purchasers
az SAID sale to infer that no other taxes but
those advertised had become due and remained
tnhn UNI Third upon what principal OF law can
the ministerial officers OF the late corporation.
A lapse OF fifteen years to the present time has
occurred, ana yet demand for the payment OF
assembly OF Maryland prescribing Certain iimi.
tatioDs to state accounts of three years Apply
10 the municipal corporation OF Washington as
tS maividuals' In reply, MI Riddle 60 whom
states that "the case is one not free from difi.
Guilty, yet was it the only one that could arise
IN which similar facts were involved. he should
De prepared TO suggest summary disposition
of It," He thinks Sit was the duty OF the cor.
porat1on government to have sold the property
i ior the taxes OF 1864. Not doing this was a
by, lose the right to enforce the tax? Has a
subsequent purchaser when he examined the
title the right to presume that the officers did
was relieved from examining the record back
OF q tex sale? II be was not obliged to 20 back
OF that 1t must be because, as to him, the tax Is
the circumstances involved In the s case i am am
not prepared to take the responsibility Of an
sWering the questions. / think the matter
should be referred to the court"
SEWER PIPES,
IN response 10 the note from Mr.. L. r. futile,
secretary and treasurer Potomac Terra Gotta
company, complaining that plumbers can buy
property yards In making sewer connections
the commissioners inform him that plumbers
are permitted to purchase wherever they please
connection pipes from the main sewers. All
material like 10 inch branch pipe or the juno
ton blocks for brick sewers which are to enter
required to be purchased from the District.
The object OF this Is, of course, to protect the
main eewers from the Introduction OF inferior
material.
BUILDING PERMITS
issued by Inspector Entwisle:-P. W. Brown
Ing, repair brick, 1923 Missouri avenue; $500
Peter Hughes, repair frame, 18th, between C
street and Massachusetts avenue southeast;
$780,. Frank Haggerty, repair brick, Pennsyl-
Van1a avenue, between 18th ana 18th streets
northwest, $3.50. Alfred c. Jarvis, repair BRICK
413 and 415 9Th street southwest; $4,000. Phillip
Thomas, construct q two. story brick dwelling
Sd, between and streets northwest; 81 400
Evening Star Publishing Company, repair brick
building corner nth street and Pennsylvania
avenue northwest, $500. James Killian, repair
brick 1908 F street northwest; $500. G. I. Han,
repair brick, 14th and u streets northwest; $500.
+. q: Willett, construct three-story brick
dwelling, Connecticut avenue, between NJ ana
N streets northwest; $1,000. Wtllford Adds,
construct twO-st0ry brick dwelling, A, be-
tween 9Th and It'll streets southeast; $500. Kate
Carthy, repair frame, $40 Fl street northeast:
$50. Solomon slower, construct q tWo-story
dwelling, alley, between 21st and 22d and II and
l streets; $500. Robert Earl, construct three
three-story brick dwellings, corner I and 2lst
streets northwest; $7,060. Franklin Insurance
Company, repair brick, 912 10Th street north
west; 500 T. +. McCauley, construct three
story dwelling, B and Sd street sontheast S. 600.
TIE OOURfS.