Daily Republican., 1880-03-01
rne Levy court tomorrow.

INV ACvy NVuHt
The Levy Court will commence III
March term TO- morrow, and in all proba
bility it will be met at the start with 1
: request to make some arrangements by
which the assessment Of voters can b
accomplished without the loss Of much
: valuable time, and with the least trou.
BILE to all-partiss concerned. There ar'
abe ut two thousand people in New Gas
, tie County who are not assessed, but
out Of this number II is not likely more
than twelve hundred will come before
the Levy Court to get assessed. But II
Twill require considerable time to assess
even this number, and therefore 1t is
hoped that the Levy Court will desig
nate certain days -2on which the un-
assessed Of the respective Hundreds can
lappearibefore the court and have their
names put upon the lists. There are
probably about twelve hundred in Will
mington not assessed out of which eight
hundred will probably come before the
court. This is more. than can be as
sessed in one day, and as it would be
useless expense and besides waste
OF time for these unassessed persona to
go to New Castle more than one day, we
would suggest that the Levy Court ap-
point two days for Wilmington alone, all
in the Southern Assessors distri i
psariag one day and all in the North
ern district another day. As there ap-
pears to have been a tolerably full as
sessment made of Brandywine, Chris
tiana, Mill Creek, New Castle, White
Clay. Creek, Red Lion and Pencader,
one day might answer for the assess
ment Of all who may have been omit
ted in those Hundreds. Another day
could be allowed for St. Georges Hun
dred where there appears to have been
the most omissions, and fifth allotted
to Appoquinimink and Blackbird would
finish up the county. This would take
just five days, one week Of the working
time of the Levy Court. II some such
an arrangement is not made the Levy
Court is liable to be annoyed every day
during its:!session, and besides this,
those attending thel court for the pur- {
pose Of getting. assessed may be put to {
a great deal Of trouble and expense. !
We are not amongst those who have
lost confidence in our Levy Court and
believe that it is their purpose to SO act
that obstacles will be placed in the I
way Of getting assessed. We have no II
reason yet for entertaining any such t
opinion. No doubt had the Levy Court $
been requested during its February i Il
sitting to have made the arrangements a
We have suggested, it would have sit I
week during the iptermission between o
he February and March sessions for "
he purpose of affording an opportuni- t
y for all persons who have been omit Il
ed, to get assessed; but the time slip Ii
ped by, The request was not made and b
.he Levy Court adjourned. 1t is yet 1
70 be shown by the action of the mem 8
bers of the Levy Court whether parti. r
ian considerations will influence them D
against allowing facilities whereby a g
ull assessment can be made. These il
welve or fifteen hundred men who will II
'ppear before them to get assessed are o
qualified to he voters. They want to v
70 assessed and to enjoy the full meas b.
Ire of citizenship, By refusing to as. To
ess them the members of the Lew k
'ourt outside Of the danger Of prosecu- m
ions in the United States District ~ ~
'ourt would keep the county out of n,
eceiving some two thousand dollars in 40
axes which'the real estate owners of the ra
ounty would have to make up even ~ ~
ually by an increase of the rate of tax ~
tion. We do not think the Levy Court OF
ill refuse full assessment of all WIN Al
re entitled TO bs assessed-indeed It er
annot refuse without violation OF al
ne obligations tile members have taken. 90
Iowever as the time is at hand for the "a
'urt to meet We shall soon know the ia 10
'urse it intends to pursue and until ed
9 are fully convinced that it will not tn
0 its full duty in the assessment of oe
oters We will withhold censure. OIL